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STORY ANGLES - Local Impact Focus: Highlights how policies, developments, or events affect Kern County residents, businesses, and industries. - Economic and Market Implications: Frequently explores financial or operational impacts on agriculture, energy, and commerce sectors.

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Sep 30, 2026
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Jul 6, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · JOHN COX jcox@bakersfield.com

    New crop report illustrates big changes in local ag (opens the original)

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    Local growers harvested 4% less farmland last year, and Kern’s top export destination dropped to 10th place, but on a positive note, the county’s top five crops took in more than $1 billion each for the first time. Those were the among the biggest takeaways in a report released Tuesday by the Kern County Ag Commissioner’s Office, which estimated the region’s bounty, as measured by farmers’ gross receipts, climbed 12% to top $8.9 billion, not including expenses. Sorry, there are no rece

  2. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · JOHN COX jcox@bakersfield.com

    Farm groups ask Newsom not to sign farmworker wage bill (opens the original)

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    State agriculture leaders are making a final push to defeat a farmworker wage bill awaiting the governor’s signature. The California Farm Bureau issued an action alert last week asking its supporters to send a note to Gov. Gavin Newsom opposing Assembly Bill 2646, which would raise the hourly pay to farmworkers in the state — guest workers as well as those based in the state — to $19.75 per hour. Sorry, there are no recent results for popular videos.

  3. Article · Sep 19, 2026 · JOHN COX jcox@bakersfield.com

    State adopts new rules protecting valley's groundwater from nitrates in dairy manure (opens the original)

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    State regulators took a big step forward in their longstanding efforts to protect Central Valley groundwater from nitrate pollution with the approval this week of new rules for how the region’s dairies apply manure to soil. The regulations adopted Tuesday by the State Water Resources Control Board call for gradually reducing the amount of manure dairies spread while also increasing local nitrogen monitoring. Eventually, dairies will be expected to send their manure to farms elsewhere for limit

  4. Article · Sep 18, 2026 · JOHN COX jcox@bakersfield.com

    New apartment community will open final phase of Bolthouse Properties' work in Seven Oaks (opens the original)

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    New life is coming to one of Bakersfield’s best-known upscale neighborhoods. But the debut of one of Kern County’s largest rental communities also means the end is finally coming into view for a project that promises to transform the city’s southwest. Fuller Apartment Homes Inc. says pre-leasing work has begun at Park Center at Seven Oaks, a phased development planned to offer resort-style living at 520 units near White Lane and Allen Road. The rental community will welcome its first resid

  5. Article · Sep 17, 2026 · JOHN COX jcox@bakersfield.com

    Ross agrees to invest $500M in SE Bakersfield (opens the original)

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    A major national retailer has agreed to spend a half-billion dollars to build and operate a processing and distribution center in a part of Bakersfield unaccustomed to such investment. Ross Stores Inc. will locate the 1.75 million-square-foot facility on 160 acres near the corner of East Belle Terrace and Mt. Vernon Avenue in southeast Bakersfield, according a news release Wednesday from City Hall. Sorry, there are no recent results for popular videos.

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