Coachella Calley and Arizona date growers are forming a partnership in an effort to receive federal funding.
We spoke to farmers from our region and Yuma, Arizona who shared how this funding could help them expand sales overseas.
“Our costs are increasing tremendously with the inflation and a lot of the domestic regulations,” said Hadley’s Date Gardens President, Albert Keck. “So it’s important for us to be able to get good prices for our product, and when you’re competing in the global economy, it’s very difficult.”
Keck and his family have been farming in the Coachella Valley for about 80 years.
He says this is the first time he’s witnessed a formal partnership between California and Arizona date growers. That alliance is now kn …
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