“Stay out of our way. Let us do our job,” is the resounding message from a third-generation farmer in central California concerning what he says is the state’s excessive regulation of farming.
While water is a necessity in agriculture, California’s policies are making it increasingly harder for farmers to make use of it to produce crops to feed the state, according to Sohan Samran, a farmer from Madera County, located in the eastern San Joaquin Valley.