Shipping costs rise for California-grown fruit -- Truckers and retailers have increased the costs they charge farmers to carry peaches, nectarines and plums to market. The increased cost of fuel has caused the independent truckers and the retailers to increase the cost of a load of fruit, particularly to the East Coast,” says Kerry Whitson, a Tulare County peach, plum and nectarine grower. Retailers want farmers to pay the bulk of the increase. Central Valley Business Times 5/29/08
Gasoline production drops in California -- California’s refineries made 6,332,000 barrels of gasoline meeting the clean-burning standards of the California Air Resources Board during the week ended May 23, the California Energy Commission reported Wednesday afternoon. The amount was 10.9 percent less than in the previous week and 10.1 percent less than was made in the comparable week a year earlier. Central Valley Business Times 5/29/08
U.N. Report Seeks Action to Address Food Crisis -- In anticipation of a global summit on the food crisis, the United Nations called on world leaders Wednesday to agree to urgent measures to ease demand for grains and alleviate high food prices. The report, by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, suggests that countries might need to reconsider policies that encourage the production of ethanol and other biofuels. NY Times 5/29/08
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