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We end up not far from where Didion grew up, in a small city outside of Sacramento that I’ve never been to or even seen on a map, in the state’s agricultural Central Valley.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026

The town is in the Santa Cruz region -- an agricultural breadbasket supplying food to the country's western areas.

From Barron's • Jun. 7, 2026

Gov Abbott issued a proclamation declaring a state of disaster on Friday, which states the outbreak presents "an imminent threat or occurrence of widespread danger and injury to the Texas agricultural industry".

From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026

In several districts, residential mortgages, consumer, and agricultural loan delinquencies were noted as rising.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026

Beginning in the spring of 1919, the insect known as the boll weevil had destroyed entire cotton crops, throwing thousands of black agricultural workers out of work.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler