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California Agricultural Production Statistics has a link to county data.
Summary of County Agricultural Commissioners Reports
County production data. Historical data can be had from these hard copy books in the library:
Contact Information for California County Agricultural Commissioners and Sealers. Includes links to websites. Most of the Ag Commissioners websites have past and current crop reports (crop reports often include livestock).
National Agricultural Statistics Service has a California page.; also see Calfornia Agricultural Statistics (Annual Publication) and also see Agricultural Quick Stats which has searchable county data.
The 2012 Census of Agriculture has Country Level Data for California ; and a version of Quick Stats (limited to Census data).
California Quickfacts from the Census Bureau
Detailed demographics by county is available.
| Western Regional Climate Center Both current and historical data; includes a climate summary for California; Numerical weather data for many California Cities can be had from Weatherbase. Natural Hazards Mitigation Plans for cities and counties often have climate summaries in narrative form, particularly in the section on wildfires; do a Google.com search of: Natural Hazards Mitigation Plan [name of city or county]:
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California Climate Data Archive
Soils:
If you don't find the kind of data you want, try the soil surveys in the library (below).
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Search the Library Catalog for the Subject: soils california [name of county] and soil surveys california [name of county]
to find soil maps and soil surveys of the county in our collection here in the building. |
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See the tab "Books" towards the left for the details of getting these items.
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| Market Share |  Market Share Reporter
and the IBIS World databases: See our FAQ on Market Share
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| Firms, Industries |  Wards Business Directory [Yearly]Now available online. Volume 5 "Ranked by Sales Within 4-Digit SIC". Look at SIC codes 2011 through 2099 for food related industries (Volume 5). Look at NAICS codes 31111-312229 for food related industries (volume 8). |
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Has price and supply information on items traded on commodities futures exchanges. Look at the "Markets Covered" listing to see if this book covers your crop or commodity. (You still have to come into the Library to see this book). |
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| Business Resources |
You can look at some of the mainstream Business Sources, but be warned that many smaller industries and companies are not covered: |
Finding Trade Journals:
Do a search in Proquest Databases or ABI/Inform Business Articles:
After doing an inital search (here it was "frozen food and market share") look to the right for a link to "Trade Journals".
