By Bob West
California’s farmers continue making crop protection applications at a much greater rate than in previous years, according to data published by Meister Media’s PURE Intel+™ platform. The initial publication of application data for January – April 2024 shows the following strong numbers:
- Treated acreage 18% greater than the same period in 2023
- 14% more applications made than in the same period 2023
- A 4% increase in the number of growers reporting having made an application by the end of April
Tremendous Spring conditions have clearly enabled farmers to take advantage of the replenished water supplies as the data shows more farms treating more sites early in the year. California farmers have reported 22.9 million treated acres of crop protection applications in the first four months of 2024, which is the highest amount at the end of April since 2020.
Bob West is the Direct of Meister Media’s data business. For more information about this data or for more details about Meister’s PURE Intel+ and PURE Intel+ PCA products, contact him at 440-602-9129 or [email protected].
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About PURE Intel
Meister Media’s PURE Intel platform offers subscribers comprehensive insights into California’s specialty agriculture market by aggregating monthly crop protection product application data from approximately 20,000 California farms and providing that data through a user-friendly, web-based platform that enables subscribers to customize their data queries.