DESCRIBING CALIFORNIA’S ROSE PLANT PRODUCTION IN THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY: A SHORT ECONOMIC HISTORY

Kern County, in the southern San Joaquin Valley of California, USA, is well suited climatically for growing rose (Rosa xhybrida) plants and many other crops, and during the later decades of the 20^th century was home to about half of U.S. rose plant production.
At the industry’s peak about 2000 ha of rose plants were in various stages of production.
We trace through statistical data the beginnings of the industry, harvested area, and crop value.
Recent data indicate a downsizing of the industry in California.

V International Symposium on Rose Research and Cultivation

J.F. Karlik

Rosa, rose plant production, consumer price index, rose unit price, California rose production

https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.2010.870.2