San Joaquin Valley

The San Joaquin Valley is the most productive agricultural region in the state, and includes the delta region of the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers as well as the southern most counties of the Great Central Valley of California.

The northern part of the region has temperate winters and warm or hot summers. The southern area usually has little rainfall and few frosts during the winter, and has warm to hot summers.

A great variety of crops are produced here including fruits and nuts (apples, apricots, cherries, citrus, figs, wine, raisin and table grapes, kiwifruit, almonds, pistachios and walnuts), vegetables (asparagus, cucumbers, onions, fresh market and processing tomatoes and melons), field crops (alfalfa hay, dry beans, cotton, oats, sweet potatoes and wheat), and livestock products (cattle and calves, chickens and eggs, honey, milk, sheep and lambs and turkeys).