{"id":65474,"date":"2025-02-03T04:39:08","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T04:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/agriculture\/study-shows-64-increase-in-regulatory-costs-for-lettuce-farmers\/"},"modified":"2025-02-03T04:39:08","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T04:39:08","slug":"study-shows-64-increase-in-regulatory-costs-for-lettuce-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=65474","title":{"rendered":"Study Shows 64% Increase in Regulatory Costs for Lettuce Farmers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #262c30;\">Rising costs of regulatory compliance for lettuce growers indicate a 63.7% increase in the past seven years in a study commissioned by Monterey County Farm Bureau prepared by CalPoly San Luis Obispo professors Lynn Hamilton, Ph.D., and Michael McCullough, Ph.D.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #262c30;\">This new study updated their regulatory costs study from 2017 with additional regulatory program requirements implemented in the intervening years.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #262c30;\">Increased regulatory compliance requirements through 2024 bring lettuce grower total costs of regulation to $1,600 per acre, an increase of 63.7% from the 2017 study and a 1366% increase since 2006 (date of the original study).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #262c30;\">This indicates that regulatory costs are now 12.6% of total production costs, while farmgate values for lettuce increased only 0.37% from 2017 to 2024.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #262c30;\">Increased regulatory compliance mandates since 2017 come from the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, Irrigated Lands Program, equipment emissions regulations, and minimum wage and workplace mandates.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #262c30;\">Costs of regulatory compliance expenditures were studied for food safety practices and inspection audits, air quality, water quality, crop protection reporting, labor health and safety, and labor wages. 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