WEBVTT 00:00:06.606 --> 00:00:07.340 GOOD AFTERNOON. 00:00:07.407 --> 00:00:09.409 WE'RE GOING TO CALL TO ORDER THE SELECT 00:00:09.476 --> 00:00:12.445 THE SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE ON CALIFORNIA'S WINE INDUSTRY 00:00:12.512 --> 00:00:13.913 AND WELCOME EVERYONE, 00:00:13.980 --> 00:00:16.983 TO UC DAVIS FOR OUR HEARING MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC, 00:00:17.984 --> 00:00:20.987 OUR DISTINGUISHED PANELISTS AND EXPERTS, 00:00:21.287 --> 00:00:23.022 AND PARTICULARLY, I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE 00:00:23.089 --> 00:00:24.324 AND THANK MY COLLEAGUE, 00:00:24.391 --> 00:00:26.893 THE MAJORITY LEADER OF THE CALIFORNIA STATE ASSEMBLY 00:00:26.960 --> 00:00:30.697 AND THE ASSEMBLY MEMBER FOR THIS AMAZING DISTRICT, 00:00:31.231 --> 00:00:33.833 WHICH INCLUDES YOLO AND AND, 00:00:33.900 --> 00:00:37.337 NAPA AND LAKE AND COLUSA COUNTIES 00:00:38.071 --> 00:00:41.074 AND SAINT OH, AND SONOMA COUNTY AS WELL. 00:00:41.374 --> 00:00:43.176 OVERLAPPING WITH HALF OF MY DISTRICT AS WELL. 00:00:43.243 --> 00:00:45.145 SO IT'S IT'S ALWAYS A GREAT 00:00:45.211 --> 00:00:48.515 HONOR TO HAVE ASSEMBLY MEMBER GARY CURRY, WITH US. 00:00:49.082 --> 00:00:51.718 AND SHE HAS BEEN, EXTREMELY ACTIVE THIS YEAR 00:00:51.785 --> 00:00:54.788 IN ADVANCING LEGISLATION AND BUDGET, 00:00:55.455 --> 00:00:58.224 BUDGET ITEMS IN ORDER TO SUPPORT CALIFORNIA'S WINE INDUSTRY. 00:00:58.291 --> 00:01:00.093 SO IT'S AN ESPECIALLY IT'S A SPECIAL TREAT 00:01:00.160 --> 00:01:02.996 TO HAVE HER HERE IN HER OWN DISTRICT. 00:01:03.062 --> 00:01:04.364 AND I ALSO WANT TO THANK, 00:01:05.432 --> 00:01:05.732 JESSICA 00:01:05.799 --> 00:01:09.836 BERG, THE DEAN OF THE UC DAVIS SCHOOL OF LAW, AND THE ENTIRE UC 00:01:09.903 --> 00:01:13.373 DAVIS TEAM FOR GENEROUSLY HOSTING US HERE AT KING HALL. 00:01:14.307 --> 00:01:16.609 AND I'D LIKE TO INVITE DEAN BERG, 00:01:16.676 --> 00:01:19.646 ACTUALLY, TO TO MAKE A FEW OPENING REMARKS. 00:01:19.712 --> 00:01:22.382 THANKS AGAIN FOR HAVING US TAKE. 00:01:22.449 --> 00:01:24.150 ALL RIGHT. GOOD AFTERNOON AND WELCOME. 00:01:24.217 --> 00:01:26.953 AS YOU NOTED, I'M JESSICA BERG, THE DEAN HERE AT THE UC 00:01:27.020 --> 00:01:28.254 DAVIS SCHOOL OF LAW. 00:01:28.321 --> 00:01:31.090 AND WE'RE SO VERY PLEASED TO HOST THIS SENATE COMMITTEE 00:01:31.157 --> 00:01:34.160 HEARING TO DISCUSS CALIFORNIA'S WINE INDUSTRY 00:01:34.561 --> 00:01:37.263 FOR OVER 140 YEARS, THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, 00:01:37.330 --> 00:01:38.832 DAVIS, HAS PLAYED A PIVOTAL ROLE 00:01:38.898 --> 00:01:41.501 IN ADVANCING THE CALIFORNIA WINE INDUSTRY. 00:01:41.568 --> 00:01:43.937 IN 1880, THE CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 00:01:44.003 --> 00:01:45.538 INSTRUCTED THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY 00:01:45.605 --> 00:01:48.274 OF CALIFORNIA TO ESTABLISH A PROGRAM PROVIDING 00:01:48.341 --> 00:01:51.811 FOR INSTRUCTION AND RESEARCH IN VITICULTURE AND ENOLOGY. 00:01:52.412 --> 00:01:55.548 THE CURRENT DEPARTMENT, ENGAGES IN CUTTING EDGE RESEARCH 00:01:55.615 --> 00:01:58.284 AND EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH, FACILITATING A PARTNERSHIP 00:01:58.351 --> 00:02:00.320 BETWEEN THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA 00:02:00.386 --> 00:02:03.356 AND THE TABLE GRAPE, RAISIN, AND WIND INDUSTRIES. 00:02:03.423 --> 00:02:06.526 OUR ROBERT MONDAVI INSTITUTE FOR WINE AND FOOD SCIENCE, 00:02:06.593 --> 00:02:10.129 WHOSE MISSION IT IS TO ENHANCE PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING OF WINE 00:02:10.196 --> 00:02:13.466 BREWING AND FOOD SCIENCES, PROVIDES PUBLIC PROGRAMING 00:02:13.533 --> 00:02:16.503 HIGHLIGHTING INNOVATIONS CRUCIAL TO THE WINE INDUSTRY. 00:02:17.203 --> 00:02:18.137 AND AT THE SCHOOL OF LAW, 00:02:18.204 --> 00:02:20.306 WHERE WE FOCUS ON THE POLICY SIDE OF THINGS. 00:02:20.373 --> 00:02:22.542 WE HAVE COURSES IN WINE LAW AND RELATED FIELDS, 00:02:22.609 --> 00:02:25.144 AND EVEN A STUDENT WINE LAW SOCIETY. 00:02:25.211 --> 00:02:28.114 WE VIEW OUR PROXIMITY OF SACRAMENTO AS A POSITIVE, 00:02:28.181 --> 00:02:28.815 AND CONTINUE 00:02:28.882 --> 00:02:32.285 TO LOOK FOR WAYS TO ESTABLISH AND EXPAND OUR CONNECTIONS. 00:02:32.785 --> 00:02:34.621 THANK YOU FOR COMING TO KING HALL TO UC 00:02:34.687 --> 00:02:35.889 DAVIS, AND I LOOK FORWARD 00:02:35.955 --> 00:02:38.258 TO CONTINUING THE DISCUSSION ABOUT HOW WE CAN FURTHER 00:02:38.324 --> 00:02:41.127 STRENGTHEN OUR TIES WITH THE CAPITAL. THANK YOU AND WELCOME, 00:02:42.962 --> 00:02:43.229 DEAN BURKE. 00:02:43.296 --> 00:02:45.098 THANK YOU SO MUCH. 00:02:45.164 --> 00:02:48.001 TO, TO RESTATE WHAT WHAT YOU SAID. 00:02:48.067 --> 00:02:49.335 AND WE WOULDN'T BE HERE TODAY 00:02:49.402 --> 00:02:52.739 IF IT WEREN'T FOR UC DAVIS, AND NOT ONLY BECAUSE WE'RE IN, 00:02:53.473 --> 00:02:55.808 THIS WONDERFUL FACILITY HERE AT KING HALL, 00:02:55.875 --> 00:02:58.878 BUT THE THE SUCCESS, 00:02:59.112 --> 00:03:02.115 THE QUALITY, THE RESILIENCE, 00:03:02.815 --> 00:03:06.519 THE ECONOMIC IMPACT, THE JOY OF CALIFORNIA WINE, 00:03:07.587 --> 00:03:10.590 OWES SO MUCH, AND THROUGHOUT ITS HISTORY 00:03:10.857 --> 00:03:13.526 TO THE SCIENTISTS, THE ECONOMISTS, 00:03:13.593 --> 00:03:14.694 THE CREATIVE FOLKS HERE 00:03:14.761 --> 00:03:18.765 AT UC DAVIS, AND, AND SO WE COULDN'T BE MORE PROUD 00:03:18.831 --> 00:03:22.235 TO BE BE HERE TODAY AND TO HEAR FROM, FOLKS WHO I KNOW, 00:03:22.302 --> 00:03:25.672 SEVERAL OF OUR PANELISTS ARE ALUMNI OF UC DAVIS AS WELL. 00:03:26.439 --> 00:03:29.776 AND THAT THAT THAT IMPACT THAT CONTRIBUTION TO THE SUCCESS 00:03:29.842 --> 00:03:31.377 OF THE INDUSTRY AND OF CALIFORNIA'S 00:03:31.444 --> 00:03:34.447 UNIQUE WORLD POSITION AND COMPETITIVENESS AND WINE, 00:03:34.681 --> 00:03:35.748 OWE SO MUCH TO UC DAVIS. 00:03:35.815 --> 00:03:37.150 SO THANK YOU AGAIN FOR HAVING US. 00:03:40.086 --> 00:03:42.021 WE'RE HERE TODAY, ALTHOUGH 00:03:42.088 --> 00:03:45.124 WE'RE EXCITED TO BE AT UC DAVIS, WE'RE HERE BECAUSE, 00:03:45.191 --> 00:03:49.696 THE WINE INDUSTRY IN CALIFORNIA IS BATTLING, ON SO MANY FRONTS. 00:03:50.096 --> 00:03:53.666 AT OUR LAST HEARING IN, IN NAPA AT NAPA VALLEY COLLEGE, 00:03:54.000 --> 00:03:57.303 WE TALKED ABOUT A LOT OF THE ECONOMIC, AND MARKET TRENDS, 00:03:57.870 --> 00:04:00.273 THAT THE INDUSTRY IS FACING, 00:04:00.340 --> 00:04:02.675 AND HOW WE MIGHT ADDRESS THEM BOTH, 00:04:02.742 --> 00:04:03.109 AS A, 00:04:03.176 --> 00:04:04.344 AS THE STATE GOVERNMENT, 00:04:04.410 --> 00:04:06.913 BUT AS CALIFORNIA, AS AN ENTIRE COMMUNITY. 00:04:06.980 --> 00:04:10.249 BUT IT ALSO FACES, CHALLENGES FROM THE NATURAL WORLD, 00:04:10.950 --> 00:04:13.586 WHETHER WEATHER NATURALLY OCCURRING OR NOT, 00:04:13.653 --> 00:04:16.923 INCLUDING THE IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND SUCCESSIVE WAVES 00:04:16.990 --> 00:04:19.726 OF INVASIVE SPECIES, PESTS AND DISEASES 00:04:19.792 --> 00:04:21.694 THAT HAVE BEEN THE STORY OF WHY NOT JUST HERE IN CALIFORNIA, 00:04:21.761 --> 00:04:24.330 BUT AROUND THE WORLD FOR DECADES? 00:04:24.397 --> 00:04:27.300 THE THE REDISCOVERY OF THE GLASSY WINGED 00:04:27.367 --> 00:04:31.504 SHARPSHOOTER EARLIER THIS YEAR ILLUSTRATES JUST HOW DYNAMIC 00:04:31.571 --> 00:04:32.872 THIS CHALLENGE HAS BECOME 00:04:32.939 --> 00:04:35.642 IN THIS PART OF CALIFORNIA IN PARTICULAR, 00:04:35.708 --> 00:04:38.978 THE THIS INVASIVE SPECIES IS A VECTOR FOR PIERCE'S DISEASE, 00:04:39.178 --> 00:04:40.647 WHICH ALREADY COST CALIFORNIA 00:04:40.713 --> 00:04:44.217 WINEGROWERS AN ESTIMATED $48 MILLION A YEAR. 00:04:44.684 --> 00:04:46.586 THE SENATOR FOR TEMECULA, 00:04:46.653 --> 00:04:48.821 WHO IS A MEMBER OF THIS COMMITTEE, KNOWS THIS SITUATION 00:04:48.888 --> 00:04:50.690 QUITE WELL AS AS MANY OF OUR COLLEAGUES 00:04:50.757 --> 00:04:52.392 THROUGHOUT SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA IN THE 00:04:52.458 --> 00:04:55.194 IN THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY DO AS WELL. 00:04:55.261 --> 00:04:58.164 BUT THE THE THREAT IS STATEWIDE, 00:04:58.231 --> 00:04:58.631 FOR REASONS 00:04:58.698 --> 00:05:01.701 THAT WE WILL HEAR LATER TODAY AND SO MUST THE SOLUTIONS BE 00:05:02.268 --> 00:05:05.304 GRAPEVINE RED BLOTCH IS ANOTHER GROWING THREAT. 00:05:05.371 --> 00:05:07.140 IT'S A VIRUS THAT CAN SIGNIFICANT 00:05:07.206 --> 00:05:09.575 LEAD, DIMINISH FRUIT QUALITY AND YIELD. 00:05:09.642 --> 00:05:12.945 AND BECAUSE THERE'S NO CURE ONCE A VINE IS INFECTED, RED BLOTCH 00:05:13.012 --> 00:05:16.015 UNDERSCORES THE IMPORTANCE OF EARLY DETECTION. 00:05:16.249 --> 00:05:17.316 CLEAN NURSERIES, 00:05:17.383 --> 00:05:20.453 STOCK, AND COORDINATED EFFORTS TO MANAGE THE INSECTS 00:05:20.520 --> 00:05:21.320 THAT SPREAD IT 00:05:21.387 --> 00:05:24.824 AND TO HAVE EFFECTIVE DETECTION AND RAPID RESPONSE. 00:05:25.558 --> 00:05:28.795 SO EVEN SO, CALIFORNIA HAS A, IN ITS WINE 00:05:28.861 --> 00:05:33.166 INDUSTRY, A LONG AND STORIED HISTORY OF RESILIENCE AND 00:05:33.232 --> 00:05:36.235 PROSPERITY THROUGH CHALLENGES JUST LIKE THIS. 00:05:36.436 --> 00:05:38.171 AND MEETING THESE CHALLENGES WILL REQUIRE 00:05:38.237 --> 00:05:40.940 TENACITY, PARTNERSHIP AND INVESTMENT. 00:05:41.007 --> 00:05:42.341 THEY ALWAYS HAVE. THEY ALWAYS WILL. 00:05:42.408 --> 00:05:45.511 THAT'S WHAT IT TAKES TO BE THE WORLD'S LEADER IN WINE. 00:05:45.578 --> 00:05:49.182 AND I KNOW, ON BEHALF OF THE LEGISLATURE, CERTAINLY. 00:05:49.248 --> 00:05:50.850 ASSEMBLY MEMBER, I GATHER CURRY AND MYSELF, 00:05:50.917 --> 00:05:52.385 MEMBERS OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE, 00:05:52.452 --> 00:05:53.453 INCLUDING THE PRESIDENT 00:05:53.519 --> 00:05:56.622 OF THE CALIFORNIA STATE SENATE, WHO WAS TRYING TO JOIN US BY 00:05:56.689 --> 00:05:57.123 BY ZOOM. 00:05:57.190 --> 00:05:59.425 WE COULD THERE IS NO ZOOM, TODAY. 00:05:59.492 --> 00:06:01.728 BUT THIS IS AN ISSUE THAT IS OF GREAT IMPORTANCE 00:06:01.794 --> 00:06:03.262 TO SENATOR MONIQUE LEMON, 00:06:03.329 --> 00:06:05.565 THE PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE, WHO REPRESENTS, 00:06:05.631 --> 00:06:07.700 SANTA BARBARA AND CENTRAL COAST, 00:06:07.767 --> 00:06:09.635 THE CENTRAL COAST WINE INDUSTRY AS WELL. 00:06:09.702 --> 00:06:12.672 THIS IS A TOP PRIORITY FOR THE LEGISLATURE. 00:06:12.739 --> 00:06:14.073 AND I KNOW FOR THE GOVERNOR, 00:06:14.140 --> 00:06:16.843 AS WELL AS IT IS FOR SO MANY CALIFORNIANS, 00:06:16.909 --> 00:06:18.411 I'D LIKE TO INVITE ASSEMBLY MEMBER 00:06:18.478 --> 00:06:21.481 GEORGE CURRY TO MAKE ANY REMARKS THAT SHE WOULD SHE WOULD LIKE, 00:06:21.781 --> 00:06:24.250 AND AGAIN, TO THANK HER FOR, 00:06:24.317 --> 00:06:27.120 HER STEADFAST LEADERSHIP ON BEHALF OF THE INDUSTRY, 00:06:27.186 --> 00:06:28.121 BRINGING SCIENCE 00:06:28.187 --> 00:06:31.524 AND NATURE BASED SOLUTIONS TO SO MANY PUBLIC POLICY, 00:06:32.425 --> 00:06:35.561 CHALLENGES IN THE STATE, DRAWING OFTEN AROUND, 00:06:35.995 --> 00:06:39.332 RESEARCH OR PRACTICAL, WORK IN THE FIELD 00:06:39.398 --> 00:06:40.967 THAT IS HAPPENING RIGHT HERE AT UC DAVIS, STILL 00:06:41.033 --> 00:06:43.102 APPLYING THEM TO CALIFORNIA PUBLIC POLICY PROGRAMS. 00:06:43.169 --> 00:06:44.670 ALL OVER THE PLACE. 00:06:44.737 --> 00:06:47.473 BUT BOTH OF US, HAVE BEEN WORKING HARD 00:06:47.540 --> 00:06:50.810 TO BOTH FOCUS STATE GOVERNMENT AND THE LEGISLATURE ON THE OVER 00:06:50.877 --> 00:06:53.513 ON THE OVERARCHING CHALLENGES THAT THE WINE INDUSTRY FACE. 00:06:53.579 --> 00:06:54.413 AND THEN WE HAVE 00:06:54.480 --> 00:06:58.184 EACH BEEN CARRYING BIG AND SMALL PIECES OF LEGISLATION 00:06:58.251 --> 00:07:01.420 TO TRY TO ADDRESS THE THE I'M NOT GOING TO SAY DEATHS 00:07:01.487 --> 00:07:04.557 BECAUSE WE ARE ALIVE AND WELL, BUT THE CHALLENGE OF 1000 CUTS 00:07:04.757 --> 00:07:08.461 THAT THE WINE INDUSTRY, FACES IN CALIFORNIA EVERY DAY. 00:07:08.694 --> 00:07:09.829 AND SO, ASSEMBLYMEMBER 00:07:09.896 --> 00:07:11.531 GALLAGHER, THANKS AGAIN FOR BEING A PART OF TODAY, 00:07:11.597 --> 00:07:13.800 AND I INVITE YOU TO MAKE ANY OPENING REMARKS. 00:07:13.866 --> 00:07:16.102 THANK YOU. SENATOR BALDWIN. 00:07:16.169 --> 00:07:17.603 THANK YOU FOR HAVING US HERE TODAY. 00:07:17.670 --> 00:07:20.673 AS WE KNOW, THIS IS A REALLY IMPORTANT, CONVERSATION. 00:07:21.073 --> 00:07:23.576 THE PROBLEM THIS IS A PROBLEM THAT'S IMPACTING, 00:07:23.643 --> 00:07:25.578 THE WINE INDUSTRY, JUST NOT IN MY DISTRICT, 00:07:25.645 --> 00:07:27.346 BUT ALL UP AND DOWN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA. 00:07:27.413 --> 00:07:29.482 AND SO I'M HERE TO LISTEN 00:07:29.549 --> 00:07:32.151 AND TO HOPEFULLY, WE CAN FIND OUT SOME SOLUTIONS. 00:07:32.218 --> 00:07:34.821 THE GLASSY WINGS SHARPSHOOTER MAY BE A SMALL BUG, BUT 00:07:34.887 --> 00:07:38.090 BOY, IT'S A THREAT THAT POSES ANYTHING BUT SMALL. 00:07:39.258 --> 00:07:41.327 I FARM MY BROTHERS AND I FARM, 00:07:41.394 --> 00:07:42.995 AND WE KNOW WHAT IT COSTS 00:07:43.062 --> 00:07:45.832 WHEN YOU GET SOME KIND OF INVASIVE SPECIES. 00:07:45.898 --> 00:07:48.367 BUT HERE WE HAVE, IN THE GRAPE INDUSTRY, 00:07:48.434 --> 00:07:49.435 WE HAVE HAD 00:07:49.502 --> 00:07:52.138 OUR FARMERS AND GROWERS WORK HARD TO PROTECT OUR CROPS, 00:07:52.205 --> 00:07:54.774 THEIR LIVELIHOODS, AND WE NEED TO DO EVERYTHING 00:07:54.841 --> 00:07:58.110 WE CAN DO TO STAY AHEAD OF THE, THE PEST. 00:07:58.778 --> 00:08:01.047 WE KNOW EARLY DETECTION MATTERS. 00:08:01.113 --> 00:08:03.916 TRAPPING, TRACING WHERE THE PEST HAS TRAVELED, 00:08:03.983 --> 00:08:06.085 GETTING AHEAD OF THE NEW DETECTIONS 00:08:06.152 --> 00:08:08.654 CAN MAKE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A MANAGEABLE PROBLEM 00:08:08.721 --> 00:08:10.556 AND A MUCH BIGGER ONE. 00:08:10.623 --> 00:08:13.626 WE SECURED $10 MILLION FOR THE COMMISSIONERS, 00:08:13.926 --> 00:08:15.895 BUT IT'S NOT NEW FUNDING. 00:08:15.962 --> 00:08:18.798 THAT'S WHY I ASKED FOR FUNDING IN THE BUDGET 00:08:18.865 --> 00:08:21.234 TO HELP CDPHE AND OUR COUNTIES RESPOND. 00:08:21.300 --> 00:08:24.337 NOW, I'D MUCH RATHER BE SPENDING MY TIME TODAY 00:08:24.403 --> 00:08:27.607 TO CONTAIN THIS PROBLEM THAN WAIT UNTIL IT SPREADS AND COST 00:08:27.673 --> 00:08:32.011 CALIFORNIA FARMERS AND TAXPAYERS MANY MORE, MANY MORE DOLLARS. 00:08:32.511 --> 00:08:34.847 AND WE NEED TO THINK BEYOND THIS YEAR, 00:08:34.914 --> 00:08:36.916 NOT JUST TODAY, BUT BEYOND THIS YEAR. 00:08:36.983 --> 00:08:38.217 HAVE A VISION? 00:08:38.284 --> 00:08:41.520 SURVEY ESTIMATES WE MAY NEED ABOUT 5 MILLION 00:08:41.587 --> 00:08:43.522 PER YEAR OVER THE NEXT THREE YEARS 00:08:43.589 --> 00:08:46.826 TO EXPAND TRAPPING SURVEYS AND OUTREACH. 00:08:47.727 --> 00:08:50.763 IF WE LET THIS WIDESPREAD INFESTATION TAKE HOLD, 00:08:50.830 --> 00:08:53.799 THE ERADICATION COST COULD BE FAR HIGHER. 00:08:53.866 --> 00:08:55.067 SO WE NEED TO START TALKING 00:08:55.134 --> 00:08:58.204 ABOUT THIS NOW SO WE CAN PLAN FOR THIS IN FUTURE BUDGETS. 00:08:58.938 --> 00:09:01.540 AND I SAY NOW, WE'VE BEEN LOOKING AT THIS FOR A WHILE 00:09:01.607 --> 00:09:03.876 AND I FEEL LIKE WE GO ON DEAF EARS 00:09:05.344 --> 00:09:06.245 AT THE END OF THE DAY. 00:09:06.312 --> 00:09:09.115 THIS IS ABOUT PROTECTING CALIFORNIA AGRICULTURE. 00:09:09.181 --> 00:09:12.952 OUR VINEYARDS, OUR CITRUS, OUR ORCHARDS, OUR FARMWORKERS 00:09:13.019 --> 00:09:15.955 AND THE COMMUNITIES THAT DEPEND ON THEM. 00:09:16.022 --> 00:09:18.224 I'M GRATEFUL FOR ALL OF YOU TO BE HERE TODAY. 00:09:18.291 --> 00:09:20.393 I'M READY TO LISTEN, TO LEARN, AND WORK 00:09:20.459 --> 00:09:22.528 TOGETHER TO MAKE SURE WE CAN GET IN FRONT OF THIS 00:09:22.595 --> 00:09:23.696 BEFORE IT GETS ANY WORSE. 00:09:23.763 --> 00:09:26.732 AND THANK YOU, SENATOR. 00:09:27.300 --> 00:09:27.867 THANK YOU SO MUCH. 00:09:27.934 --> 00:09:29.936 ASSEMBLY MEMBER I GAR CURRY. 00:09:30.002 --> 00:09:33.806 IT IS A IT IS, WE HAVE A LOT OF WORK TO DO HERE, TODAY. 00:09:33.873 --> 00:09:36.542 AND SO WE WANT TO AND WE WANT TO MAKE SURE WE GET IT RIGHT. 00:09:36.609 --> 00:09:40.646 AND THAT WE, FOCUS THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA ON, 00:09:40.846 --> 00:09:41.280 BOTH GLASSY 00:09:41.347 --> 00:09:44.350 WING SHARPSHOOTER AND RED BLOTCH DISEASE AND SIMILAR, 00:09:44.617 --> 00:09:45.685 INVASIVE SPECIES ISSUES 00:09:45.751 --> 00:09:46.819 THAT WE'RE ALL GOING TO BE CONCERNED ABOUT. 00:09:46.886 --> 00:09:47.720 SO LET'S GET 00:09:47.787 --> 00:09:49.622 STARTED WITH OUR PANEL AND START LEARNING AND 00:09:49.689 --> 00:09:51.490 AND MOVING ON TO ACTION. 00:09:51.557 --> 00:09:54.393 AND WE'RE GOING TO BEGIN BY INVITING DOCTOR CINDY KROHN 00:09:54.460 --> 00:09:56.662 WITH THE NATIONAL, THE NORTH COAST AREA, 00:09:56.729 --> 00:09:58.731 INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT ADVISOR 00:09:58.798 --> 00:10:01.667 TO GIVE US THE BIG PICTURE OVERVIEW AND SOME OF THE RECENT, 00:10:03.035 --> 00:10:04.070 FINDINGS, 00:10:04.136 --> 00:10:07.239 CHALLENGES, ISSUES, AND SOME OF THE, 00:10:07.306 --> 00:10:09.608 POLICIES INFORMED BY OUR PAST SUCCESSES 00:10:09.675 --> 00:10:11.110 AND IDENTIFIED SPECIES OF CONCERN. 00:10:11.177 --> 00:10:14.180 DOCTOR COHN, FOR, THANK YOU FOR BEING WITH US. 00:10:14.680 --> 00:10:16.282 THANK YOU SO MUCH. 00:10:16.349 --> 00:10:17.817 OKAY. 00:10:17.883 --> 00:10:20.886 GOOD AFTERNOON, CHAIR AND COMMITTEE MEMBERS. 00:10:21.220 --> 00:10:22.855 I WILL REPEAT THEM. 00:10:22.922 --> 00:10:25.224 MY NAME IS CINDY KRON, AND I'M THE NORTH COAST 00:10:25.291 --> 00:10:28.260 INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT ADVISOR. 00:10:28.461 --> 00:10:31.530 I ADVISE FOR INSECT PESTS AND INVASIVE SPECIES 00:10:31.597 --> 00:10:34.734 THAT AFFECT COMMERCIAL GRAPES, WALNUTS, PEARS AND OLIVES 00:10:34.800 --> 00:10:37.770 IN NAPA, SONOMA, LAKE AND MENDOCINO COUNTIES. 00:10:38.971 --> 00:10:41.941 TODAY, I'M HERE TO OPEN UP, 00:10:42.008 --> 00:10:44.343 THIS CONVERSATION AND ADDRESS CLASSIFYING 00:10:44.410 --> 00:10:47.413 SHARPSHOOTER INTRODUCTIONS IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA 00:10:47.480 --> 00:10:50.483 AND THEIR POTENTIAL IMPACTS ON THE GRAPE INDUSTRY. 00:10:51.517 --> 00:10:54.520 SO THIS STARTED WITH A NURSERY IN FRESNO, 00:10:54.887 --> 00:10:57.990 AREA THAT DELIVERED GRAPEVINES TO NORTHERN CALIFORNIA COSTCOS 00:10:58.357 --> 00:11:02.094 IN 24 COUNTIES, IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA 00:11:02.161 --> 00:11:07.533 BETWEEN APRIL 21ST AND MAY 21ST WITHOUT THE PROPER HOLD TAGS. 00:11:07.967 --> 00:11:11.837 SO WHAT THAT MEANS IS THAT THE NURSERY IS RESPONSIBLE 00:11:11.904 --> 00:11:15.541 FOR PUTTING A HOLD TAG ON SHIPMENTS BEING DELIVERED, 00:11:16.208 --> 00:11:17.843 OUT OF COUNTIES. 00:11:17.910 --> 00:11:21.414 AND WHAT THAT INDICATES TO THE COSTCO WORKERS IS 00:11:21.747 --> 00:11:22.982 I SEE A WHOLE TAG. 00:11:23.049 --> 00:11:25.217 I CONTACT MY LOCAL AD COMMISSIONER. 00:11:25.284 --> 00:11:27.386 THEY COME DOWN, THEY DO AN INSPECTION, 00:11:27.453 --> 00:11:29.288 AND THAT INSPECTION HAPPENS BEFORE 00:11:29.355 --> 00:11:31.557 IT'S SOLD ON THE ON THE SHOW FLOOR 00:11:31.624 --> 00:11:34.293 WITHOUT THAT WHOLE TAG FOR A MONTH, 00:11:34.360 --> 00:11:38.197 SHIPMENTS WERE BEING DELIVERED TO THESE 24 COUNTIES 00:11:38.264 --> 00:11:39.732 WITHOUT BEING INSPECTED. 00:11:40.699 --> 00:11:42.735 LUCKILY, 00:11:42.802 --> 00:11:45.805 IT WOULD HAVE BEEN NICE IF IT WAS EARLIER, BUT LUCKILY, 00:11:45.871 --> 00:11:48.774 THERE CAME A POINT IN WHICH A WORKER IN SONOMA 00:11:48.841 --> 00:11:52.478 COUNTY AT COSTCO GOT A SHIPMENT OF GRAPEVINES, DIDN'T 00:11:52.545 --> 00:11:55.648 HAVE A WHOLE TAG, AND WAS LIKE, WOW, THIS IS WEIRD. 00:11:56.582 --> 00:11:57.349 SO THEY CALLED THE AD 00:11:57.416 --> 00:11:59.418 COMMISSIONER'S OFFICE BECAUSE THEY HAVE A CLOSE 00:11:59.485 --> 00:12:02.088 RELATIONSHIP WITH THE AD COMMISSIONER. 00:12:02.154 --> 00:12:05.157 AND THEY KNOW THAT IN THE PAST THEY'VE HAD THESE WHOLE TAGS, 00:12:05.391 --> 00:12:06.058 AND THEY ARE NOT SUPPOSED 00:12:06.125 --> 00:12:09.128 TO HOLD THE PRODUCT BEFORE BEING SOLD. 00:12:09.962 --> 00:12:11.864 THEY CALL THE AD COMMISSIONER'S OFFICE IN SONOMA 00:12:11.931 --> 00:12:14.333 COUNTY AND ASKS, HEY, WE GOT THIS SHIPMENT. 00:12:14.400 --> 00:12:15.835 DO YOU WANT TO COME DOWN AND INSPECT? 00:12:15.901 --> 00:12:18.237 AND THEY WERE. YES, WE DO. 00:12:18.304 --> 00:12:21.107 WE WANT TO COME DOWN AND INSPECT. 00:12:21.173 --> 00:12:23.275 AND THEY CAME DOWN TO INSPECT THE SHIPMENT 00:12:23.342 --> 00:12:26.312 AND FOUND ALL LIFE STAGES OF GLASS HAVING SHARPSHOOTER. 00:12:26.378 --> 00:12:29.381 SO THAT IS EGGS, NYMPHS AND ADULTS 00:12:29.582 --> 00:12:32.718 ON GRAPEVINES BEING SOLD ON THE SHOW FLOOR. 00:12:33.519 --> 00:12:36.789 THIS STARTED THE WHOLE PROCESS OF LOOKING AT WHERE ELSE 00:12:36.856 --> 00:12:39.992 HAVE YOU SHIPPED YOUR GRAPEVINES FOR HOW LONG IS THIS HAPPENED? 00:12:40.292 --> 00:12:43.295 AND GOING BACK AND TRACING, TO DISCOVER 00:12:43.362 --> 00:12:47.633 THAT IT ACTUALLY OCCURRED FOR A WHOLE MONTH, 24 COUNTIES. 00:12:48.968 --> 00:12:52.004 SO IN ADDITION, 00:12:52.071 --> 00:12:55.074 A NURSERY IN TEXAS SENT TEN TRUCKS 00:12:55.407 --> 00:12:58.544 OF DESERT WILLOW AND ELEPHANT EARS, 00:12:59.612 --> 00:13:03.282 AGAIN, TO COSTCO LOCATIONS, BUT THIS TIME IN 18 COUNTIES 00:13:03.749 --> 00:13:06.752 BETWEEN JUNE 24TH AND JULY 3RD. 00:13:07.319 --> 00:13:11.423 WHEN ENTERING INTO CALIFORNIA, THEY PASSED A CAFE STATION, 00:13:11.724 --> 00:13:14.793 AND ONLY THREE OF THOSE TRUCKS WERE GIVEN HOLD TAGS. 00:13:14.860 --> 00:13:18.063 THAT MEANS SEVEN TRUCKS ENTERED WITHOUT WHOLE TAGS. 00:13:18.597 --> 00:13:21.400 LUCKILY, THIS WAS CAUGHT QUICKLY. 00:13:21.467 --> 00:13:24.937 BUT DESERT WILLOW WAS SOLD WITHOUT BEING INSPECTED, 00:13:25.538 --> 00:13:27.406 AND WHEN DESERT WILLOW WAS INSPECTED, 00:13:27.473 --> 00:13:30.075 THEY FOUND GLASSY WING SHARPSHOOTER EGGS ON THAT PLANT. 00:13:30.142 --> 00:13:31.777 MATERIAL. 00:13:31.844 --> 00:13:36.148 IN ADDITION, IN SACRAMENTO, THEY FOUND EGGS 00:13:36.215 --> 00:13:39.752 OF ANOTHER SHARPSHOOTER CALLED THE BROAD HEADED SHARPSHOOTER. 00:13:40.186 --> 00:13:42.922 THIS INSECT IS NOT IN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA. 00:13:42.988 --> 00:13:45.624 IT WOULD BE CONSIDERED A QUARANTINE PEST. 00:13:45.691 --> 00:13:48.194 AND IT ALSO VECTORS. I LOVE THE FASTIDIOUS. 00:13:48.260 --> 00:13:49.995 SO THAT CAUSES PIERCE'S DISEASE 00:13:50.062 --> 00:13:52.064 JUST LIKE GLASSY WING SHARPSHOOTER. 00:13:53.632 --> 00:13:55.201 SO IN 00:13:55.267 --> 00:13:58.337 ADDITION, SINCE THAT POINT, CDPHE 00:13:58.404 --> 00:14:01.440 DURING A CDPHE BRIEFING ON AUGUST 12TH, 00:14:02.074 --> 00:14:03.242 THEY HAVE ANNOUNCED THAT 00:14:03.309 --> 00:14:06.312 CLASSIFYING SHARPSHOOTER FINES IN SIX COUNTIES 00:14:07.079 --> 00:14:09.448 SHASTA, SACRAMENTO, SANTA BARBARA, 00:14:09.515 --> 00:14:12.518 SANTA CLARA, STANISLAUS, AND CONTRA COSTA. 00:14:13.352 --> 00:14:15.888 I HAVE NOT RECEIVED AN UPDATE FROM CDPHE 00:14:15.955 --> 00:14:19.058 SINCE THEN, SO I DON'T KNOW WHAT HAS PROGRESSED 00:14:19.558 --> 00:14:23.562 AND ANY MORE DETAILS OTHER THAN THE FINDINGS IN THOSE COUNTIES. 00:14:24.997 --> 00:14:26.799 SO CLASSIFYING 00:14:26.865 --> 00:14:29.802 SHARPSHOOTER IN VECTORS I LALA OSA, 00:14:29.868 --> 00:14:33.439 WHICH IS A BACTERIUM THAT CAUSES PIERCE'S DISEASE, 00:14:34.673 --> 00:14:38.310 THIS, BACTERIUM ENTERS THE PLANT IN THE XYLEM 00:14:38.944 --> 00:14:43.515 AND IT MULTIPLIES, AND IT BLOCKS THE TRANSPORT 00:14:43.582 --> 00:14:46.552 OF WATER AND DISSOLVED NUTRIENTS UPWARD FROM THE ROOTS. 00:14:46.619 --> 00:14:49.355 AND WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE IN THE VINEYARD, 00:14:49.421 --> 00:14:52.891 WHEN YOU SEE PD AND SIGNS OF PD IS WATER. 00:14:52.958 --> 00:14:56.862 STRESS OF GRAPEVINES, LEAVES, SCORCH SHRIVELED FRUITS 00:14:56.929 --> 00:15:00.332 AND EVENTUALLY DEATH OF THE GRAPEVINE IN 1 TO 3 YEARS 00:15:00.633 --> 00:15:02.768 AFTER THE INITIAL INFECTION. 00:15:02.835 --> 00:15:05.604 CURRENTLY WE HAVE NO CURE 00:15:05.671 --> 00:15:09.541 FOR THIS BACTERIUM, AND ONCE IT ENTERS INTO THE XYLEM, 00:15:09.808 --> 00:15:13.579 THERE IS NOTHING WE CAN DO OTHER THAN ROGUE THAT GRAPEVINES. 00:15:14.413 --> 00:15:17.416 BUT IF THAT GRAPEVINE IS NOT ROGUE, IT IS A SOURCE OF 00:15:17.483 --> 00:15:20.953 INOCULUM FOR OTHER SHARPSHOOTERS THAT CAN ACQUIRE 00:15:21.020 --> 00:15:24.556 BY FEEDING AND MOVE IT TO UNINFECTED GRAPEVINES. 00:15:26.058 --> 00:15:26.892 SO WE HAVE 00:15:26.959 --> 00:15:30.062 NATIVE SHARPSHOOTERS THAT VECTORS I LOLA FASTIDIOUS. 00:15:30.829 --> 00:15:33.332 WE HAVE BLUE GREEN SHARPSHOOTER, GREEN SHARPSHOOTER, 00:15:33.399 --> 00:15:36.402 REDHEADED SHARPSHOOTER, WILLOW SHARPSHOOTER. 00:15:36.468 --> 00:15:37.169 WE ALSO HAVE 00:15:37.236 --> 00:15:40.639 THE MEADOWS SPITTLE BUG, UP IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. 00:15:41.273 --> 00:15:44.109 SO WHY ARE WE CONCERNED ABOUT JUST ANOTHER SHARPSHOOTER? 00:15:44.176 --> 00:15:45.778 RIGHT GLASSY WING SHARPSHOOTER? 00:15:45.844 --> 00:15:48.647 WHY DOES IT REALLY MATTER? 00:15:48.714 --> 00:15:51.283 AND WHAT IT AND WHY IT MATTERS IS BECAUSE 00:15:51.350 --> 00:15:54.386 LOVING SHARPSHOOTER IS NOT LIKE THE OTHER SHARPSHOOTERS. 00:15:54.453 --> 00:15:55.621 THEY ARE NOT EQUAL. 00:15:55.688 --> 00:15:57.923 THEY'RE NOT THE SAME THING. 00:15:57.990 --> 00:15:59.491 AND THE REASON BEING IS 00:15:59.558 --> 00:16:02.261 LET'S START WITH THE DISTANCE THAT IT CAN FLY. 00:16:02.328 --> 00:16:05.064 IT CAN FLY UP TO A QUARTER MILE A DAY. 00:16:05.130 --> 00:16:08.100 THIS IS AN INSECT THAT MOVES ACROSS THE LANDSCAPE, 00:16:08.734 --> 00:16:12.137 AND IT WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE AS IT GOES. 00:16:12.504 --> 00:16:15.441 WHERE ARE NATIVE SHARPSHOOTERS LIVE? 00:16:15.507 --> 00:16:17.142 IN THE RIPARIAN AREA. 00:16:17.209 --> 00:16:19.578 THEY MOVE INTO NEIGHBORING GRAPEVINES 00:16:19.645 --> 00:16:21.714 THAT ARE NEAR THE RIPARIAN AREA, 00:16:21.780 --> 00:16:24.149 AND THEY MOVE BACK INTO THE RIPARIAN AREA. 00:16:24.216 --> 00:16:27.052 THEY DO NOT MOVE ACROSS THE LANDSCAPE, 00:16:27.119 --> 00:16:31.890 SO THE AREAS IN WHICH WE HAVE SEEN DISEASE FLARE UP 00:16:32.191 --> 00:16:35.527 ARE THE SAME AREAS YEAR AFTER YEAR. 00:16:35.794 --> 00:16:38.297 BECAUSE OF THIS RELATIONSHIP, 00:16:38.364 --> 00:16:39.865 WHEN YOU HAVE GLASSY WING SHARPSHOOTER 00:16:39.932 --> 00:16:43.035 THAT CAN FLY OVER A QUARTER MILE AND IT CONTINUES TO FLY, 00:16:43.102 --> 00:16:46.171 IT DOES NOT RETURN BACK TO A CERTAIN AREA. 00:16:46.238 --> 00:16:49.208 IT WILL TRANSMIT THIS BACTERIUM 00:16:49.274 --> 00:16:52.678 FURTHER AS IT'S MOVING ACROSS THAT LANDSCAPE. 00:16:53.879 --> 00:16:54.747 ANOTHER 00:16:54.813 --> 00:16:57.483 DIFFERENCE IS THAT IT'S CONSIDERABLY LARGER. 00:16:57.549 --> 00:16:59.218 IT'S HALF AN INCH. 00:16:59.284 --> 00:16:59.818 IT IS ON. 00:16:59.885 --> 00:17:03.122 IT'S ABOUT TWICE THE SIZE OF OUR NATIVE SHARPSHOOTERS. 00:17:03.355 --> 00:17:06.358 AND WITH THAT, IT'S A VORACIOUS FEEDER. 00:17:06.759 --> 00:17:08.660 IT INGESTS A LOT OF XYLEM. 00:17:08.727 --> 00:17:11.397 IT FEEDS ON A LOT MORE GRAPEVINES, 00:17:11.463 --> 00:17:13.866 THAN OUR NATIVE, SHARPSHOOTERS. 00:17:13.932 --> 00:17:14.767 AND THIS CAN 00:17:14.833 --> 00:17:17.636 EXPONENTIALLY INCREASE THE RATE OF VINE TO VINES 00:17:17.703 --> 00:17:20.672 AND OF PD DURING A SINGLE SEASON. 00:17:21.540 --> 00:17:24.543 IT ALSO FEEDS LOWER ON THE SHOOTS IN SUMMER. 00:17:25.144 --> 00:17:27.112 OUR NATIVE BLUE-GREEN SHARPSHOOTER, 00:17:27.179 --> 00:17:30.182 WHICH IS OUR MAIN VECTOR IN THE NORTH COAST, 00:17:30.516 --> 00:17:34.386 FEEDS ON THE GREEN, VERY SUCCULENT SHOOTS, TIPS, 00:17:35.154 --> 00:17:39.324 AND IF THEY FEED IN SPRINGTIME, THAT BACTERIUM WILL TRAVEL 00:17:39.391 --> 00:17:42.928 INTO THE PERMANENT WOOD FOR A PERSISTENT INFECTION. 00:17:42.995 --> 00:17:44.530 THE FOLLOWING YEAR. 00:17:44.596 --> 00:17:47.599 BUT IF THEY FEED ANY TIME FROM JUNE ON, 00:17:47.900 --> 00:17:49.468 IF THERE'S NOT ENOUGH TIME FOR THAT 00:17:49.535 --> 00:17:51.970 BACTERIUM TO GET TO THE PERMANENT WOOD 00:17:52.037 --> 00:17:54.573 BEFORE PRUNING HAPPENS IN WINTER. 00:17:54.640 --> 00:17:56.842 SO IT'S NOT A PERSISTENT INFECTION. 00:17:56.909 --> 00:17:58.911 THERE'S A SMALL WINDOW IN WHICH, 00:18:00.112 --> 00:18:02.915 THE XYLITOL IS TRANSMITTED THAT BECOMES A PERSISTENT 00:18:02.981 --> 00:18:06.218 PIERCE'S DISEASE INFECTION WITH OUR NATIVE SHARPSHOOTERS, 00:18:07.085 --> 00:18:09.354 BUT WITH CLASSIC WING SHARPSHOOTER. 00:18:09.421 --> 00:18:13.058 IT FEEDS LOWER ON THAT SHOOT BELOW WHERE THE PRUNING CUTS 00:18:13.125 --> 00:18:16.128 ARE. IT ENTERS INTO THE PERMANENT WOOD, 00:18:16.562 --> 00:18:20.566 AND IT ALSO IS ABLE TO FEED LOWER IN SUMMERTIME. 00:18:20.632 --> 00:18:21.400 SO IT CONTINUES. 00:18:21.467 --> 00:18:24.870 IT HAS THE WHOLE SEASON TO TRANSMIT THIS BACTERIUM. 00:18:27.105 --> 00:18:30.609 AND IN ADDITION, IT ALSO FEEDS ON 1 TO 2 YEAR OLD GRAPEVINES. 00:18:30.676 --> 00:18:31.810 DURING DORMANCY, 00:18:31.877 --> 00:18:34.880 OUR NATIVE SHARPSHOOTERS DO NOT FEED ON THE DORMANT WOOD, 00:18:35.247 --> 00:18:38.250 BUT THIS GLASSING TROOP SHARPSHOOTER CAN 00:18:38.650 --> 00:18:41.787 AND SO IT'S ABLE TO TRANSMIT BACK THIS BACTERIUM 00:18:42.054 --> 00:18:45.057 AT TIMES IN WHICH OUR NATIVE SHARPSHOOTERS DON'T DO IT. 00:18:46.792 --> 00:18:47.860 SO THIS, 00:18:47.926 --> 00:18:48.961 SHARPSHOOTER, GLASSY WING 00:18:49.027 --> 00:18:52.030 SHARPSHOOTER HAS OVER 300 DIFFERENT HOST SPECIES 00:18:52.464 --> 00:18:57.002 THAT SPAN OVER AGRICULTURAL, URBAN, AND NATIVE ENVIRONMENTS. 00:18:57.503 --> 00:19:00.305 WE CANNOT LIMIT THE HOSTS OF THIS INSECT, 00:19:00.372 --> 00:19:03.542 BECAUSE NO MATTER WHERE IT GOES, IT WILL FIND A PLACE TO FEED 00:19:04.343 --> 00:19:06.645 SOME OF THE CROP HOSTS THAT ARE AFFECTED. 00:19:06.712 --> 00:19:08.013 AND THAT WE HAVE 00:19:08.080 --> 00:19:11.016 IN THE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA AREA ARE GRAPEVINES, 00:19:11.083 --> 00:19:15.721 CITRUS, OLIVE, ALMOND, STONE FRUIT, AVOCADOS, FIG, 00:19:16.021 --> 00:19:18.690 BLACKBERRY, APPLE, POMEGRANATE, PISTACHIO, 00:19:18.757 --> 00:19:20.659 PEAR, PERSIMMON, WALNUT. 00:19:20.726 --> 00:19:23.896 AND THAT IS NOT A FULL LIST OF AGRICULTURAL CROPS. 00:19:24.930 --> 00:19:25.464 SOME OF 00:19:25.531 --> 00:19:29.368 THE ORNAMENTALS ARE CRAPE MYRTLE, OLEANDER, 00:19:29.434 --> 00:19:33.639 HIBISCUS, BOUGAINVILLEA, BOXWOOD, PRIVET, EUCALYPTUS. 00:19:33.939 --> 00:19:35.140 ASH. SYCAMORE. 00:19:35.207 --> 00:19:38.043 ACACIA. AGAIN, NOT A FULL LIST. 00:19:38.110 --> 00:19:41.113 THERE'S OVER 300 SPECIES OUT THERE, 00:19:42.080 --> 00:19:44.216 AND IT'S VERY IMPORTANT TO POINT OUT 00:19:44.283 --> 00:19:48.320 WHEN WE HAD TO DEAL WITH THIS BEFORE A CASE STUDY OF 1998 00:19:48.387 --> 00:19:51.957 TO 2000, IN WHICH THEY HAD THE OUTBREAK OF PIERCE'S 00:19:52.024 --> 00:19:55.027 DISEASE THAT DEVASTATED THE TEMECULA WINE REGION 00:19:55.394 --> 00:19:58.397 AFTER THE INTRODUCTION OF GLASSY WING SHARPSHOOTER, 00:19:59.097 --> 00:20:03.535 IT IS APPROXIMATED THAT 30 TO 60% OF GRAPEVINES 00:20:03.602 --> 00:20:06.605 WERE DESTROYED OR REMOVED DUE TO THIS INFECTION. 00:20:06.672 --> 00:20:10.909 IN ORDER TO COMBAT THE SPREAD OF THIS DISEASE 00:20:11.209 --> 00:20:14.179 IN A VERY SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. 00:20:14.246 --> 00:20:17.249 SO WE'VE DEALT WITH THIS BEFORE IN CALIFORNIA, 00:20:18.150 --> 00:20:21.153 BUT WE HAVEN'T DEALT WITH IT UP HERE IN THE NORTH COAST, 00:20:22.020 --> 00:20:23.789 THERE IS A CDPHE 00:20:23.855 --> 00:20:27.926 2025 ECONOMIC IMPACT STUDY, IN WHICH THE COST 00:20:28.293 --> 00:20:30.996 OF PIERCE'S DISEASE TO CALIFORNIA IS ESTIMATED 00:20:31.063 --> 00:20:34.866 AT $110 MILLION A YEAR, WITH 00:20:35.867 --> 00:20:37.269 48 MILLION OF THAT BORNE 00:20:37.336 --> 00:20:40.372 BY THE GRAPE GROWERS THEMSELVES. 00:20:40.439 --> 00:20:42.841 IF GLASSY SHARPSHOOTER BECOMES ESTABLISHED 00:20:42.908 --> 00:20:46.345 IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA, IT IS ESTIMATED BY THIS STUDY 00:20:46.712 --> 00:20:50.816 THAT THE COST TO GROWERS ALONE WILL MORE THAN DOUBLE TO $104 00:20:50.882 --> 00:20:54.252 MILLION ANNUALLY, AT A TIME THAT THE GRAPE INDUSTRY 00:20:54.319 --> 00:20:55.821 IS REALLY STRUGGLING 00:20:55.887 --> 00:20:57.122 AT THE TIME, AND WITH THE GRAPE 00:20:57.189 --> 00:21:00.192 INDUSTRY DOES NOT HAVE THE MONEY FOR THIS. 00:21:01.226 --> 00:21:04.229 AND SO WITH YOU SEEING OUR 00:21:04.463 --> 00:21:08.133 WE RESPONDED BY SUBMITTING A RAPID RESPONSE GRANTS. 00:21:08.500 --> 00:21:13.105 TWO DAYS AGO, I MPI ON THE NIFA GRANTS TO ABLE 00:21:13.405 --> 00:21:16.508 TO ADDRESS SOME OF THE NEEDS, FOR EXTENSION NEEDS. 00:21:16.842 --> 00:21:21.046 WE ARE NOT A REGULATORY BODY, BUT WE EDUCATE 00:21:21.546 --> 00:21:24.716 AND WITH EDUCATION WE CAN HELP PREVENT ESTABLISHMENT. 00:21:25.350 --> 00:21:28.353 AND SO THIS, THIS IS, ADDRESSING 00:21:28.887 --> 00:21:32.858 URBAN NURSERY, MASTER GARDENER EDUCATION AND OUTREACH 00:21:33.392 --> 00:21:35.394 AND COMMERCIAL GRAPE INDUSTRY WORKSHOPS 00:21:35.460 --> 00:21:39.064 TO TEACH HANDS ON IDENTIFICATION USING ACTUAL SPECIMENS 00:21:39.131 --> 00:21:39.765 OF INSECTS, 00:21:39.831 --> 00:21:43.735 OF SHOWING EGGS DIFFERENT AND STARS OF NYMPHS AND ADULTS. 00:21:44.002 --> 00:21:46.605 THEY CAN SEE WITH A MICROSCOPE IN PERSON 00:21:46.672 --> 00:21:49.041 SO THAT THEY CAN BECOME FAMILIAR ENOUGH 00:21:49.107 --> 00:21:50.609 THAT IF THEY SEE IT IN THE FIELD, 00:21:50.676 --> 00:21:53.779 THEY KNOW WHAT THEY'RE LOOKING AT, THEY KNOW THAT THEY NEED TO 00:21:54.046 --> 00:21:56.381 THEN REPORT IT AND THEN HOW TO REPORT IT. 00:21:58.083 --> 00:22:00.519 IT ALSO, THIS GROUND WILL INCLUDE A DEVELOPING 00:22:00.585 --> 00:22:03.288 A DEGREE DAY MODEL TOOL FOR GROWERS TO USE 00:22:03.355 --> 00:22:06.658 TRAPPING SUPPLIES AND SPANISH TRANSLATED MATERIALS, 00:22:06.858 --> 00:22:10.495 WHICH IS VERY MUCH NEEDED BECAUSE OUR GROWERS 00:22:10.562 --> 00:22:13.699 THAT ARE OUT IN THE FIELD, WE SPEAK ALL LANGUAGES, 00:22:13.932 --> 00:22:16.802 AND IT'S VERY IMPORTANT THAT THIS INFORMATION IS ABLE 00:22:16.868 --> 00:22:19.871 TO BE REACH AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE. 00:22:20.739 --> 00:22:23.341 SO THE INVASIVE SPECIES 00:22:23.408 --> 00:22:26.411 THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT TODAY IS GLASSY WING SHARPSHOOTER. 00:22:26.912 --> 00:22:29.114 BUT THERE ARE CONTINUED THREATS TO THE CALIFORNIA 00:22:29.181 --> 00:22:31.650 GRAPE INDUSTRY, NOT JUST CLASS WING SHARPSHOOTER. 00:22:31.717 --> 00:22:33.785 THIS IS THE HOT TOPIC TODAY. 00:22:33.852 --> 00:22:35.253 THIS IS WHAT WE'RE ALL TRYING 00:22:35.320 --> 00:22:38.657 TO ADDRESS TODAY BECAUSE OF THE COSTCO INTRODUCTIONS. 00:22:39.091 --> 00:22:42.527 BUT IN THE PAST WE HAVE DEALT WITH EUROPEAN GRAPEVINE MOSS, 00:22:43.061 --> 00:22:48.133 IN WHICH THERE WAS A QUICK, RESPONSE TO BE ABLE TO ERADICATE 00:22:48.200 --> 00:22:51.369 THAT INSECT ERADICATION IS NOT EASY TO ACHIEVE, 00:22:51.603 --> 00:22:54.906 BUT ERADICATION WAS ACHIEVED WITH EUROPEAN GRAPEVINE MOTHS. 00:22:55.507 --> 00:22:58.510 IT WAS A CONCERTED EFFORT BETWEEN ALL PARTIES INVOLVED 00:22:58.777 --> 00:23:02.414 HERE AT COMMISSIONER'S OFFICE, CAFE UCA AND 00:23:03.014 --> 00:23:05.717 WE ALL WORK TOGETHER FROM DIFFERENT ANGLES 00:23:05.784 --> 00:23:08.487 TO BE ABLE TO ADDRESS THIS HOLISTICALLY. 00:23:09.721 --> 00:23:11.289 AND IN 00:23:11.356 --> 00:23:14.726 ADDITION, EVERY YEAR I PRESENT ON SPOTTED LANTERNFLY. 00:23:15.360 --> 00:23:16.461 AND IT'S SCARY 00:23:16.528 --> 00:23:20.232 BECAUSE EVERY YEAR I HAVE TO ADD MORE STATES TO THAT LIST 00:23:20.298 --> 00:23:23.869 IN WHICH SPOTTED LANTERNFLY HAS BEEN FOUND IN 00:23:24.970 --> 00:23:27.639 AND THIS IS ANOTHER INVASIVE INSECT 00:23:27.706 --> 00:23:30.709 THAT CAN KILL GRAPEVINES FROM FEEDING ON IT ALONE. 00:23:30.776 --> 00:23:31.910 THERE ARE VERY FEW THINGS 00:23:31.977 --> 00:23:34.346 THAT CAN KILL A GRAPE VINE FROM FEEDING ALONE. 00:23:34.412 --> 00:23:36.515 IT DOES NOT TRANSMIT A PATHOGEN 00:23:36.581 --> 00:23:39.684 TO OUR KNOWLEDGE AT THIS TIME, ALTHOUGH THERE IS CURRENT 00:23:39.751 --> 00:23:41.753 RESEARCH TO SEE IF IT WILL TRANSMIT. 00:23:41.820 --> 00:23:44.156 SILA FASTIDIOUS 00:23:44.222 --> 00:23:46.091 ON THE EAST COAST. 00:23:46.158 --> 00:23:49.995 AND SO IT IS IMPORTANT TO BE AWARE 00:23:50.061 --> 00:23:53.565 THAT THERE ARE A LOT, MORE OUT THERE. 00:23:53.632 --> 00:23:56.034 THERE ARE INSECTS WITH EUROPEAN GRAPEVINE MOTH. 00:23:56.101 --> 00:23:57.235 WE WEREN'T EXPECTING THAT. 00:23:57.302 --> 00:24:01.173 IT JUST ARRIVED AND IT LANDED IN NAPA, OF ALL PLACES. 00:24:01.873 --> 00:24:04.442 SO IT'S NOT THE ONLY INSECT OUT THERE 00:24:04.509 --> 00:24:06.778 THAT WE MIGHT NEED TO COMBAT IN THE FUTURE. 00:24:08.446 --> 00:24:10.382 AND WITH THAT, 00:24:10.448 --> 00:24:13.451 I WOULD LIKE TO TAKE ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU MIGHT HAVE. 00:24:17.088 --> 00:24:17.823 DOCTOR BROWN, THANKS. 00:24:17.889 --> 00:24:19.191 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR, 00:24:19.257 --> 00:24:20.592 BOTH THE COMPREHENSIVE 00:24:20.659 --> 00:24:21.726 AND THOROUGHLY 00:24:21.793 --> 00:24:24.896 UNDERSTANDABLE PRESENTATION ABOUT ABOUT SOME OF THE ISSUES 00:24:24.963 --> 00:24:25.797 THAT WE'RE FACING HERE. 00:24:25.864 --> 00:24:27.232 I WONDER IF I COULD DIAL BACK 00:24:27.299 --> 00:24:30.435 TO THE TO THE FRONT END OF THE PRESENTATION AND, 00:24:31.336 --> 00:24:32.604 THE CUSCO TAGGING. 00:24:32.671 --> 00:24:35.674 YOU ALSO MENTIONED THE BORDER TAGGING AS WELL. 00:24:36.808 --> 00:24:39.711 ARE THERE DO YOU SEE ROLES FOR THE STATE 00:24:39.778 --> 00:24:41.813 OR IS IT PRINCIPALLY A FEDERAL ISSUE, 00:24:41.880 --> 00:24:44.516 OR IS IT BOTH OF US, OR IS IT THE COUNTIES LIKE WHERE 00:24:44.583 --> 00:24:49.487 HOW DO WE ASSURE THAT WE DON'T SEE THAT MUCH THAT 00:24:49.554 --> 00:24:52.958 BIG OF A GAP IN OUR DETECTION SYSTEMS IN THE FIRST PLACE? 00:24:53.024 --> 00:24:54.326 SURE. 00:24:54.392 --> 00:24:56.828 SO AT UCONN, I, 00:24:56.895 --> 00:25:00.098 I CONDUCT RESEARCH AND EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH. 00:25:00.832 --> 00:25:03.134 THIS WOULD BE A BETTER QUESTION ANSWERED BY THE AD 00:25:03.201 --> 00:25:04.870 COMMISSIONER'S OFFICES, 00:25:04.936 --> 00:25:05.503 BECAUSE THEY ARE 00:25:05.570 --> 00:25:09.341 A REGULATORY BODY AND THEY KNOW WHAT THE RULES ARE. 00:25:10.542 --> 00:25:13.545 AND WHERE THAT GAP IS. 00:25:13.812 --> 00:25:16.147 I CAN GIVE YOU MY OPINION, BUT IT MIGHT NOT 00:25:16.214 --> 00:25:19.217 BE AS WELL VERSED AS THE AD COMMISSIONER THEMSELVES. 00:25:19.451 --> 00:25:19.784 WELL, SHE'S. 00:25:19.851 --> 00:25:21.353 IT LOOKS LIKE SHE'S READY. 00:25:21.419 --> 00:25:22.654 SO SORRY. 00:25:22.721 --> 00:25:26.157 YEAH, WE LOOKED IT THERE AND SAID, I'LL GIVE IT A SHOT THEN. 00:25:26.424 --> 00:25:29.327 OKAY. SO, ON THE, 00:25:29.394 --> 00:25:32.964 THE, THE RED BLOTCH ISSUE, ARE YOU ALSO YOU'RE ALSO ENGAGED 00:25:33.031 --> 00:25:34.266 IN THAT ONE AS WELL. 00:25:34.332 --> 00:25:37.402 AND SO WHERE THAT WHERE, WHERE ARE WE SEEING THAT 00:25:37.469 --> 00:25:41.006 AS A PROBLEM AND HOW WHAT'S THE WHAT'S THE HISTORY TO THIS. 00:25:42.440 --> 00:25:43.074 SO GREAT FINE. 00:25:43.141 --> 00:25:45.410 RED FLAG IS DEFINITELY AN ISSUE. 00:25:45.477 --> 00:25:48.480 IN IN GRAPEVINES IN 00:25:48.813 --> 00:25:51.950 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA AND IN NAPA AND SONOMA COUNTY, 00:25:52.550 --> 00:25:53.852 IT IS AN ONGOING ISSUE. 00:25:53.919 --> 00:25:57.756 IT IS DIFFERENT IN THAT, TREE HOPPER VECTORS, A VIRUS 00:25:57.822 --> 00:26:01.626 COMPARED TO A SHARPSHOOTER, A VECTORING, A BACTERIUM. 00:26:02.060 --> 00:26:06.264 THEY'RE NOT EXACTLY THE SAME, BUT EQUIVALENT IN THAT 00:26:06.331 --> 00:26:09.501 THERE IS NO CURE FOR GRAPEVINE RED BLOTCH VIRUS. 00:26:09.567 --> 00:26:12.304 ONCE A VIRUS IS IN THE GRAPEVINE, 00:26:12.370 --> 00:26:15.941 THAT THAT GRAPEVINE IS INFECTED AND NEEDS TO BE ROADS. 00:26:16.408 --> 00:26:19.778 IT IS AN ONGOING ISSUE BECAUSE IT DOESN'T 00:26:19.844 --> 00:26:22.847 KILL THE GRAPEVINES OUTRIGHT, BUT, 00:26:23.214 --> 00:26:26.952 IT REDUCES THE QUALITY OF WINE, WHICH REDUCES YOUR ABILITY 00:26:27.018 --> 00:26:28.987 TO SELL THAT. AND, AS YOU KNOW, 00:26:29.955 --> 00:26:30.522 A HIGH PRICE 00:26:30.588 --> 00:26:33.591 TAG BOTTLE OF WINE, IT ENDS UP MOVING TO BULK WINE. 00:26:34.426 --> 00:26:37.429 GROWERS LOSE A LOT OF MONEY BECAUSE OF THAT. 00:26:38.063 --> 00:26:41.099 WE KNOW WHAT THE INSECT VECTOR IS. 00:26:41.166 --> 00:26:43.735 THERE IS STILL RESEARCH, UNDERWAY TO LOOK 00:26:43.802 --> 00:26:46.805 TO SEE IF THERE'S OTHER INSECT VECTORS. 00:26:46.871 --> 00:26:50.041 THERE HAS NOT BEEN ANY THAT HAVE BEEN SHOWN TO BE, 00:26:50.642 --> 00:26:53.611 CONFIRMED OTHER THAN THREE CORNERED ALFALFA HOPPER 00:26:54.012 --> 00:26:56.748 LASCIVIOUSNESS. 00:26:56.815 --> 00:26:58.350 THANK YOU. 00:26:58.416 --> 00:27:01.519 WE, WE PROBABLY WON'T HEAR THIS FROM JOSH FRUIN LATER, 00:27:01.586 --> 00:27:03.321 BUT BUT WHO KNOWS? 00:27:03.388 --> 00:27:06.758 YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE, YOU KNOW, WE KNOW THAT THE INDUSTRY, 00:27:06.825 --> 00:27:09.828 BECAUSE OF SOME OF THE LARGER MARKET ISSUES, 00:27:10.895 --> 00:27:12.931 THAT THAT, 00:27:12.998 --> 00:27:15.367 WE MAY HAVE MORE AND MORE, 00:27:15.433 --> 00:27:19.037 MORE VINES AND THEN WE THEN CAN BE SUPPORTED BY THE MARKET. 00:27:19.571 --> 00:27:23.141 SO CAN YOU HELP EXPLAIN WHY WHY, YOU KNOW, LOSING A FEW 00:27:23.208 --> 00:27:25.143 VINES TO A COUPLE OF VECTORS, 00:27:26.344 --> 00:27:30.181 IS, IS STILL A PROBLEM, EVEN IF WE HAVE TOO MANY VINES. 00:27:30.248 --> 00:27:30.882 OTHERWISE, IF THEY JUST 00:27:30.949 --> 00:27:34.052 IF INSTEAD OF IF SOMEONE TRIED TO, YOU KNOW, OUR 00:27:34.119 --> 00:27:36.788 ARE DESTROYED BY THE SHARPSHOOTER. 00:27:36.855 --> 00:27:37.589 WHY IS THAT? 00:27:37.655 --> 00:27:40.025 WHY IS THAT A BIG DEAL? 00:27:40.091 --> 00:27:42.794 AND AND, WHAT WHAT ARE THE IMPLICATIONS 00:27:42.861 --> 00:27:45.063 FOR THE REST OF THE INDUSTRY AND THEIR NEIGHBORS? 00:27:45.130 --> 00:27:47.365 GROWERS CAN ONLY AFFORD SO MUCH. 00:27:47.432 --> 00:27:49.934 AT SOME POINT THEY WILL GO BUST. 00:27:50.001 --> 00:27:50.935 THEY WILL NOT BE ABLE 00:27:51.002 --> 00:27:54.039 TO REMOVE THAT VINEYARD THAT HAS THAT INFECTION. 00:27:54.105 --> 00:27:57.342 AND WHAT THAT MEANS IS IT'S A SOURCE FOR THE INSECTS 00:27:57.409 --> 00:27:58.977 TO ACQUIRE, 00:27:59.044 --> 00:28:01.212 WHETHER IT BE IN GRAPEVINE RED BLOTCH VIRUS 00:28:01.279 --> 00:28:03.415 OR WHETHER IT BE ZILLOW, THE FASTIDIOUS, 00:28:03.481 --> 00:28:05.717 AND MOVE IT TO THE NEIGHBORS, 00:28:05.784 --> 00:28:07.519 AND EVEN FURTHER BEYOND. 00:28:07.585 --> 00:28:10.622 AND SO WITHOUT THE ABILITY 00:28:11.056 --> 00:28:13.892 TO MANAGE THOSE ABANDONED VINEYARDS, 00:28:14.959 --> 00:28:17.996 AND WITHOUT THE GROWER BEING ABLE TO AFFORD IT, 00:28:18.063 --> 00:28:21.066 IT IS GOING TO BECOME AN EXASPERATED PROBLEM. 00:28:21.900 --> 00:28:25.070 IT'S NOT AS EASY OF ALL WE HAVE TO MANY GREAT VINES. 00:28:25.136 --> 00:28:27.605 IT'S OKAY IF WE LOSE A FEW. 00:28:27.672 --> 00:28:30.675 THAT'S NOT REALLY WHAT WOULD BE GOING ON. 00:28:31.342 --> 00:28:33.378 OKAY, SO WHAT YOU'RE DESCRIBING, THIS IS WHAT I WAS 00:28:33.445 --> 00:28:35.246 TRYING TO WRITE, IS THAT THE, THE 00:28:35.313 --> 00:28:38.183 THE CONFLUENCE OF THESE TWO ISSUES, THE, THE, YOU KNOW, 00:28:38.249 --> 00:28:42.954 THE, THE DEMAND WEAKNESS ON THE ONE END AND THE PERHAPS 00:28:43.021 --> 00:28:46.658 THE DESIRABILITY FOR THERE TO BE FEWER VINES, IS NOT IS 00:28:47.325 --> 00:28:50.428 IT IS A PROBLEM, ESPECIALLY FOR THOSE TWO THINGS 00:28:50.495 --> 00:28:52.797 TO BE HAPPENING AT ONCE, BECAUSE, 00:28:52.864 --> 00:28:55.500 THE INDUSTRY IS FOR SOME FOLKS, 00:28:55.567 --> 00:28:58.236 THE INDUSTRY IS NOT CAPABLE OF SORT OF, 00:28:58.303 --> 00:29:01.039 DEALING WITH THE VINES THAT ARE THAT BECOME INFECTED 00:29:01.106 --> 00:29:05.076 WITH THE VIRUS OR THE BACK OR, OR THE BACTERIUM. 00:29:05.710 --> 00:29:06.010 INSTEAD 00:29:06.077 --> 00:29:10.148 THEY SIMPLY BECOME ABANDONED AND THEN THEY BECOME A NUISANCE. 00:29:10.215 --> 00:29:13.785 AND IN AN AN ACCELERANT ON THE SECTOR MOVING TO OTHER, 00:29:14.119 --> 00:29:16.855 OTHER, OTHER VINES AND OTHER PROPERTIES. YES. 00:29:16.921 --> 00:29:18.923 OKAY. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. 00:29:18.990 --> 00:29:19.557 SO OF THEM. MEMBER 00:29:20.658 --> 00:29:23.661 I'M SITTING HERE DUMBFOUNDED. 00:29:24.062 --> 00:29:27.499 YOU KNOW, I, I REALIZE THAT WE'VE HAD THE ISSUE WITH COSTCO, 00:29:27.966 --> 00:29:30.034 AND I WAS SURPRISED IT TOOK A LITTLE BIT OF TIME 00:29:30.101 --> 00:29:33.104 THAT SOMEONE HADN'T IDENTIFIED THAT BEFORE. 00:29:33.471 --> 00:29:36.474 WHEN A PRODUCT COMES INTO ANY WAREHOUSE, 00:29:36.841 --> 00:29:37.642 WELL, PARTICULARLY 00:29:37.709 --> 00:29:39.410 WE'LL JUST USE COSTCO AS EXAMPLE, BECAUSE I'M 00:29:39.477 --> 00:29:42.413 SURE THIS IS NOT THE ONLY PLACE THIS HAS HAPPENED, BUT 00:29:42.480 --> 00:29:43.982 WHO IDENTIFIES 00:29:44.048 --> 00:29:47.051 CHECKS OUT THE PLANTS BEFORE THEY EVEN COME INTO THE STORE. 00:29:47.252 --> 00:29:49.053 WHAT ORGANIZATION DOES THAT? 00:29:49.120 --> 00:29:51.055 WHAT AGENCY DOES THAT? 00:29:51.122 --> 00:29:53.725 AND, YEAH. 00:29:53.791 --> 00:29:54.592 DO WE HAVE AN. 00:29:54.659 --> 00:29:55.493 OH YEAH. OKAY. 00:29:55.560 --> 00:29:58.463 I THINK I WILL DEFER TO THE AD COMMISSIONER. 00:29:58.530 --> 00:30:00.965 AND THIS IS VERY BIG TIME. 00:30:01.032 --> 00:30:05.403 BUT THE OTHER THING IS, IS, YOU KNOW, WE I WAS REALLY UPSET 00:30:05.470 --> 00:30:10.008 BECAUSE, ONE OF MY, STAFF PEOPLE BROUGHT IN THIS LITTLE PLANT, 00:30:11.042 --> 00:30:11.743 AND THEY BOUGHT THE 00:30:11.809 --> 00:30:15.847 PLANT ONLINE, AND IT WAS AN INVASIVE SPECIES. 00:30:15.914 --> 00:30:18.349 AND I SAID, HOW DID YOU GET THAT IN HERE? 00:30:18.416 --> 00:30:19.450 FIRST OF ALL, 00:30:19.517 --> 00:30:20.919 AND I'M CONCERNED ABOUT 00:30:20.985 --> 00:30:22.687 IF THEY'RE COMING THROUGH THE MAIL ORDER 00:30:22.754 --> 00:30:24.122 OR WHATEVER, WHAT ELSE IS COMING THROUGH. 00:30:24.189 --> 00:30:26.090 SO I'M SURE WE'LL ADDRESS THAT AS WELL, 00:30:26.157 --> 00:30:27.125 BECAUSE IT'S SOMETHING WE 00:30:27.192 --> 00:30:30.128 WE NEED TO HAVE A CONVERSATION ON. 00:30:30.195 --> 00:30:32.230 ONE OF OUR, ASSEMBLY MEMBERS. 00:30:32.297 --> 00:30:36.134 IRWIN, DID THE RULE FOR US THIS YEAR TO SEE HOW 00:30:36.201 --> 00:30:40.138 WE CAN PREVENT PRODUCT COMING IN WITH INVASIVE 00:30:40.738 --> 00:30:43.841 SPECIES AND AND BUGS AND WHATEVER ELSE. 00:30:43.908 --> 00:30:46.311 SO I'LL LET HER DO IT. 00:30:46.377 --> 00:30:47.946 THANK YOU. 00:30:48.012 --> 00:30:49.314 THANK YOU. PRESENTATION WAS GREAT. 00:30:49.380 --> 00:30:51.282 THANK YOU, THANK YOU. 00:30:51.349 --> 00:30:53.818 SO ONE OTHER QUESTION THAT'S RELATED TO THE SCIENCE HERE. 00:30:53.885 --> 00:30:54.986 SO WHEN WHEN WE DEALT 00:30:55.053 --> 00:30:58.923 WHEN CALIFORNIA DEALT WITH THE FIRST INVASION IN THE, 00:30:59.324 --> 00:31:02.694 IN THE, IN THE 90S, THERE'S BEEN A SERIES OF BOTH 00:31:02.760 --> 00:31:04.329 TECHNOLOGICAL AND, 00:31:04.395 --> 00:31:07.031 AND OTHER CONTROL MEASURES THAT WEREN'T AVAILABLE TO US 00:31:07.098 --> 00:31:08.499 IN THE SAME MANNER AS THEY ARE TODAY. 00:31:08.566 --> 00:31:10.168 CRISPR EDITING, YOU KNOW, OTHER THINGS 00:31:10.235 --> 00:31:12.637 THAT YOU'RE MUCH MORE FAMILIAR ABOUT THAN I AM. 00:31:12.704 --> 00:31:15.840 ARE WE ARE WE BETTER PREPARED TO DEPLOY 00:31:15.907 --> 00:31:16.975 SOME OF THOSE STRATEGIES 00:31:17.041 --> 00:31:21.112 TODAY, HAVE OUR SYSTEMS, HAVE OUR GOVERNMENTAL SYSTEMS 00:31:21.446 --> 00:31:24.782 WITHOUT IMPUGNING OR PLOTTING THE COUNTIES AT THIS POINT? 00:31:24.849 --> 00:31:27.352 BECAUSE WE'LL WE'LL HEAR FROM, TRACY CLEVELAND LATER. 00:31:27.418 --> 00:31:31.256 BUT OUR SYSTEM IS CAPABLE OF, OF, OF, DEPLOYING OR MAKING, 00:31:31.322 --> 00:31:33.558 TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE TECHNOLOGICAL IMPROVEMENTS 00:31:33.625 --> 00:31:36.594 THAT WE'VE SEEN IN SOME OF THESE DIMENSIONS SINCE THE 90S. 00:31:36.661 --> 00:31:40.198 I'M NOT AWARE OF THIS TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES 00:31:40.265 --> 00:31:43.101 BEING USED FOR, AS I LEOLA FASTIDIOUS 00:31:43.167 --> 00:31:44.802 AND PIERCE'S DISEASE SPECIFICALLY, 00:31:46.371 --> 00:31:47.338 I AM NOT AWARE OF 00:31:47.405 --> 00:31:50.575 RESEARCH IN THAT SPECIFIC COMBINATION OF THE TWO. 00:31:51.643 --> 00:31:52.844 OKAY. 00:31:52.910 --> 00:31:53.244 ALL RIGHT. 00:31:53.311 --> 00:31:55.246 WELL, DOCTOR RON, THANK YOU SO MUCH. 00:31:55.313 --> 00:31:56.314 THANK YOU. EXCELLENT. 00:31:56.381 --> 00:31:58.449 EXCELLENT START TO THE TO THE HEARING. 00:31:58.516 --> 00:31:59.951 REALLY GOOD. 00:32:00.018 --> 00:32:02.987 SCENE SETTER FOR FOR FOR FOR US AND FOR OUR COLLEAGUES. 00:32:03.054 --> 00:32:04.656 SO APPRECIATE YOU JOINING US TODAY. 00:32:04.722 --> 00:32:07.725 THANK YOU. 00:32:08.793 --> 00:32:08.993 ALL RIGHT. 00:32:09.060 --> 00:32:12.397 WELL, NEXT WE'RE GOING TO, PROCEED TO, 00:32:13.498 --> 00:32:16.434 WITH ALL THE FORESHADOWING THAT WE'VE HAD UP TO THIS POINT. 00:32:16.501 --> 00:32:19.537 NOW IT IS TIME TO HEAR FROM FROM, FROM TRACY CLEVELAND, 00:32:19.804 --> 00:32:23.007 WHO IS THE AGRICULTURAL COMMISSIONER AND AND THE SELLER 00:32:23.074 --> 00:32:26.077 OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES, FOR NAPA COUNTY. 00:32:26.277 --> 00:32:26.778 TRACY CLEVELAND. 00:32:26.844 --> 00:32:28.212 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING US. 00:32:28.279 --> 00:32:31.149 AND PLEASE SHARE WITH US YOUR PERSPECTIVE. WONDERFUL. 00:32:31.215 --> 00:32:32.350 THANK YOU. 00:32:32.417 --> 00:32:34.285 GOOD AFTERNOON, CHAIR AND COMMITTEE MEMBERS. 00:32:34.352 --> 00:32:34.686 I'M TRACY 00:32:34.752 --> 00:32:36.654 CLEVELAND AND THE NAPA COUNTY AD COMMISSIONER 00:32:36.721 --> 00:32:38.589 AND SELLER OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. 00:32:38.656 --> 00:32:40.958 THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE HERE TODAY AND TO SPEAK. 00:32:41.025 --> 00:32:43.494 I'M, VERY HONORED. 00:32:43.561 --> 00:32:46.698 SO I'D LIKE TO START JUST BY GIVING A BRIEF INTRODUCTION 00:32:46.764 --> 00:32:47.932 TO AG IN THE U.S.. 00:32:47.999 --> 00:32:50.335 I THINK EVERYONE ON THIS PANEL IS VERY FAMILIAR. 00:32:50.401 --> 00:32:52.537 BUT IT'S ALWAYS IMPORTANT TO TOUCH ON, 00:32:52.603 --> 00:32:54.038 YOU KNOW, AGRICULTURE, 00:32:54.105 --> 00:32:55.506 IN THE UNITED STATES, IN CALIFORNIA, 00:32:55.573 --> 00:32:58.576 AND THEN IN NAPA TO PUT IT INTO PERSPECTIVE FOR YOU. 00:32:58.876 --> 00:33:00.745 AND THEN WE CAN DIVE INTO GLASSY WING SHARPSHOOTER. 00:33:00.812 --> 00:33:03.815 SO CALIFORNIA IS AN AGRICULTURAL POWERHOUSE. 00:33:04.082 --> 00:33:07.919 I DON'T KNOW HOW ELSE TO SAY IT IN 2024, CALIFORNIA WAS RANKED 00:33:07.985 --> 00:33:11.789 NUMBER ONE IN THE US AND CASH RECEIPTS TOTALING 61.2 BILLION. 00:33:12.623 --> 00:33:14.926 CALIFORNIA PRODUCES MORE THAN 400 COMMODITIES, 00:33:14.992 --> 00:33:16.227 AND SOME OF THOSE COMMODITIES 00:33:16.294 --> 00:33:18.563 ARE ALMOST EXCLUSIVELY GROWN HERE. 00:33:18.629 --> 00:33:21.065 NEARLY HALF OF THE COUNTRY'S VEGETABLES AND OVER 00:33:21.132 --> 00:33:24.535 THREE QUARTERS OF FRUITS AND NUTS COME FROM CALIFORNIA. 00:33:24.602 --> 00:33:25.903 SO WE'RE FEEDING CALIFORNIANS, 00:33:25.970 --> 00:33:28.172 WE'RE FEEDING THE NATION, AND WE'RE FEEDING THE WORLD. 00:33:29.173 --> 00:33:30.007 IN JULY, 00:33:30.074 --> 00:33:33.077 WE RELEASED OUR 2025 NAPA COUNTY CROP REPORT. 00:33:33.678 --> 00:33:35.213 NO SURPRISE THAT WINE GRAPES ARE OUR NUMBER 00:33:35.279 --> 00:33:39.050 ONE COMMODITY IN NAPA, AND THEY WERE VALUED AT OVER 968 00:33:39.117 --> 00:33:43.921 MILLION SO FAR, CLOSE TO 43,000 PRODUCTION ACRES. 00:33:44.222 --> 00:33:47.825 THE TWO PREVIOUS CROP REPORTS, 24 AND 23, 00:33:48.126 --> 00:33:51.162 HAD NAPA'S WINE GRAPE CROP VALUED AT OVER A BILLION. 00:33:51.229 --> 00:33:53.865 SO IT'S THE THEY'RE BIG NUMBERS. 00:33:53.931 --> 00:33:56.934 WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT AGRICULTURE AND CALIFORNIA, 00:33:57.168 --> 00:33:59.670 THOSE TWO WORDS SHOULD BE SYNONYMOUS. 00:33:59.737 --> 00:34:02.740 NOW THAT YOU HAVE THE FULL PICTURE OF WHAT'S AT STAKE, 00:34:03.207 --> 00:34:04.075 LET'S TALK ABOUT GLYPHOSATE, 00:34:04.142 --> 00:34:05.009 PIERCE'S DISEASE, 00:34:05.076 --> 00:34:08.146 AND THE COSCO FRESNO AND TEXAS NURSERY INCIDENTS 00:34:08.212 --> 00:34:10.047 THAT DOCTOR KRON TOUCHED ON. 00:34:10.114 --> 00:34:10.782 SO IN NAPA, 00:34:10.848 --> 00:34:13.985 OVER THE COURSE OF FOUR WEEKS, APRIL 21ST THROUGH MAY 21ST, 00:34:14.285 --> 00:34:16.921 BASED ON SHIPPING RECEIPTS, WE RECEIVED 00:34:16.988 --> 00:34:20.525 ABOUT 200 AND TOTAL 220 TOTAL GRAPEVINES. 00:34:21.092 --> 00:34:24.162 CUSTOMER CONTACT LISTS PROVIDED BY COSTCO WEEKS LATER, 00:34:24.962 --> 00:34:28.499 INDICATE THAT 110 OF THOSE 220 VINES 00:34:28.566 --> 00:34:31.602 WERE SOLD TO NAPA RESIDENTS WITH HELP FROM THE COUNTY. 00:34:31.669 --> 00:34:33.604 WITH HELP FROM INDUSTRY AND OUR RESIDENTS. 00:34:33.671 --> 00:34:39.277 REALLY, WE INSPECTED AND OR DEST 00:34:40.278 --> 00:34:43.314 SO THAT LEAVES SOME UNACCOUNTED FOR. 00:34:43.381 --> 00:34:45.316 WE LEARNED THAT SOME OF THOSE REMAINING VINES 00:34:45.383 --> 00:34:47.518 WERE DONATED BY COSTCO TO FOOD BANKS. 00:34:47.585 --> 00:34:50.288 THEY WERE DESTROYED BY COSTCO DIRECTLY. 00:34:50.354 --> 00:34:54.692 OR THEY WERE TRACED BY MY TEAM TO ADJACENT COUNTIES, 00:34:55.092 --> 00:34:56.060 AND ADJACENT COUNTY. 00:34:56.127 --> 00:34:57.862 COSTCO CUSTOMERS. 00:34:57.929 --> 00:34:58.729 DOCTOR KRON 00:34:58.796 --> 00:35:02.133 TOUCHED ON THE 24 COUNTIES THAT HAD RECEIVING COSTCO'S. 00:35:02.900 --> 00:35:04.735 WHAT SHE LEFT OUT IS THAT THERE WERE 16 00:35:04.802 --> 00:35:06.838 ADDITIONAL COUNTIES THAT DO NOT HAVE COSTCO'S, 00:35:06.904 --> 00:35:11.175 BUT STILL HAD THEIR RESIDENTS PURCHASING VINES FROM ADJACENT, 00:35:11.476 --> 00:35:13.411 NEIGHBORING COSTCO'S AND THEN BRINGING THEM HOME. 00:35:13.478 --> 00:35:16.481 SO THE TOTAL IMPACT THERE WAS 40 COUNTIES, 00:35:16.881 --> 00:35:20.418 ON THE TEXAS NURSERY SHIPMENT SIDE, 25 COUNTIES RECEIVED 00:35:20.485 --> 00:35:24.188 MATERIAL, 18 SOLD MATERIAL BEFORE THEY WERE INSPECTED. 00:35:24.522 --> 00:35:27.758 NAPA HAPPENS TO BE ONE OF THE COUNTIES THAT WERE NOTIFIED 00:35:28.025 --> 00:35:29.560 WITH ENOUGH TIME TO INSPECT 00:35:29.627 --> 00:35:32.630 AND THEN DESTROY WITHOUT HAVING ANYTHING SOLD, 00:35:32.997 --> 00:35:36.601 BUT AGAIN, IT POINTS TO, GAPS IN THE PROGRAM. 00:35:37.235 --> 00:35:39.103 SO WHAT ARE COUNTIES DOING IN RESPONSE? 00:35:39.170 --> 00:35:40.705 WHAT'S WHAT'S THE STRATEGY? 00:35:40.771 --> 00:35:43.774 THE GENERAL ORDER OF THINGS INCLUDES CONTAINING THE SPREAD 00:35:44.075 --> 00:35:47.078 STATEWIDE SURVEY AND DETECTION AND RAPID RESPONSE. 00:35:47.144 --> 00:35:47.879 SO CONTAINMENT 00:35:47.945 --> 00:35:48.813 CONTAINING THE SPREAD 00:35:48.880 --> 00:35:51.883 FOR COUNTIES INVOLVES OUR TRACE FORWARD EFFORTS. 00:35:52.116 --> 00:35:53.518 SO IMPACTED COUNTIES IMMEDIATELY 00:35:53.584 --> 00:35:55.052 BEGAN TRACE FORWARD ACTIVITIES. 00:35:55.119 --> 00:35:56.554 WE WERE TRYING TO TRACK DOWN 00:35:56.621 --> 00:36:00.525 ALL OF THOSE UNACCOUNTED FOR VINES WITHIN OUR COMMUNITIES. 00:36:00.591 --> 00:36:02.527 WE ISSUED PRESS RELEASES 00:36:02.593 --> 00:36:04.729 THROUGH OUR PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICERS, 00:36:04.795 --> 00:36:07.965 OUR BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, OUR COUNTY EXECUTIVE OFFICERS, 00:36:08.833 --> 00:36:11.903 AND THEN AND OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA AND MEDIA PATHWAYS 00:36:11.969 --> 00:36:13.704 AND NETWORKS TO GET THE MESSAGING OUT. 00:36:14.672 --> 00:36:16.007 AND THEN ONCE WE HAD CUSTOMER LIST, 00:36:16.073 --> 00:36:18.209 WE WERE ABLE TO GO DIRECTLY TO THE SOURCE. 00:36:18.276 --> 00:36:21.012 SO AGAIN, STAFF WERE DEPLOYED TO INSPECT PLANTS, 00:36:21.078 --> 00:36:24.081 AT IDENTIFIED SITES, CONFISCATING VINES AS NECESSARY, 00:36:24.315 --> 00:36:26.050 AND THEN SUBMITTING SUSPECT 00:36:26.117 --> 00:36:29.487 PEST SAMPLES TO CDPHE FOR ANALYSIS AND IDENTIFICATION. 00:36:30.121 --> 00:36:33.124 THE NEXT PART IS THAT VISUAL INSPECTION AND SURVEY 00:36:33.491 --> 00:36:35.993 AT THESE RESIDENTIAL SITES, WE ALSO INSPECTED 00:36:36.060 --> 00:36:37.795 THE SURROUNDING LANDSCAPED AREA. 00:36:37.862 --> 00:36:39.797 SO IT'S THE VINE THAT'S COMING IN. 00:36:39.864 --> 00:36:41.699 YOU INSPECT, YOU TAKE OFF ANY SAMPLES, 00:36:41.766 --> 00:36:44.635 AND THEN YOU LOOK AT EVERYTHING BECAUSE NOW 00:36:44.702 --> 00:36:47.471 THOSE VINES AND THOSE PESTS HAVE BEEN IN THE ENVIRONMENT 00:36:47.538 --> 00:36:49.106 FOR A WHILE. THEY COULD HAVE MOVED OFF SITE. 00:36:49.173 --> 00:36:50.107 DOCTOR KRON TOUCHED ON 00:36:50.174 --> 00:36:54.111 THE FACT THAT THERE ARE OVER 300, 300 HOSTS. 00:36:54.178 --> 00:36:57.181 SO THAT'S A THAT'S A BIG NUMBER. 00:36:57.381 --> 00:36:59.684 AND SO WE WERE REALLY FOCUSING ON LOOKING 00:36:59.750 --> 00:37:01.152 FOR PRESENCE OF GLASS CEILING. 00:37:01.218 --> 00:37:05.022 AND THEN WE ALSO ADDED DETECTION TRAPS TO THOSE AREAS 00:37:05.089 --> 00:37:07.925 AS AN ADDITIONAL WAY TO MONITOR FOR GUESTS. 00:37:07.992 --> 00:37:13.664 TO DATE, NAPA COUNTY ADDED 271 TRAPS TO 152 ADDITIONAL SITES. 00:37:14.098 --> 00:37:16.033 THIS IS ON TOP OF OUR GENERAL GLASS CEILING 00:37:16.100 --> 00:37:19.170 SHARPSHOOTER TRAPPING PROGRAM, WHERE WE HAVE A THOUSAND TRAPS 00:37:19.236 --> 00:37:23.441 OUT IN THE, IN THE WORLD ON AN ANNUAL BASIS. 00:37:25.643 --> 00:37:26.544 AND WE HAD, 00:37:26.611 --> 00:37:29.680 FOUR LAB CONFIRMED VIABLE EGG MASSES TAKEN FROM THOSE FINES 00:37:29.747 --> 00:37:31.082 THAT WE INSPECTED. 00:37:31.148 --> 00:37:33.084 SO THIS IS THE THIRD AND FINAL. 00:37:33.150 --> 00:37:34.385 IS THAT RAPID RESPONSE. 00:37:34.452 --> 00:37:36.654 IF MULTIPLE LIFE STAGES OF A BREEDING 00:37:36.721 --> 00:37:38.956 OR BREEDING POPULATION, OF COURSE, IS FOUND, 00:37:39.023 --> 00:37:40.291 THEN CDPHE WORKS 00:37:40.358 --> 00:37:43.661 WITH THOSE COUNTIES TO TO BEGIN THOSE ERADICATION EFFORTS. 00:37:44.462 --> 00:37:47.098 AND THERE'S A IT'S A LONG AND KIND OF DRAWN OUT PROCESS. 00:37:47.164 --> 00:37:48.065 WE GO THROUGH OUR BOARD, 00:37:48.132 --> 00:37:51.035 WE DO A PROCLAMATION OF AN EMERGENCY PROGRAM. 00:37:51.102 --> 00:37:52.503 SO WE SEE RAPID RESPONSE. 00:37:52.570 --> 00:37:55.573 BUT IT'S NOT REALLY AS RAPID AS I THINK THAT IT NEEDS TO BE. 00:37:56.207 --> 00:37:58.976 COUNTIES ALSO MAINTAIN DETECTION TRAPS AT HIGH DENSITY 00:37:59.043 --> 00:38:02.813 AND CONTINUE TO CONDUCT, VISUAL INSPECTIONS OF THOSE AREAS. 00:38:03.781 --> 00:38:06.717 ERADICATION EFFORTS, ALSO INCLUDE TARGETED 00:38:06.784 --> 00:38:09.754 PESTICIDE APPLICATIONS AND BIO CONTROL RELEASES. 00:38:09.820 --> 00:38:11.722 THOSE EFFORTS CAN TAKE YEARS, 00:38:11.789 --> 00:38:13.758 DEPENDING ON THE SIZE OF THE POPULATION. 00:38:13.824 --> 00:38:16.027 AND, THE LOCATION. 00:38:16.093 --> 00:38:17.728 DOCTOR KRON 00:38:17.795 --> 00:38:21.198 TOUCHED ON, SOME OF THE MOST RECENT ERADICATION EFFORTS. 00:38:21.265 --> 00:38:23.834 SHE MENTIONED SIX DIFFERENT COUNTIES, 00:38:23.901 --> 00:38:27.538 PRIOR TO THE FRESNO NURSERY INCIDENT, EXISTING ERADICATION 00:38:27.605 --> 00:38:29.573 PROJECTS, NOT INCLUDING THOSE NEW 00:38:29.640 --> 00:38:32.543 SIX COUNTIES, INCLUDED FOUR COUNTIES 00:38:32.610 --> 00:38:35.613 SOLANO, STANISLAUS, EL DORADO, AND SANTA CLARA. 00:38:35.980 --> 00:38:37.782 POST FRESNO NURSERY INCIDENT. 00:38:37.848 --> 00:38:41.252 WE HAVE TREE TREATMENTS HAPPENING IN AS SHE MENTIONS, 00:38:41.552 --> 00:38:42.486 SHASTA. 00:38:42.553 --> 00:38:45.389 AN ADDITIONAL SITE IN STANISLAUS. 00:38:45.456 --> 00:38:47.725 THERE ARE DETECTIONS, ADDITIONAL TRAPPING 00:38:47.792 --> 00:38:50.995 AND SERVING WITH RAPID RESPONSE PLANS HAPPENING FOR CONTRA 00:38:51.062 --> 00:38:54.031 COSTA, SANTA BARBARA, SAN MATEO, 00:38:54.265 --> 00:38:57.368 THREE LOCATIONS IN SACRAMENTO, AND AN ADDITIONAL LOCATION 00:38:57.435 --> 00:38:59.170 IN SANTA CLARA. SO IT'S IT'S A LOT. 00:39:00.371 --> 00:39:02.006 I HAVE TO, 00:39:02.073 --> 00:39:03.240 STATE THE OBVIOUS HERE, WHICH IS THAT 00:39:03.307 --> 00:39:06.310 WE ARE LOOKING AT A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF WORK, 00:39:06.510 --> 00:39:09.513 AND LIKELY ERADICATION EFFORTS COMING DOWN THE LINE, 00:39:10.014 --> 00:39:11.782 WITH LIMITED FINANCIAL RESOURCES. 00:39:11.849 --> 00:39:14.485 SO CURRENTLY OUR FOCUS IS THOSE TRACE FORWARDS, 00:39:14.552 --> 00:39:16.787 AND TRAPPING AND NOT ERADICATION. 00:39:16.854 --> 00:39:19.857 BUT THAT HAS TO BE SOMETHING THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT. 00:39:20.491 --> 00:39:22.960 SO WHEN ERADICATION EFFORTS ARE TRIGGERED, A QUARANTINE 00:39:23.027 --> 00:39:24.829 WITHIN A SET AREA IS ESTABLISHED. 00:39:24.895 --> 00:39:27.965 AND THAT RESTRICTS THE MOVEMENT OF COMMODITIES 00:39:28.032 --> 00:39:30.835 AND REGULATED MATERIALS OUTSIDE OF THAT AREA. 00:39:30.901 --> 00:39:33.270 SO THOSE COSTS CAN BE SIGNIFICANT 00:39:33.337 --> 00:39:36.340 TO GROWERS AS WELL AS LOCAL, STATE AND FEDERAL PARTNERS. 00:39:37.141 --> 00:39:39.810 IF WE LOOK AT EUROPEAN GRAPEVINE MOTH, WE DISCOVERED IT 00:39:39.877 --> 00:39:44.281 IN NAPA IN 2009, WE ERADICATED IT IN 2016. 00:39:44.548 --> 00:39:47.685 AND OVER THAT SEVEN YEAR TIME SPAN IN NAPA ALONE, 00:39:47.752 --> 00:39:48.519 WE SPENT 00:39:48.586 --> 00:39:49.854 100 MILLION TO ERADICATE, 00:39:49.920 --> 00:39:51.922 SO 50 MILLION TO GROWERS AND THEN 00:39:51.989 --> 00:39:54.925 50 MILLION TO OUR STATE, LOCAL AND FEDERAL PARTNERS. 00:39:54.992 --> 00:39:57.261 SO THAT, THAT'S NOT SUSTAINABLE. 00:39:57.328 --> 00:39:59.697 THE EMPHASIS SHOULD BE ON PREVENTION. 00:39:59.764 --> 00:40:01.565 COUNTIES AT THIS POINT ARE UNCERTAIN 00:40:01.632 --> 00:40:04.502 IF WE WILL BE MADE WHOLE FOR OUR CURRENT ACTIVITIES. 00:40:04.568 --> 00:40:05.503 SO WE ARE, 00:40:06.670 --> 00:40:10.574 LEFT TO MAKE DECISIONS ABOUT LIMITED RESOURCES. 00:40:10.641 --> 00:40:12.243 SO IN NAPA, 00:40:12.309 --> 00:40:15.279 I'M FORTUNATE I HAVE SUPPORT FROM THE COUNTY CEO 00:40:15.346 --> 00:40:17.548 AND OUR BOARD OF SUPERVISORS AND INDUSTRY. 00:40:17.615 --> 00:40:20.684 I HAVE THE BENEFIT OF A LOCAL WINE, GRAPE, PEST 00:40:20.751 --> 00:40:22.086 AND DISEASE CONTROL DISTRICT. 00:40:22.153 --> 00:40:25.389 SO NAPA WINE GRAPE GROWERS ASSESS THEMSELVES WILLINGLY. 00:40:25.456 --> 00:40:27.358 THEY VOTED TO DO IT. 00:40:27.424 --> 00:40:30.594 AND THOSE DOLLARS ARE DIRECTED BY THAT INDUSTRY 00:40:30.661 --> 00:40:31.495 BOARD OF DIRECTORS. 00:40:31.562 --> 00:40:34.565 AND SO THEY'RE SPENDING MONEY TO ENHANCE, 00:40:34.765 --> 00:40:37.768 AND I SAY ENHANCE, BUT REALLY, I MEAN, BACKFILL SOME OF THE, 00:40:38.269 --> 00:40:41.272 THE UNDERFUNDED STATE PROGRAMS, 00:40:41.872 --> 00:40:43.974 THEY'RE ALSO FUNDING RESEARCH EFFORTS BY OUR LOCAL, 00:40:44.041 --> 00:40:45.709 YOU SEE, VITICULTURE ADVISOR. 00:40:45.776 --> 00:40:46.710 THEY'RE SUPPORTING GROWER 00:40:46.777 --> 00:40:49.313 EDUCATIONAL SEMINARS AND BIO CONTROL EFFORTS. 00:40:49.380 --> 00:40:53.217 AND ALL OF THESE EFFORTS TIED TO PESTS LIKE VINE, MEALY BUG, 00:40:53.284 --> 00:40:56.821 RED BLOTCH, PIERCE'S DISEASE, SPOTTED LANTERNFLY AND MORE. 00:40:57.588 --> 00:41:00.858 SO I DON'T HAVE THE OPTION OF CHOOSING TO SCALE BACK, 00:41:01.425 --> 00:41:04.361 MY EFFORTS TO PROTECT AGRICULTURE IN NAPA, 00:41:04.428 --> 00:41:07.598 THE TOTAL ECONOMIC IMPACT LOCALLY OF THE WINE 00:41:07.665 --> 00:41:11.335 AND GRAPE INDUSTRY IN NAPA IS 11.7 BILLION, PROVIDING 00:41:11.402 --> 00:41:14.872 55,875 JOBS IN NAPA, 00:41:15.272 --> 00:41:18.776 NEARLY THREE OUT OF EVERY FOUR JOBS IN NAPA 00:41:18.843 --> 00:41:22.112 COUNTY ARE CONNECTED DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY TO WINE AND GRAPES, 00:41:22.746 --> 00:41:24.648 AS INDICATED IN THE ECONOMIC IMPACT STUDY 00:41:24.715 --> 00:41:26.417 COMMISSIONED BY THE NAPA VALLEY VINTNERS. 00:41:27.451 --> 00:41:29.587 SO BEFORE I CONCLUDE, I 00:41:29.653 --> 00:41:32.656 WANT TO TAKE A QUICK OPPORTUNITY TO INTRODUCE C3 PAY. 00:41:33.591 --> 00:41:35.793 THAT'S SEE THROUGH IS THE CALIFORNIA PEST 00:41:35.860 --> 00:41:39.396 PREVENTION PROGRAM ANALYSIS SAY THAT THREE TIMES REALLY FAST? 00:41:39.897 --> 00:41:41.866 THIS STUDY WAS FUNDED BY CASA, 00:41:41.932 --> 00:41:44.034 WHICH IS THE CALIFORNIA AGRICULTURAL COMMISSIONER 00:41:44.101 --> 00:41:47.171 AND SEALERS ASSOCIATION, IN PARTNERSHIP WITH CDPHE 00:41:47.238 --> 00:41:49.139 AND THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA. 00:41:49.206 --> 00:41:53.177 IT'S A COMPREHENSIVE 500 PLUS PAGE REPORT. 00:41:53.244 --> 00:41:56.247 SO I DIDN'T SEND IT TO YOU BECAUSE IT'S 500 PAGES. 00:41:56.947 --> 00:41:59.483 BUT IT EXAMINES STRATEGIES, TOOLS AND FUNDING 00:41:59.550 --> 00:42:02.720 REQUIRED TO MODERNIZE OUR PEST PREVENTION SYSTEMS, 00:42:03.621 --> 00:42:05.789 ALLOWING US TO KEEP PACE WITH TODAY'S CHALLENGES 00:42:05.856 --> 00:42:07.925 IN AGRICULTURE, ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP, 00:42:07.992 --> 00:42:09.326 AND BIODIVERSE CITY. 00:42:09.393 --> 00:42:13.063 THE LAST ANALYSIS OF THIS PEST PREVENTION SYSTEM WAS COMPLETED 00:42:13.130 --> 00:42:14.231 IN THE LATE 90S. 00:42:14.298 --> 00:42:17.034 SO, I MEAN, IT'S 30 YEARS AGO, 00:42:17.101 --> 00:42:19.003 AND A LOT HAS CHANGED SINCE THEN. 00:42:19.069 --> 00:42:20.571 I THINK I HEARD, 00:42:20.638 --> 00:42:22.606 TRADE ROUTES AND E-COMMERCE AND, 00:42:22.673 --> 00:42:25.209 AND THROUGH SHIPPING FACILITIES AND PARCEL FACILITIES. 00:42:25.276 --> 00:42:26.710 SO THERE ARE A LOT OF 00:42:26.777 --> 00:42:29.780 ADDITIONAL PATHWAYS THAT ARE IMPACTING AG, 00:42:30.014 --> 00:42:32.917 AND THE ENVIRONMENT AND OUR ECONOMIC LANDSCAPE. 00:42:32.983 --> 00:42:36.053 SO THROUGH C3, PA, THE INTENT IS TO PROVIDE A ROAD MAP 00:42:36.120 --> 00:42:39.490 FOR A RESILIENT PEST PREVENTION SYSTEM THAT ENSURES 00:42:39.990 --> 00:42:43.827 CALIFORNIA AGRICULTURE AND OUR FARMS AND OUR FARMERS 00:42:44.662 --> 00:42:46.897 CONTINUE TO THRIVE WHILE SAFEGUARDING OUR ENVIRONMENT 00:42:46.964 --> 00:42:48.165 AND NATURAL RESOURCES. 00:42:48.232 --> 00:42:50.801 SO THERE'S MORE TO COME ON THAT, 00:42:50.868 --> 00:42:51.335 WE SHOULD HAVE 00:42:51.402 --> 00:42:53.270 AN EXECUTIVE SUMMARY THAT WE'RE WORKING ON 00:42:53.337 --> 00:42:56.640 THAT WILL BE A MUCH MORE CONDENS 00:42:57.741 --> 00:43:00.210 BUT IN CONCLUSION, 00:43:00.277 --> 00:43:02.913 CALIFORNIA, CALIFORNIA AGRICULTURE, 00:43:02.980 --> 00:43:06.116 IT FEEDS ITS RESIDENTS, IT FEEDS THE NATION. 00:43:06.183 --> 00:43:07.618 IT FEEDS THE WORLD. 00:43:07.685 --> 00:43:10.354 SO IT'S WORTHY OF SUSTAINABLE AND ADEQUATE 00:43:10.421 --> 00:43:13.891 FUNDING LEVELS TO SUPPORT THE CONTINUED EXISTENCE OF IT 00:43:14.558 --> 00:43:16.894 AND TO SUPPORT OUR LOCAL FARMERS THAT ENGAGE. 00:43:16.961 --> 00:43:20.364 AND IN MY OPINION, ONE OF THE HARDEST JOBS THAT EXISTS. 00:43:20.431 --> 00:43:23.400 SO, THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND FOR YOUR SUPPORT. 00:43:30.941 --> 00:43:34.445 SO, SINCE THE ACRONYM SEEMS ALMOST PERFECTED, 00:43:34.511 --> 00:43:35.546 IS THERE ANY CHANCE 00:43:35.612 --> 00:43:38.682 THE ANALYSIS CONVERTS TO AN ORDER OF SOME KIND? 00:43:38.749 --> 00:43:41.752 SO WE WILL GET A C3PO? 00:43:43.520 --> 00:43:45.356 I WISH, I HOPE THAT'S THE HOPE. 00:43:45.422 --> 00:43:45.956 THAT'S THE HOPE. 00:43:46.023 --> 00:43:46.924 THAT WOULD BE WONDERFUL. 00:43:46.991 --> 00:43:49.994 OKAY. 00:43:51.328 --> 00:43:54.331 WELL. 00:43:54.798 --> 00:43:54.932 YEAH. 00:43:54.999 --> 00:43:57.167 I MEAN, I THINK THE I MEAN, YOU YOU YOU, 00:43:57.234 --> 00:43:59.636 YOU HIGHLIGHTED THE JUST THE IMMENSE EFFORT 00:43:59.703 --> 00:44:02.006 AND WORKLOAD THAT'S INVOLVED IN, IN THIS, 00:44:03.707 --> 00:44:06.710 ALWAYS AND THEN YOU ADD ON THESE PATHWAYS. 00:44:07.044 --> 00:44:08.645 LASTLY, ASSEMBLYMEMBER WAS SAYING WHICH 00:44:08.712 --> 00:44:10.080 WHICH WE WEREN'T DOING IN THE 90S, 00:44:10.147 --> 00:44:13.550 WE WEREN'T HAVING PLANTS DELIVERED TO OUR HOMES IN A BOX, 00:44:14.218 --> 00:44:15.552 WITH NO, WITH NO, 00:44:15.619 --> 00:44:18.622 NO, NO TAGGING OR ANY OTHER INFORMATION WHATSOEVER. 00:44:19.456 --> 00:44:19.890 YEAH. 00:44:19.957 --> 00:44:22.960 IN THIS PARTICULAR INCIDENT, IS IT 00:44:23.193 --> 00:44:26.397 DID DID COSTCO NEGLECT TO MAYBE THAT'S NOT THERE. 00:44:26.463 --> 00:44:27.631 I DON'T WANT TO USE ANY WORDS THAT HAVE 00:44:27.698 --> 00:44:28.732 LEGAL MEANINGS TO THEM. 00:44:28.799 --> 00:44:32.369 BUT I MEAN, IT WAS IT WAS COSTCO EXPECTED TO TAG 00:44:32.436 --> 00:44:35.439 AND DIDN'T LIKE WHERE WHERE IS THE SYSTEM. 00:44:35.839 --> 00:44:37.674 WHERE'S THE FAILURE. YEAH. 00:44:37.741 --> 00:44:39.610 IT WASN'T COSTCO. 00:44:39.676 --> 00:44:42.913 THE STATE HAS A, NURSERY PROGRAM AND IT'S RUN 00:44:42.980 --> 00:44:44.915 THROUGH THE PIERCE'S DISEASE CONTROL PROGRAM. 00:44:44.982 --> 00:44:49.520 SO THERE'S DIFFERENT TYPES OF, OF NURSERY PROGRAMS 00:44:49.586 --> 00:44:52.689 THAT A, A GROWER OR NURSERY CAN BE A PART OF. 00:44:52.756 --> 00:44:54.825 AND THERE'S THREE DIFFERENT PROGRAMS AND I WON'T 00:44:54.892 --> 00:44:58.028 GO INTO TOO MUCH DETAIL ON THEM, BUT THEY SORT OF DIFFER. 00:44:58.095 --> 00:45:01.398 SO IF YOU'RE IN A GENERALLY INFESTED AREA 00:45:01.465 --> 00:45:04.468 THEN ESSENTIALLY YOU'RE MANDATED TO HAVE TREATMENTS. 00:45:04.535 --> 00:45:07.538 SOMETIMES YOU'RE DICTATED WHICH PRODUCTS YOU CAN USE. 00:45:08.072 --> 00:45:11.442 AND THEN THERE MIGHT BE AN INSPECTION OF THAT TREATMENT 00:45:11.508 --> 00:45:15.045 AT THE ORIGIN NURSERY AND THEN AGAIN AT THE RECEIVING. 00:45:15.446 --> 00:45:17.514 I SAY ORIGIN NURSERY, ORIGIN COUNTY, 00:45:17.581 --> 00:45:20.084 AND THEN AGAIN AT THE RECEIVING COUNTY. 00:45:20.150 --> 00:45:21.718 AND THEN THAT'S WHERE THE PAPERWORK COMES IN. 00:45:21.785 --> 00:45:22.653 WE CALL IT A BLUE TAG, 00:45:22.719 --> 00:45:25.789 WHICH MEANS IT'S COMING FROM A POTENTIALLY HIGH RISK AREA. 00:45:25.856 --> 00:45:28.125 AND SO IT NEEDS AN EXTRA SET OF EYES. 00:45:28.192 --> 00:45:29.860 SO THE RECEIVING COUNTY 00:45:29.927 --> 00:45:32.463 THEN PRIORITIZES AND GOES AND INSPECTS. 00:45:32.529 --> 00:45:35.299 SO IN SOME VARIATION OF THESE PROGRAMS, 00:45:35.365 --> 00:45:38.035 ONE REQUIRES VERY SPECIFIC MATERIALS. 00:45:38.102 --> 00:45:41.105 ONE YOU HAVE THE OPTION OF HAVING MATERIALS AND ONE OF THEM 00:45:41.171 --> 00:45:43.440 A COUNTY CAN WITNESS THE APPLICATION. 00:45:43.507 --> 00:45:46.243 AND THEN IN ANOTHER THEY DON'T NECESSARILY HAVE TO, 00:45:46.310 --> 00:45:49.379 BUT THOSE SHIPMENTS USUALLY HAVE TO BE NOTICED. 00:45:49.446 --> 00:45:51.882 SO THE RECEIVING COUNTY HAS TO RECEIVE NOTICE. 00:45:51.949 --> 00:45:55.319 I THINK IT'S 24 HOURS IN ADVANCE SO THAT YOU KNOW IT'S COMING 00:45:55.385 --> 00:45:58.922 AND YOU CAN ASSIGN YOUR STAFF TO INSPECT THAT MATERIAL. SO, 00:45:59.890 --> 00:46:02.693 BELIEVE IT OR NOT, THE FRESNO NURSERY 00:46:02.759 --> 00:46:04.528 WAS THERE. 00:46:04.595 --> 00:46:07.064 I DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW, BUT THEY'RE ESSENTIALLY NOT 00:46:07.131 --> 00:46:10.334 IN A, IN A WHAT'S CONSIDERED AN INFESTED AREA. 00:46:10.400 --> 00:46:12.369 THEY'RE GENERALLY FREE FROM, 00:46:12.436 --> 00:46:14.571 EVEN THOUGH WE KNOW THAT THAT'S CLEARLY NOT THE CASE 00:46:14.638 --> 00:46:17.141 BECAUSE THOSE PLANTS WERE COVERED IN GLASS CEILING. 00:46:17.207 --> 00:46:19.109 SO THAT DEFINITELY POINTS TO THE FACT 00:46:19.176 --> 00:46:22.012 THAT THERE ARE SOME HOLES IN THE SYSTEM IN THE PROGRAM, 00:46:22.079 --> 00:46:25.082 AND THERE REALLY NEEDS TO BE AN OVERHAUL OF WHAT 00:46:25.315 --> 00:46:27.084 THAT NURSERY PROGRAM LOOKS LIKE. 00:46:27.151 --> 00:46:30.120 AND, WHAT THE PROGRAM AT THE STATE LEVEL IS. 00:46:32.856 --> 00:46:35.859 THOSE GENTLE. 00:46:36.560 --> 00:46:37.928 I'M TRYING. 00:46:37.995 --> 00:46:39.863 SO DON'T BLOW UP. 00:46:39.930 --> 00:46:41.598 OKAY. 00:46:41.665 --> 00:46:42.266 YEAH. 00:46:42.332 --> 00:46:45.335 WE I THINK THERE'S A LOT OF WORK WE CAN DO TO, 00:46:45.569 --> 00:46:48.572 REEVALUATE AND MAKE THEM BETTER. 00:46:49.039 --> 00:46:51.008 SO THEN IF IT IS, IF THERE'S A BLUE TAG AND IT'S 00:46:51.074 --> 00:46:55.078 COMING TO COSTCO IN, IN NAPA, THEN YOU, 00:46:55.512 --> 00:46:59.283 YOUR TEAM GOES OUT AND EVERY TIME AND EVERY TIME. YES. 00:46:59.583 --> 00:47:03.487 AND I MEAN, HOW MANY FOLKS ARE ON THE I COMMISSIONER'S TEAM 00:47:03.554 --> 00:47:04.421 FOR THIS PURPOSE? 00:47:04.488 --> 00:47:07.691 FOR NAPA, I HAVE, FULL TIME STAFF OF 30. 00:47:07.758 --> 00:47:09.893 THEY'RE ALL DOING DIFFERENT THINGS. INSPECTOR WISE. 00:47:09.960 --> 00:47:14.064 I HAVE, 13 INSPECTORS AND THEN TWO, 00:47:14.765 --> 00:47:16.600 THREE STANDARD SERVICE WORKERS. 00:47:16.667 --> 00:47:19.603 SO MY EXTENDED SERVICE WORKERS ARE SPECIFICALLY DOING, LIKE, 00:47:19.670 --> 00:47:20.804 TRAPPING AND, 00:47:22.172 --> 00:47:23.240 INSPECTIONS, AND THEN I'LL 00:47:23.307 --> 00:47:25.309 THROW MY INSPECTORS INTO IT AS NEEDED. 00:47:25.375 --> 00:47:26.710 SO IT'S IT'S A LOT. 00:47:26.777 --> 00:47:28.178 WE SPLIT IT USUALLY UP VALLEY. 00:47:28.245 --> 00:47:29.746 DOWN VALLEY. 00:47:29.813 --> 00:47:31.949 AND THEY JUST GO ALL OVER THE PLACE, ALL DAY LONG 00:47:32.015 --> 00:47:32.716 LOOKING AT PLANTS, 00:47:32.783 --> 00:47:36.853 COMING INTO ANY NURSERIES, ANY LANDSCAPE YARDS, ANYWHERE. 00:47:36.920 --> 00:47:38.855 EVEN RESIDENTS CAN CALL US AND WE'LL COME OUT 00:47:38.922 --> 00:47:41.925 AND INSPECT PLANTS IF THEY'RE RECEIVING THEM. 00:47:42.726 --> 00:47:44.995 THIS IS A MATURE THIS IS MATURITY. 00:47:45.062 --> 00:47:49.466 THE PLANT MAKE A DIFFERENCE ON THE GLASSY WING SHARPSHOOTER 00:47:49.533 --> 00:47:50.367 GOING AFTER IT. 00:47:50.434 --> 00:47:52.736 I MEAN, YOU KNOW, I'VE SEE FIELDS RIGHT NOW. 00:47:52.803 --> 00:47:54.104 ROOTSTOCK. 00:47:54.171 --> 00:47:55.739 AND THAT MAKES ME NERVOUS JUST THINKING 00:47:55.806 --> 00:47:58.642 ABOUT ALL THE ROOTSTOCK THAT'S GOING IN RIGHT NOW. 00:47:58.709 --> 00:48:01.411 AND WILL WE FIND IT THERE? 00:48:01.478 --> 00:48:02.746 I, I DON'T THINK SO. 00:48:02.813 --> 00:48:05.249 I PROBABLY DEFER TO DOCTOR CRON, BUT I DON'T THINK SO. 00:48:05.315 --> 00:48:06.183 REALLY. 00:48:06.250 --> 00:48:09.586 IT DOES HAVE A HUGE HOST LIST AND KIND OF HOW WE DISTINGUISH 00:48:09.653 --> 00:48:11.121 AS IF IT HAS A BIG ENOUGH 00:48:11.188 --> 00:48:13.924 LEAF FOR A GLASSY WING TO LAY AN EGG MASS ON, 00:48:13.991 --> 00:48:15.125 THEN IT'S PROBABLY A HOST. 00:48:15.192 --> 00:48:16.994 SO LAVENDER IS NOT SO MUCH AN ISSUE. 00:48:17.060 --> 00:48:18.295 BUT, YOU KNOW, CERTAINLY 00:48:18.362 --> 00:48:20.197 ELEPHANT EARS AND GRAPEVINES ARE, 00:48:20.264 --> 00:48:22.132 BUT I THINK THEY WOULD HAVE TO BE LEFT OUT. 00:48:23.600 --> 00:48:26.603 OKAY. 00:48:27.904 --> 00:48:29.273 WE LOOK AT GRAPEVINES TOO. 00:48:29.339 --> 00:48:30.941 SO AS, AS, 00:48:31.008 --> 00:48:34.044 VINEYARDS ARE REPLANTING, WE'RE LOOKING AT THOSE ALSO. 00:48:34.111 --> 00:48:38.015 AND WE'RE LOOKING FOR REALLY ANY PESTS AND VINE MEALYBUGS. 00:48:38.515 --> 00:48:41.184 OKAY. YEAH. 00:48:41.251 --> 00:48:44.721 AND SO FOR, FOR YOU GIVEN YOUR, YOUR EXPERTISE, 00:48:44.788 --> 00:48:45.856 YOUR EXPERIENCE IN THIS AREA 00:48:45.922 --> 00:48:47.591 AND JUST THE SHEER AMOUNT OF, OF, 00:48:47.658 --> 00:48:49.926 ATTENTION THAT YOU HAVE TO DEVOTE TO IT, 00:48:49.993 --> 00:48:52.329 I MEAN, DO YOU DO YOU FEEL LIKE 00:48:52.396 --> 00:48:55.899 WE'RE AT A YELLOW ALERT OR AN ORANGE ALERT OR RED ALERT? 00:48:55.966 --> 00:48:56.500 LIKE HOW? 00:48:56.566 --> 00:48:58.335 I MEAN, THIS IS ALWAYS A PROBLEM, RIGHT? 00:48:58.402 --> 00:48:59.636 THE THREAT OF INVASIVES 00:48:59.703 --> 00:49:01.171 AND SOME SOME KINDS OF INVASIVES 00:49:01.238 --> 00:49:03.740 ARE ALWAYS PRESENT IN SOME WAYS, WHICH IS WHY THE COUNTY 00:49:03.807 --> 00:49:05.342 COMMISSIONERS ARE SO IMPORTANT. 00:49:05.409 --> 00:49:08.312 BUT HOW DO YOU LIKE WHAT'S YOUR WHAT'S YOUR ASSESSMENT 00:49:08.378 --> 00:49:10.047 OR EVEN YOUR FEELING ABOUT KIND OF WHERE 00:49:10.113 --> 00:49:12.582 WE'RE AT TODAY IN TERMS OF THE LEVEL 00:49:12.649 --> 00:49:15.285 OF, OF CONCERN THAT WE SHOULD BE HAVING? 00:49:15.352 --> 00:49:18.488 IF I WOULD, IF RED IS THE WORST, I WOULD SAY RED. 00:49:18.722 --> 00:49:20.123 I MEAN, WE'RE 00:49:20.190 --> 00:49:22.392 BECAUSE IF WE'RE TALKING ABOUT GLASSY 00:49:22.459 --> 00:49:24.494 WING AND PIERCE'S DISEASE TODAY, BUT REALLY 00:49:24.561 --> 00:49:27.531 THERE ARE SO MANY INVASIVE PESTS AND WE KNOW 00:49:27.597 --> 00:49:29.599 THAT THERE ARE PATHWAYS THAT WE ARE NOT COVERING. 00:49:29.666 --> 00:49:33.170 WE WE HAVE, THINGS COMING IN AND OUT OF THE STATE 00:49:33.236 --> 00:49:36.073 THAT WE'RE NOT ABLE TO INSPECT OR LOOK AT. 00:49:36.139 --> 00:49:38.709 PEOPLE ARE BRINGING THINGS IN OVER BORDER STATIONS. 00:49:38.775 --> 00:49:41.678 THEY ARE FLYING WITH THEM INTERNATIONALLY, DOMESTICALLY, 00:49:41.745 --> 00:49:43.613 THEY'RE SHIPPING THEM IN THE MAIL. 00:49:43.680 --> 00:49:46.750 THERE'S A LOT OF A LOT OF THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING 00:49:46.817 --> 00:49:48.685 THAT WE NEED BETTER OVERSIGHT OVER. 00:49:48.752 --> 00:49:52.556 SO I THINK, SOME OF MY PARTNERS WOULD SAY, OH, YOU KNOW, WE'RE 00:49:52.622 --> 00:49:53.557 WE'RE DOING OKAY 00:49:53.623 --> 00:49:56.727 AND WE'RE DOING A GOOD JOB, BUT WE NEED TO DO MORE. 00:49:56.793 --> 00:49:58.995 I MEAN, THAT'S THE REALITY. THEY'RE THEY'RE GETTING IN. 00:49:59.062 --> 00:50:01.665 AND IT AT A CERTAIN POINT THEY WILL BECOME ESTABLISHED. 00:50:01.732 --> 00:50:02.566 AND THEN 00:50:02.632 --> 00:50:05.635 WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT ERADICATION INSTEAD OF PREVENTION, 00:50:06.103 --> 00:50:08.805 LIKE COMMON SENSE GOES OUT THE WINDOW. 00:50:08.872 --> 00:50:11.041 AND SO DOES ANY KIND OF REASONABLE BUDGET. 00:50:14.010 --> 00:50:14.177 ALL RIGHT. 00:50:14.244 --> 00:50:16.146 SO WE ARE DOING BETTER. 00:50:16.213 --> 00:50:18.315 BUT THE THREAT SCAPE IS GETTING 00:50:18.382 --> 00:50:20.283 MORE INTENSE AND MORE EXTENSIVE. 00:50:20.350 --> 00:50:22.052 YES. THE SAME TIME. YES. 00:50:22.119 --> 00:50:22.319 YEAH. 00:50:22.386 --> 00:50:25.655 COUNTY OUTPACING OUR ABILITY TO TO CONTINUE TO IMPROVE 00:50:25.722 --> 00:50:27.824 AND TO GET BETTER AT IT. YES. YEAH. 00:50:27.891 --> 00:50:30.794 AND LIKE COUNTY AND COMMIT WERE 00:50:30.861 --> 00:50:31.528 WELL THE STATE IN GENERAL 00:50:31.595 --> 00:50:34.598 ARE ALL STRUGGLING RIGHT WITH BUDGETS AND WITH 00:50:34.831 --> 00:50:36.566 MAYBE MAKING CUTS AT EACH OF OUR COUNTIES 00:50:36.633 --> 00:50:39.236 DEPENDING ON WHAT OUR BOARD NEEDS AND IS ASKING US TO DO. 00:50:39.302 --> 00:50:41.705 SO WE'RE DOING MORE WITH LESS. 00:50:41.772 --> 00:50:44.775 AND, THAT'S NOT SUSTAINABLE. 00:50:47.978 --> 00:50:48.245 ALL RIGHT. 00:50:48.311 --> 00:50:49.513 WELL, 00:50:49.579 --> 00:50:51.047 COMMISSIONER CLEVELAND, I KNOW YOU 00:50:51.114 --> 00:50:52.983 PROBABLY NEEDED TO BE AT COSTCO THIS AFTERNOON 00:50:53.049 --> 00:50:53.750 CHECKING A COUPLE 00:50:53.817 --> 00:50:56.853 THINGS YOURSELF JUST TO KEEP UP, TO KEEP UP WITH THE BACKLOG. 00:50:56.920 --> 00:50:59.222 BUT WE VERY MUCH APPRECIATE YOU TAKING THE TIME 00:50:59.289 --> 00:51:00.924 TO BE WITH US AND SHARE YOUR EXPERTISE. 00:51:00.991 --> 00:51:03.493 AND, WITH US. THANK YOU. 00:51:03.560 --> 00:51:06.062 SO LET'S TURN NEXT TO TO JOSH RUBIN IS THE DIRECTOR 00:51:06.129 --> 00:51:09.332 OF SUSTAINABLE FINANCE AT THE BANK OF MONTREAL OR BMO'S. 00:51:09.399 --> 00:51:10.700 WE'LL BE HEARING ABOUT IT 00:51:10.767 --> 00:51:12.602 FOR THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON TO SHARE WITH US 00:51:12.669 --> 00:51:14.838 SOME AN ECONOMIC LENS ON THE SITUATION. 00:51:14.905 --> 00:51:16.840 WELCOME. ABSOLUTELY. THANK YOU SO MUCH. 00:51:16.907 --> 00:51:19.509 THANK YOU FOR THE COMMITTEE FOR FOR HAVING US. YEAH. 00:51:19.576 --> 00:51:20.544 AND FOR THOSE OF YOU 00:51:20.610 --> 00:51:22.746 THAT DON'T KNOW, YOU KNOW, BANK IN MONTREAL, 00:51:22.813 --> 00:51:25.449 OF COURSE, ACQUIRED BANK OF THE WEST, JUST A FEW YEARS AGO. 00:51:25.515 --> 00:51:27.050 SO YOU MAY BE MORE FAMILIAR WITH, 00:51:28.018 --> 00:51:28.518 WITH, 00:51:28.585 --> 00:51:31.588 THAT BANK, WHICH, OF COURSE, IS NOW PART OF OUR OPERATIONS. 00:51:31.788 --> 00:51:33.557 I'M IN THE SUSTAINABLE FINANCE TEAM, 00:51:33.623 --> 00:51:36.626 BUT AS YOU PROBABLY KNOW, YOU MAY HAVE SEEN OUR, 00:51:36.693 --> 00:51:40.697 24, 25 AND 26, WINE MARKET REPORTS THAT WE'VE PUT OUT. 00:51:40.764 --> 00:51:43.700 SO WE HAVE QUITE A LARGE, 00:51:43.767 --> 00:51:46.369 WINE AND BEVERAGE BOOK, INCLUDING, 00:51:46.436 --> 00:51:50.407 NAPA, SONOMA AND, YOU KNOW, BITS OF THE CENTRAL VALLEY AS WELL. 00:51:51.241 --> 00:51:54.478 SO WE REALLY GET A GOOD, LISTEN, I THINK TO WHAT, 00:51:54.978 --> 00:51:57.581 GROWERS AND PRODUCERS ARE FACING RIGHT NOW, 00:51:57.647 --> 00:52:00.650 YOU KNOW, I WON'T DIVE TOO MUCH INTO SOME OF THE, 00:52:01.351 --> 00:52:03.954 LESS THAN THRILLING ECONOMIC DETAILS 00:52:04.020 --> 00:52:06.556 AS FAR AS THE DOWNTURN IS CONCERNED. 00:52:06.623 --> 00:52:09.359 NOR DO WE WANT TO STEAL ANY MICHAEL'S, THUNDER HERE, BUT. 00:52:09.426 --> 00:52:11.294 YEAH, OBVIOUSLY, 00:52:11.361 --> 00:52:13.263 AN ABSOLUTE SHIFT, RIGHT? 00:52:13.330 --> 00:52:16.433 REALLY DRIVEN BY A DECREASE IN CONSUMER DEMAND 00:52:16.766 --> 00:52:20.337 THAT'S REALLY REDUCING, TOTAL TONS CRUSHED. 00:52:20.403 --> 00:52:21.438 RIGHT. 00:52:21.505 --> 00:52:25.108 TOTAL NUMBER OF PLANTED AND BEARING ACRES IN CALIFORNIA. 00:52:25.408 --> 00:52:28.879 AND IT REALLY IS, YOU KNOW, SEISMIC, RIGHT, IS PERHAPS, 00:52:29.279 --> 00:52:30.080 UNDERESTIMATED. 00:52:30.146 --> 00:52:33.817 SO IF WE'RE LOOKING FROM, YOU KNOW, A PEAK, WINE GRAPE 00:52:33.884 --> 00:52:39.155 CRUSH IN, 2018 OF 4.5, YOU KNOW, MILLIONS APPROXIMATE 00:52:39.489 --> 00:52:40.590 A FEW DIFFERENT REPORTS OUT THERE. 00:52:40.657 --> 00:52:44.928 MILLION TONS, DOWN TO 2.8, MOST RECENTLY IN 2025. 00:52:44.995 --> 00:52:47.297 RIGHT. SO 40% REDUCTION. 00:52:47.364 --> 00:52:50.033 SO YOU CAN IMAGINE HOW THAT REVERBERATES, RIGHT? 00:52:50.100 --> 00:52:53.003 IT'S ALL BEING GROWN AT SOME POINT. RIGHT. 00:52:53.069 --> 00:52:54.471 SO IF YOU DO THE MATH, YOU'RE 00:52:54.538 --> 00:52:56.706 YOU'RE MISSING AROUND KIND OF 30%. 00:52:56.773 --> 00:52:57.407 AND THAT THOSE ARE 00:52:57.474 --> 00:53:00.544 SOME ESTIMATES OF HOW MUCH FRUIT WAS ACTUALLY LEFT ON THE VINE, 00:53:00.610 --> 00:53:02.579 LAST YEAR, PARTICULARLY IN SONOMA COUNTY. 00:53:02.646 --> 00:53:05.081 SO REALLY BIG SHIFT. RIGHT. 00:53:05.148 --> 00:53:08.184 AND AS YOU CAN IMAGINE, 00:53:08.251 --> 00:53:11.221 IT'S THE IT ALWAYS HITS THE FRONT LINE. 00:53:11.288 --> 00:53:13.924 PRODUCERS THE MOST. RIGHT. 00:53:13.990 --> 00:53:15.725 GROWERS, WINEMAKERS. RIGHT. 00:53:15.792 --> 00:53:19.529 EVEN BY OUR OWN NUMBERS, YOU SEE THAT TOTAL CONSUMER SPEND? 00:53:20.030 --> 00:53:25.268 INCREASED TO ABOUT 120 BILLION RIGHT IN, IN 2025. 00:53:25.335 --> 00:53:26.403 AND THEY'LL SAY, OH, THAT'S GREAT. 00:53:26.469 --> 00:53:27.203 THAT'S AN INCREASE. 00:53:27.270 --> 00:53:29.839 THAT'S ABOUT 4 OR 5% OVER LAST YEAR. 00:53:29.906 --> 00:53:33.043 BUT IF YOU LOOK AT TOTAL INFLATION, RIGHT. 00:53:33.410 --> 00:53:35.712 WHICH IS REALLY OCCURRED, 00:53:35.779 --> 00:53:38.548 KIND OF AFTER THAT WINERY GATE, IF YOU WILL. 00:53:38.615 --> 00:53:41.184 IT'S REALLY OCCURRED AT ON PREMISE AND RETAIL. 00:53:41.251 --> 00:53:44.254 THE SHARE GOING BACK TO PRODUCERS IS ACTUALLY SHRUNK. 00:53:44.588 --> 00:53:45.322 RIGHT. 00:53:45.388 --> 00:53:47.524 AND WHY IS THAT SO IMPORTANT? 00:53:47.591 --> 00:53:48.825 PARTICULARLY WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT 00:53:48.892 --> 00:53:51.895 INVASIVE PEST AND GLASSY WING SHARPSHOOTER IN PARTICULAR, 00:53:52.095 --> 00:53:54.965 THAT'S, YOU KNOW, YOU GOT TO CUT LINE SOMEWHERE, RIGHT? 00:53:55.031 --> 00:53:56.366 AND UNFORTUNATELY, PEST 00:53:56.433 --> 00:53:59.436 CONTROL IS ALWAYS ON THE CHOPPING BLOCK. 00:53:59.836 --> 00:54:02.072 YOU KNOW, SOME LISTENING TO OUR, 00:54:03.373 --> 00:54:04.908 YOU KNOW, CLIENTS, YOU THEY'VE BEEN ABLE TO GET 00:54:04.975 --> 00:54:09.145 SOME PRICING INCREASES, RIGHT, BUT IT'S PRETTY MINIMAL. 00:54:09.813 --> 00:54:11.915 SO REALLY WHAT THAT THE END RESULT IS? 00:54:11.982 --> 00:54:13.049 OH, I'VE GOT TO CUT SOMETHING. 00:54:13.116 --> 00:54:15.151 I GOTTA LOOK AT MY OPERATING BUDGET AND 00:54:15.218 --> 00:54:17.621 AND FIND SOMETHING THERE, AND THAT'S WHY. 00:54:17.687 --> 00:54:20.991 AND WE HIT ON IT EARLIER THAT LIKE THE NUMBERS OF PLANTS 00:54:21.057 --> 00:54:23.093 INVOLVED, YOU KNOW, ONLY A FEW PLANTS HERE. 00:54:23.159 --> 00:54:25.261 INFECTED. RIGHT. IT MAY SEEM. 00:54:25.328 --> 00:54:27.597 WHY DO WE CARE ABOUT THAT? THAT'S SO SMALL. RIGHT. 00:54:27.664 --> 00:54:31.334 BUT THE POTENTIAL FOR THESE TO BECOME SUCH A LARGE PROBLEM, 00:54:32.102 --> 00:54:35.338 BOTH COUNTIES AND STATEWIDE IS HUGE, RIGHT? 00:54:35.905 --> 00:54:37.240 BECAUSE YOU IMAGINE THAT'S JUST THAT. 00:54:37.307 --> 00:54:41.311 THAT EASY LINE ITEM TO CUT, IN. 00:54:42.045 --> 00:54:45.181 AND REALLY, IF WE LOOK AT ALL KIND OF STEP BACK A LITTLE BIT, 00:54:46.249 --> 00:54:48.385 I'M GOING TO TRANSITION INTO THIS ISSUE OF, 00:54:48.451 --> 00:54:50.553 OKAY, SO WE'VE, WE'VE REMOVED THOSE VINES. RIGHT. 00:54:50.620 --> 00:54:53.223 AND A LOT OF REMOVAL IS DONE CORRECTLY. 00:54:53.289 --> 00:54:55.692 YOU COMPLETELY RIP OUT ALL YOUR GRAPEVINES, RIGHT? 00:54:55.759 --> 00:54:57.861 YOU TRY TO PULL AS MUCH RESIDUAL, 00:54:57.927 --> 00:55:00.897 GRAPE VINE MATERIAL AS POSSIBLE SO YOU DON'T HAVE MUCH. 00:55:00.964 --> 00:55:04.300 OF A HOST LEFT IN THAT HOPEFULLY FALLOW FIELD. 00:55:04.634 --> 00:55:05.735 IT'S VERY DIFFERENT IF YOU JUST TRY 00:55:05.802 --> 00:55:07.937 TO HIT A PAUSE BUTTON ON A VINEYARD OPERATION. RIGHT. 00:55:08.004 --> 00:55:09.572 YOU REALLY CAN'T DO THAT. 00:55:09.639 --> 00:55:10.106 I KNOW THERE'S 00:55:10.173 --> 00:55:11.141 A VERY LARGE GROWERS 00:55:11.207 --> 00:55:14.210 THAT ARE CLAIMING TO BE ABLE TO DO THAT EFFECTIVELY. 00:55:14.577 --> 00:55:16.079 BUT YOU NEED MAINTENANCE SPRAYS. 00:55:16.146 --> 00:55:19.215 MOST IMPORTANTLY, WHEN IT COMES TO GLASS WING SHARPSHOOTER, 00:55:19.282 --> 00:55:22.352 YOU NEED TRAPPING AND YOU NEED VINEYARD SCOUTING, RIGHT? 00:55:22.419 --> 00:55:24.954 EVENTUALLY WE'LL HAVE ROBOTS THAT DO IT ALL FOR US, 00:55:25.021 --> 00:55:27.490 BUT YOU STILL NEED PEOPLE IN THE FIELD 00:55:27.557 --> 00:55:28.658 LOOKING FOR THOSE PROBLEMS. 00:55:28.725 --> 00:55:31.961 SO IF THAT BECOMES A LINE ITEM THAT YOU GET RID OF, 00:55:32.028 --> 00:55:33.329 YOU KNOW, YOU KIND OF HAVE THE SLIPPAGE 00:55:33.396 --> 00:55:35.365 WHERE YOU'RE GOING TO GET THESE, THESE PESTS, 00:55:35.432 --> 00:55:37.967 YOU KNOW, JUST KIND OF PASSES OUR, OUR RADAR, 00:55:38.034 --> 00:55:38.168 YOU KNOW, 00:55:38.234 --> 00:55:39.469 KIND OF THROUGH THE FILTER IN OUR VINEYARD 00:55:39.536 --> 00:55:42.038 AND BECOMES A REALLY BIG PROBLEM. 00:55:42.105 --> 00:55:44.240 AND THAT'S WHERE, YOU KNOW, 00:55:44.307 --> 00:55:49.079 ABANDONED AND, AND UNMAINTAINED VINEYARDS BECOME 00:55:49.379 --> 00:55:52.382 I THINK YOU MENTIONED IT EARLIER, SENATOR KIM, 00:55:52.582 --> 00:55:54.050 ABOUT THAT INTERSECTION. 00:55:54.117 --> 00:55:54.451 RIGHT. 00:55:54.517 --> 00:55:54.851 IS LIKE, 00:55:54.918 --> 00:55:56.986 WELL, WE GOT ECONOMIC STRESS AND THEN, OKAY, 00:55:57.053 --> 00:55:58.688 WE HAVE GLASSBLOWING SHARPSHOOTER. 00:55:58.755 --> 00:56:02.258 AND IT'S REALLY THAT COMBINATION THAT COULD LEAD TO, 00:56:03.426 --> 00:56:06.096 ALARMING RED SAID FLAGS, POTENTIAL DISASTER, ETC. 00:56:06.162 --> 00:56:06.696 RED FLAG ALREADY. 00:56:06.763 --> 00:56:09.566 SO THAT'S ILLEGAL. 00:56:09.632 --> 00:56:12.502 BUT AND IF WE LOOK BACK TO TEMECULA, RIGHT. 00:56:12.569 --> 00:56:13.002 AND GRANTED, 00:56:13.069 --> 00:56:16.172 OUR TOOLS WERE SOMEWHAT LIMITED IN THAT OUTBREAK. 00:56:16.539 --> 00:56:20.844 PART OF WHAT MADE IT SO BAD WAS YOU HAD THESE HUGE, 00:56:21.745 --> 00:56:24.848 RESERVOIRS IN CITRUS, UNTREATED CITRUS GROVES 00:56:24.914 --> 00:56:28.251 RIGHT NEXT TO THESE PRODUCING GRAPEVINES. 00:56:28.651 --> 00:56:32.856 SO YOU IMAGINE THAT NOW, THESE KIND OF UNFORMED, 00:56:32.922 --> 00:56:36.993 UNMANAGED VINEYARDS ARE OUT THERE AND CAN BE A, 00:56:37.327 --> 00:56:40.330 POTENTIAL, RESIDUUM, IF YOU WILL, OR, 00:56:41.164 --> 00:56:41.631 YEAH. 00:56:41.698 --> 00:56:44.167 FOR PIERCE'S DISEASE AND OBVIOUSLY THE GLASSY 00:56:44.234 --> 00:56:44.901 SHARPSHOOTER. 00:56:44.968 --> 00:56:48.171 SO, YOU KNOW, I THINK THAT REALLY BECOMES 00:56:48.238 --> 00:56:51.341 THE THREAT IN THE DANGER. 00:56:51.407 --> 00:56:54.511 AND, AND WE REALLY HAVE TO PAY ATTENTION TO THAT. 00:56:54.577 --> 00:56:57.013 SO IF YOU LOOK AT, SAY, THE LAST THREE YEARS, HOPEFULLY 00:56:57.080 --> 00:57:00.250 I'M NOT STEALING YOUR THUNDER HERE, YOU KNOW, 120,000 00:57:01.684 --> 00:57:04.320 ACRES OF GRAPEVINES PULLED OUT STATEWIDE. 00:57:04.387 --> 00:57:05.221 YOU KNOW HOW MUCH 00:57:05.288 --> 00:57:08.491 OF THAT WAS DONE EFFECTIVELY, THAT THERE'S NO RESIDUAL, 00:57:09.058 --> 00:57:11.227 GRAPEVINES LEFT? IS IS A BIG QUESTION. RIGHT. 00:57:11.294 --> 00:57:15.632 AND I THINK WE NEED TO ALLOCATE FUNDS TO TO STUDY THAT. 00:57:15.698 --> 00:57:19.102 YOU KNOW, I TRIED TO FIND SOME ESTIMATIONS 00:57:19.169 --> 00:57:21.838 OF HOW MANY ABANDONED OR UNMANAGED VINEYARDS. 00:57:21.905 --> 00:57:23.940 IT'S PROBABLY THOUSANDS TO 10,000. 00:57:24.007 --> 00:57:26.976 IT MAY NOT BE A HUGE NUMBER, BUT IT'S A SIGNIFICANT NUMBER 00:57:27.043 --> 00:57:30.046 RIGHT, THAT WE NEED TO KEEP TRACK OF. 00:57:30.547 --> 00:57:33.917 I THINK, STATE SENATE BILL 732 00:57:34.284 --> 00:57:37.854 WAS A REALLY GOOD STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION. 00:57:37.921 --> 00:57:38.288 RIGHT. 00:57:38.354 --> 00:57:42.225 THAT ALLOWS FOR FINES TO BE, KIND OF ESTABLISHED 00:57:42.292 --> 00:57:45.295 FOR THESE UNMANAGED VINEYARDS. 00:57:45.628 --> 00:57:47.363 BUT IF YOU LOOK AT THE ECONOMICS OF IT, 00:57:47.430 --> 00:57:48.731 YOU KNOW, VINEYARD REMOVAL, 00:57:48.798 --> 00:57:50.366 OF COURSE, IT DEPENDS ON WHERE YOU ARE. 00:57:50.433 --> 00:57:53.403 COULD BE 5000 TO 10,000 PER ACRE. 00:57:53.469 --> 00:57:57.106 YOU KNOW, THE MAXIMUM PENALTY FOR SB 732, 00:57:57.540 --> 00:57:57.941 YOU KNOW, 00:57:58.007 --> 00:57:59.475 IF WE EVEN GET TO THE PENALTY PHASE, 00:57:59.542 --> 00:58:01.845 EVERYTHING SHOULD START AS A CONVERSATION, RIGHT? 00:58:01.911 --> 00:58:02.779 I KNOW THE, 00:58:03.780 --> 00:58:06.416 IS REALLY 500 TO 1000, RIGHT? 00:58:06.482 --> 00:58:09.452 SO YOU ALMOST HAVE, YOU KNOW, A TAX NUMBER. 00:58:09.853 --> 00:58:12.355 THAT'S VERY DIFFICULT FOR THE GROWER, 00:58:12.422 --> 00:58:13.823 YOU KNOW, OR THE WINERY WITH THE STATE 00:58:13.890 --> 00:58:15.758 VINEYARD TO, TO OVERCOME. RIGHT. 00:58:15.825 --> 00:58:19.596 SO IT MAY BE UNFORTUNATELY THE LAST THE, 00:58:20.163 --> 00:58:22.198 THE PATH OF LEAST RESISTANCE, RIGHT. 00:58:22.265 --> 00:58:24.133 OLDEST WILL PUT THAT VINEYARD ON PAUSE RIGHT NOW. 00:58:24.200 --> 00:58:25.301 WE'LL SPRAY IT A COUPLE TIMES. 00:58:25.368 --> 00:58:26.803 YOU KNOW, WE SHOULD BE GOOD, RIGHT? 00:58:26.870 --> 00:58:31.774 THAT THAT IS WHAT WE REALLY NEED TO WORRY ABOUT, RIGHT. 00:58:32.075 --> 00:58:35.078 AND, YOU KNOW, I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO 00:58:35.645 --> 00:58:38.848 REMEMBER THAT IDEALLY, YOU KNOW, THE WINE GRAPE 00:58:38.915 --> 00:58:42.652 GROWER DOESN'T HAVE THIS BURDEN THEMSELVES, RIGHT? 00:58:42.719 --> 00:58:44.454 I THINK THERE, YOU KNOW, AND HOPEFULLY THERE'S 00:58:44.520 --> 00:58:46.356 SOME FUNDING, YOU KNOW, ALLOCATED SOMEWHERE. 00:58:46.422 --> 00:58:48.625 WE CERTAINLY TALK ABOUT IT MORE, 00:58:48.691 --> 00:58:50.293 FOR A COMPLETE VINEYARD REMOVAL. RIGHT. 00:58:50.360 --> 00:58:51.561 IF YOU HAVE THESE 00:58:51.628 --> 00:58:54.130 VINEYARDS IN DISTRESS, THERE COULD BE A CHANGE OF OWNERSHIP. 00:58:54.197 --> 00:58:55.999 I MEAN, SOME ESTIMATES ARE ABOUT 00:58:56.065 --> 00:59:00.136 WE COULD HAVE 30% OF THE CALIFORNIA WINE GRAPE INDUSTRY 00:59:00.603 --> 00:59:03.773 KIND OF SHAKEN OUT OR GOBBLED UP OR PURCHASED BY SOMEBODY ELSE 00:59:03.840 --> 00:59:06.809 OR NOT REALLY ACTIVE IN THE NEXT 2 TO 3 YEARS. 00:59:06.876 --> 00:59:07.143 RIGHT. 00:59:07.210 --> 00:59:11.481 SO THE POTENTIAL, TO HAVE THESE UNMANAGED ACRES IS HUGE. 00:59:11.547 --> 00:59:13.983 YOU KNOW, HAVING FUNDS AVAILABLE FOR COMPLETE REMOVAL 00:59:14.050 --> 00:59:16.753 AND INVENTORY FIRST AND THEN COMPLETE REMOVAL, 00:59:16.819 --> 00:59:19.656 YOU KNOW, I THINK IS, INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT. 00:59:19.722 --> 00:59:20.056 RIGHT. 00:59:21.991 --> 00:59:24.494 THOSE ARE KIND OF THE MAIN POINTS YOU KNOW, THAT I WANTED 00:59:24.560 --> 00:59:28.331 TO, YOU KNOW, TALK ABOUT TODAY BECAUSE I SEE THAT AS, 00:59:29.499 --> 00:59:31.334 REALLY THE GREATEST RISK, RIGHT? 00:59:31.401 --> 00:59:34.404 THE, THE INTERSECTION RIGHT OF THIS, 00:59:35.772 --> 00:59:37.507 REALLY ESSENTIALLY THE THE GROWER IS GOING 00:59:37.573 --> 00:59:39.242 TO HAVE LESS MONEY, RIGHT? 00:59:39.309 --> 00:59:40.710 THEY NEED TO MAKE A DECISION. 00:59:40.777 --> 00:59:43.646 AND THIS PENDING THREAT, RIGHT, OF RESIDUAL, 00:59:43.713 --> 00:59:46.649 I MEAN, THESE UNMANAGED VINEYARDS, 00:59:46.716 --> 00:59:49.385 YOU KNOW, A MUCH GREATER CONVERSATION. 00:59:49.452 --> 00:59:51.654 AND THIS MAY BE A BIT OUT OF SCOPE, 00:59:51.721 --> 00:59:53.289 YOU KNOW, FOR WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT 00:59:53.356 --> 00:59:57.360 TODAY IS JUST KIND OF THE FUTURE OF LAND USE OVERALL, RIGHT? 00:59:58.261 --> 01:00:01.030 PARTICULARLY IN, YOU KNOW, HEAVILY IMPACTED COUNTIES. 01:00:01.097 --> 01:00:01.431 RIGHT. 01:00:01.497 --> 01:00:03.166 NAPA, SONOMA, 01:00:03.232 --> 01:00:06.169 COASTAL COUNTIES, WE CAN, YOU KNOW, WHAT ARE OUR OPTIONS 01:00:06.235 --> 01:00:07.236 IF WE'RE GOING OUT OF. GREAT. 01:00:07.303 --> 01:00:09.539 FINE. IDEALLY, WE TALKED ABOUT FALLOW, RIGHT. 01:00:09.605 --> 01:00:12.308 BUT THAT'S UNECONOMIC FOR A WHILE, YOU KNOW, 01:00:12.375 --> 01:00:13.543 WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO THAT LAND. 01:00:13.609 --> 01:00:16.346 IS IT AVAILABLE FOR GROUNDWATER RECHARGE. 01:00:16.412 --> 01:00:19.849 YOU KNOW, CONSERVATION ENERGY PRODUCTION. 01:00:19.916 --> 01:00:20.550 RIGHT. 01:00:20.616 --> 01:00:23.386 I, I GUESS YOU DID WARN ME ABOUT THAT LAND. MINE. 01:00:23.453 --> 01:00:25.021 SO I DIDN'T STEP ALL THAT INTENTIONALLY. 01:00:26.923 --> 01:00:29.459 BUT I THINK IT'S A REALLY IMPORTANT PART, 01:00:29.525 --> 01:00:33.363 AND WE REALLY HAVE TO LOOK AT THIS NOT JUST AS A 01:00:33.429 --> 01:00:37.433 SHAKE UP AND A RIGHTSIZING OF THE WINE, GRAPE 01:00:37.500 --> 01:00:40.436 AND WINE INDUSTRY IN CALIFORNIA, BUT CALIFORNIA AGRICULTURE 01:00:40.503 --> 01:00:42.171 AS A WHOLE. RIGHT. 01:00:42.238 --> 01:00:44.407 AND WHAT WHAT CROPS COME IN? 01:00:44.474 --> 01:00:45.174 I MEAN, I, 01:00:45.241 --> 01:00:47.777 I WENT THROUGH THE VITICULTURE ENOLOGY PROGRAM HERE 01:00:47.844 --> 01:00:49.278 AND I ACTUALLY STUDIED PIERCE'S DISEASE. 01:00:49.345 --> 01:00:51.981 SO I SAW THE AGAVE PLANTS. 01:00:52.048 --> 01:00:54.250 WHEN I DROVE HERE, I THOUGHT THAT WAS SO COOL. 01:00:54.317 --> 01:00:56.953 BUT, I MEAN, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO SWITCH SOME CROPS. 01:00:57.020 --> 01:00:58.988 I THINK IN THE VALLEY IT CAN BE A LITTLE BIT EASIER 01:00:59.055 --> 01:01:02.492 ON THE ECONOMICS, BUT FOR COASTAL NAPA AND SONOMA, 01:01:02.725 --> 01:01:05.395 THERE'S ONLY A FEW CROPS THAT WE CAN SWITCH TO. 01:01:05.461 --> 01:01:07.563 PREMIUM OLIVES, FLORICULTURE. 01:01:07.630 --> 01:01:09.265 RIGHT. THE LIST BECOMES PRETTY SMALL. 01:01:09.332 --> 01:01:09.866 SO I THINK 01:01:09.932 --> 01:01:13.669 THERE'S A MUCH LARGER QUESTION NOT FOR US TO SOLVE TODAY IS, 01:01:13.936 --> 01:01:16.839 YEAH, HOW WE MANAGE THESE LANDS IN THE, 01:01:16.906 --> 01:01:19.475 GLOBAL FRAMEWORK OF, YOU KNOW, CALIFORNIA AGRICULTURE. 01:01:19.542 --> 01:01:20.910 AND I'LL, I'LL STOP THERE. 01:01:22.945 --> 01:01:23.713 WELL, YOU BROUGHT IT UP. 01:01:23.780 --> 01:01:26.249 AND WHERE IN YOLO COUNTY IS AGAVE? ONE OF THE. 01:01:26.315 --> 01:01:28.151 IT WASN'T ON DOCTOR CRAIG'S LIST, BUT IS THAT 01:01:28.217 --> 01:01:31.220 IS THAT A HOST SPECIES AS WELL FOR 01:01:32.121 --> 01:01:34.390 FOR THE SHARPSHOOTER 01:01:34.457 --> 01:01:35.358 OKAY. 01:01:35.425 --> 01:01:36.926 SHOULD NOT BE, BUT WE'LL FIND OUT. 01:01:36.993 --> 01:01:39.062 WE'LL GET BACK TO YOU ON THAT ONE OR RIGHT. 01:01:39.128 --> 01:01:41.898 PLEASE TELL ME. NO. OKAY. 01:01:41.964 --> 01:01:43.099 WELL, THANKS. 01:01:43.166 --> 01:01:44.434 THANKS. THANKS SO MUCH FOR THAT. 01:01:44.500 --> 01:01:47.503 I MEAN, I THINK THE PICTURE THAT YOU'RE PAINTING, 01:01:47.770 --> 01:01:50.606 IS A VERY IMPORTANT ONE AROUND THE, THE, THIS 01:01:50.673 --> 01:01:52.809 THAT WE'RE EXPERIENCING THIS YEAR WITH THE GLASS 01:01:52.875 --> 01:01:53.910 USING SHARPSHOOTER WITH, 01:01:53.976 --> 01:01:56.979 WITH RESPECT TO WINE GRAPES AND OTHER AND OTHER CROPS. 01:01:57.180 --> 01:02:00.650 BUT THIS IS IT IS A LARGER ISSUE THAT WE'RE FACING WHERE 01:02:00.716 --> 01:02:04.887 THIS CONFLUENCE OF FACTORS THAT MAY BE CAUSING MORE, MORE, 01:02:05.455 --> 01:02:08.658 MORE FARMLAND AND MORE CROPLAND TO GO OUT OF PRODUCTION 01:02:08.925 --> 01:02:12.528 AT THE SAME TIME THAT WE'RE DEALING WITH, INVASIVE SPECIES 01:02:12.595 --> 01:02:14.397 AND THE CHALLENGES TO WHICH THAT 01:02:14.464 --> 01:02:15.331 GOING OUT OF PRODUCTION 01:02:15.398 --> 01:02:17.066 CREATES, ACCELERATES 01:02:17.133 --> 01:02:19.368 THE PROBLEM OF THE INVASIVE SPECIES SPREADING, 01:02:19.435 --> 01:02:20.970 WE ARE DEFINITELY SEEING THAT THROUGHOUT THE, 01:02:21.037 --> 01:02:22.872 THROUGHOUT THE STATE, AND NOT JUST WITH THE, 01:02:22.939 --> 01:02:25.041 WITH EITHER WINE AND, OR WITH THE SHARPSHOOTER, 01:02:25.108 --> 01:02:26.843 CERTAINLY IN THE, IN THE, IN THE LOWER 01:02:26.909 --> 01:02:29.846 SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY WHERE, WHERE WATER ISSUES HAVE, 01:02:29.912 --> 01:02:30.313 YOU KNOW, 01:02:30.379 --> 01:02:32.515 HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO LOTS OF FARMLAND 01:02:32.582 --> 01:02:35.218 GOING OUT OF PRODUCTION, BUT ALSO IN MANY CASES 01:02:35.284 --> 01:02:37.286 SIMPLY BEING FOLLOWED WITH NO MANAGEMENT OF SPECIES. 01:02:37.353 --> 01:02:41.958 SO THIS IS A MUCH BIGGER ISSUE IN, IN IN A BIG RESPECT. 01:02:42.024 --> 01:02:44.093 SO THANK YOU FOR POINTING POINTING THAT OUT. 01:02:44.160 --> 01:02:46.529 WE DIDN'T REALLY GET TO PROBE WITH WITH TRACY 01:02:46.596 --> 01:02:49.699 KLEEMAN MUCH, BUT I'M JUST MAYBE MAYBE BETWEEN THE TWO OF YOU, 01:02:51.167 --> 01:02:53.369 YOU KNOW, FOR COUNTIES THAT DON'T HAVE 01:02:53.436 --> 01:02:56.639 THE SPECIAL DISTRICT SUPPORTED BY THE WINE GRAPE GROWERS, 01:02:57.306 --> 01:03:00.109 HOW LIKE HOW HOW ARE THEY GRAPPLING 01:03:00.176 --> 01:03:03.179 WITH THIS? 01:03:03.779 --> 01:03:04.881 YOU GIVE IT, I MEAN, 01:03:04.947 --> 01:03:07.617 AND IT CAME TO MIND JUST BECAUSE, MR. 01:03:07.683 --> 01:03:09.352 RUBIN, YOU KNOW, WAS DESCRIBING THAT THE, YOU KNOW, 01:03:09.418 --> 01:03:13.156 THE CHALLENGES FOR FOR GROWERS TO CONTRIBUTE TO BOTH, 01:03:13.890 --> 01:03:16.325 ON THEIR OWN PROPERTIES, TO BE ABLE TO BE AS, 01:03:16.392 --> 01:03:19.395 AS VIGILANT AS THEY WOULD HOPE TO BE. 01:03:19.896 --> 01:03:22.131 YOU KNOW, THEY SHARE OUR, OUR COLLECTIVE INTEREST IN THIS, 01:03:22.198 --> 01:03:25.201 BUT THEY'RE FACING MANY, MANY CHALLENGES ALL AT ONCE. 01:03:25.268 --> 01:03:28.371 AND SO THE THE SPECIAL ASSESSMENT IN NAPA 01:03:28.704 --> 01:03:30.540 PROVIDES A WAY OUT OF THAT COLLECTIVE 01:03:30.606 --> 01:03:32.175 ACTION DILEMMA TO SOME EXTENT. 01:03:32.241 --> 01:03:34.644 BUT I'M WONDERING IF YOU HAVE SOME INSIGHT AS TO 01:03:34.710 --> 01:03:36.546 WHAT IS IT, WHAT DOES IT MEAN IN SONOMA 01:03:36.612 --> 01:03:38.414 AND IN YOLO AND OTHER PLACES WHERE 01:03:38.481 --> 01:03:40.750 WHERE THEY MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE THAT TOOL? 01:03:40.816 --> 01:03:44.921 I, YOU KNOW, FOR NAPA, IT DEFINITELY PROVIDES A BUFFER. 01:03:44.987 --> 01:03:47.490 AND THEN IT'S AN OPPORTUNITY FOR GROWERS TO DIRECT 01:03:47.557 --> 01:03:50.092 HOW WE USE THOSE DOLLARS THAT THEY ASSESS THEMSELVES. 01:03:50.159 --> 01:03:51.994 SO IT'S IT'S A HUGE RESOURCE. 01:03:52.061 --> 01:03:54.130 WE'VE HAD IT FOR OVER 20 YEARS. 01:03:54.197 --> 01:03:56.499 WE ACTUALLY JUST REAUTHORIZED IT. 01:03:56.566 --> 01:03:58.000 WE DID A PUBLIC HEARING LAST MONTH. 01:03:58.067 --> 01:04:00.836 SO IT SHOULD REAUTHORIZE FOR ANOTHER FIVE YEARS. 01:04:00.903 --> 01:04:04.607 I DO KNOW, IN SONOMA, THEY WERE THEY HAVE THE SAME MOMENTUM, 01:04:04.674 --> 01:04:08.044 AN EFFORT GOING ON, A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO, 01:04:08.110 --> 01:04:10.279 AND THEY JUST COULD NOT GET IT OFF THE GROUND. 01:04:10.346 --> 01:04:13.316 SO GROWERS WERE NOT, VOTING 01:04:13.382 --> 01:04:15.785 TO IMPLEMENT AN ASSESSMENT. 01:04:15.851 --> 01:04:18.754 AND BECAUSE YOU NEED A SET AMOUNT OF PEOPLE TO VOTE FOR IT, 01:04:18.821 --> 01:04:19.522 I DON'T REMEMBER 01:04:19.589 --> 01:04:22.625 IF IT'S TWO THIRDS OF THE GROWER, INDUSTRY, BUT 01:04:23.726 --> 01:04:24.594 THEY DIDN'T WANT TO DO IT. 01:04:24.660 --> 01:04:25.995 THEY DIDN'T HAVE THE MONEY TO 01:04:26.062 --> 01:04:27.330 DO IT, AND THEY WEREN'T INTERESTED. 01:04:27.396 --> 01:04:29.198 SO IT DIDN'T HAPPEN. 01:04:29.265 --> 01:04:31.634 SO WE'RE FORTUNATE, 01:04:31.701 --> 01:04:32.468 AND THEN OTHER COUNTIES 01:04:32.535 --> 01:04:34.971 THAT DON'T HAVE THAT TO FALL BACK ON 01:04:35.037 --> 01:04:36.839 AND TO SUPPORT SOME OF THE THINGS THEY'RE TRYING TO DO. 01:04:36.906 --> 01:04:39.008 THEY DEFINITELY STRUGGLE. 01:04:39.075 --> 01:04:40.676 THEY STRUGGLE. 01:04:40.743 --> 01:04:40.977 YEAH. 01:04:41.043 --> 01:04:43.746 AND IT'S, IT'S NOT YOUR PROBLEM. 01:04:43.813 --> 01:04:45.748 IT'S NOT MY PROBLEM. IT'S OUR PROBLEM. 01:04:45.815 --> 01:04:46.015 YOU KNOW, 01:04:46.082 --> 01:04:49.085 YOU CAN'T JUST PUT UP EXCLUSION NETTING AROUND, NAPA COUNTY 01:04:49.652 --> 01:04:52.221 AND SAY, YOU KNOW, OH, WE'RE COVERED, RIGHT. 01:04:52.288 --> 01:04:56.792 AND THAT THAT'S THE, KIND OF REALLY THE THE 01:04:56.859 --> 01:04:59.762 WHAT IS SO SCARY ABOUT THIS PROBLEM, RIGHT, IS THAT, 01:04:59.829 --> 01:05:02.498 YOU CAN'T PUT A BORDERS, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN'T PUT UP BLOCKERS. 01:05:02.565 --> 01:05:05.067 YOU KNOW, IT REALLY IS A COMMUNITY. 01:05:05.134 --> 01:05:07.303 IT HAS TO BE A COMMUNITY BASED CONTROL EFFORT. 01:05:07.370 --> 01:05:10.139 AND THOSE, OF COURSE, DON'T END IT AT COUNTY, 01:05:10.206 --> 01:05:11.474 OR EVEN STATE LINES. 01:05:11.540 --> 01:05:13.009 AND, JUST TO KIND OF, 01:05:13.075 --> 01:05:15.177 YOU KNOW, ECHO A LITTLE BIT, YOU KNOW, WE'VE HAD, 01:05:15.244 --> 01:05:16.579 YOU KNOW, VERY SUCCESSFUL GROWERS 01:05:16.646 --> 01:05:19.248 THAT AND, AND WINERIES THAT ARE WEATHERING 01:05:19.315 --> 01:05:22.285 THIS CURRENT STORM, YOU KNOW, THEY SEE SOME OF THEIR PREMIUM 01:05:22.351 --> 01:05:25.488 BOTTLES, YOU KNOW, ABOVE 12, ABOVE $20 DOING OKAY. 01:05:25.554 --> 01:05:27.957 YOU KNOW, THE LIGHTS AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL. 01:05:28.024 --> 01:05:29.225 AND AND WHEN ASKED WHAT DO YOU MOST 01:05:29.292 --> 01:05:31.060 WORRY ABOUT, YOU KNOW, AND THEN STANDING AROUND 01:05:31.127 --> 01:05:31.894 THE FIELD IS LIKE, WELL, 01:05:31.961 --> 01:05:33.596 I'M WORRIED ABOUT THAT ABANDONED VINEYARD. 01:05:33.663 --> 01:05:35.564 THEY'RE THAT ABANDONED VINEYARD RIGHT OVER THERE. 01:05:35.631 --> 01:05:38.367 AND I'M IN THE MIDDLE OF NAPA VALLEY, YOU KNOW, IT'S, 01:05:38.434 --> 01:05:39.101 CERTAINLY SOMETHING. 01:05:39.168 --> 01:05:40.236 AND OUR GROWERS 01:05:40.303 --> 01:05:42.538 AND OUR CLIENTS IN PARTICULAR ARE CONCERNED ABOUT. 01:05:45.107 --> 01:05:46.075 I'M GLAD YOU TALKED 01:05:46.142 --> 01:05:49.145 ABOUT ABANDONED, VINEYARDS. 01:05:49.912 --> 01:05:51.580 UNMANAGED VINEYARDS. 01:05:51.647 --> 01:05:53.115 THERE'S A COST TO THOSE. RIGHT. 01:05:53.182 --> 01:05:57.153 AND I THINK, DOING POLICY AND WORKING WITH MY COLLEAGUES, 01:05:57.887 --> 01:06:00.923 THEY DON'T PUT THAT PIECE INTO WHAT'S IT COST 01:06:00.990 --> 01:06:04.293 TO DO WORK WITH THE FARMER TAKING OUT OF VINEYARDS? 01:06:04.360 --> 01:06:05.995 VERY EXPENSIVE. 01:06:06.062 --> 01:06:07.663 AND THAT'S WHY YOU HAVE THESE ABANDONED ONES, 01:06:07.730 --> 01:06:09.298 IS THAT THEY JUST CANNOT DO IT. 01:06:09.365 --> 01:06:11.300 AND IF THEY DO, IT'S SO EXPENSIVE FOR THEM. 01:06:11.367 --> 01:06:13.235 AND TO RECOUP ANY OF THE MONEY 01:06:13.302 --> 01:06:14.804 IN THE LONG RUN, IT'S REALLY DIFFICULT. 01:06:14.870 --> 01:06:18.174 SO, ONE OF THE THINGS I THINK WE HAVE TO ACKNOWLEDGE 01:06:18.240 --> 01:06:19.108 AND WE HAVE ACKNOWLEDGED, 01:06:19.175 --> 01:06:22.178 BECAUSE WE WORK IN AN AGENCY IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA, 01:06:22.712 --> 01:06:25.748 THE OUR COLLEAGUES DON'T UNDERSTAND IT. 01:06:25.815 --> 01:06:28.651 AND AS MANY TIMES AS WE TRY TO EDUCATE 01:06:28.718 --> 01:06:31.420 AND HELP THEM UNDERSTAND, I MEAN, THIS 01:06:31.487 --> 01:06:33.789 THIS IS PREVENTATIVE STUFF THAT WE COULD BE DOING, 01:06:33.856 --> 01:06:36.892 BUT THERE'S A COST TO THAT AND NOBODY WANTS TO HEAR THAT. 01:06:36.959 --> 01:06:37.893 WHAT'S THE COST IS 01:06:37.960 --> 01:06:41.430 WHAT'S THE COST TO THE CONSUMER, TO THE FARMER, ETC.. 01:06:41.731 --> 01:06:43.966 I'M LIKE YOU, TRISHA, SITTING UP HERE IN THE TOP AND 01:06:44.033 --> 01:06:46.102 SHE GOES INTO ALL OF OUR OFFICES 01:06:46.168 --> 01:06:49.405 AND EDUCATES SO MANY OF OUR COLLEAGUES. 01:06:49.472 --> 01:06:52.375 AND, YOU KNOW, IT'S LIKE TALKING TO A WALL. IS IT? 01:06:52.441 --> 01:06:54.143 THAT'S NOT OUR PROBLEM. 01:06:54.210 --> 01:06:54.777 YOU KNOW? 01:06:54.844 --> 01:06:57.580 AND SO I'M FRUSTRATED WHEN I HEAR 01:06:57.646 --> 01:06:58.647 AND I KNOW BECAUSE WE FARM. 01:06:58.714 --> 01:07:00.249 WE JUST TOOK OUT AN ORCHARD. 01:07:00.316 --> 01:07:02.952 IT WAS SO EXPENSIVE TO TAKE IT OUT, 01:07:03.018 --> 01:07:04.754 COME BACK AND PUT NEW IRRIGATION 01:07:04.820 --> 01:07:06.956 IN AND MAKE SURE THE SOIL IS READY TO GO. 01:07:07.022 --> 01:07:08.324 YOU KNOW, PUT IN THE NEW TREES 01:07:08.391 --> 01:07:09.592 AND MAKING SURE THE TREES ARE HEALTHY 01:07:09.658 --> 01:07:12.161 BEFORE THEY EVEN GET TO THE TO OUR, FARM. 01:07:12.228 --> 01:07:13.529 SO THERE'S ALL THOSE COSTS 01:07:13.596 --> 01:07:15.297 THAT I THINK PEOPLE JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND. 01:07:15.364 --> 01:07:19.635 AND, I THINK THAT'S HOW WE GET THESE INVASIVE SPECIES 01:07:19.702 --> 01:07:22.705 GOING FROM FARM TO FARM, WHERE IT'S JUST SITTING THERE AND, 01:07:23.439 --> 01:07:24.440 YEAH, IT'S, 01:07:24.507 --> 01:07:28.210 IT'S DEFINITELY A TERRIBLE ISSUE THAT WE'VE GOT TO FIGURE OUT. 01:07:28.477 --> 01:07:29.011 ABSOLUTELY. 01:07:29.078 --> 01:07:30.312 AND WE HEARD SOME 01:07:30.379 --> 01:07:33.716 PRETTY LARGE NUMBERS, RIGHT, OF WHAT THE WHAT'S AT STAKE. 01:07:33.783 --> 01:07:34.583 RIGHT. 01:07:34.650 --> 01:07:37.153 BUT IT'S VERY HARD TO CONVINCE SOMEONE, 01:07:37.219 --> 01:07:40.456 YOU KNOW, HOW MUCH THAT AVOIDED CATASTROPHE THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN. 01:07:40.756 --> 01:07:41.424 YOU KNOW, 01:07:41.490 --> 01:07:43.826 PUT THAT INTO REAL DOLLARS THAT YOU NEED TO SPEND TODAY, RIGHT? 01:07:43.893 --> 01:07:47.096 THAT THAT BECOMES A VERY DIFFICULT BLOCKER, 01:07:47.797 --> 01:07:50.733 YOU KNOW, HOW DO YOU ERADICATED HOW DO YOU TAKE OUT THE VINES? 01:07:50.800 --> 01:07:51.667 DO YOU BURN THEM? 01:07:51.734 --> 01:07:53.469 WHAT HAPPENS THEN? WHAT DO YOU DO WITH THE WIRE? 01:07:53.536 --> 01:07:54.804 I MEAN, THERE'S SO MANY THINGS 01:07:54.870 --> 01:07:58.441 THAT PEOPLE JUST DON'T GET SO THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRESENTATION. 01:07:58.674 --> 01:07:59.175 OH YOU'RE WELCOME. 01:07:59.241 --> 01:08:01.811 YOU OPEN A CAN OF WORMS WITH ME. THAT'S. 01:08:01.877 --> 01:08:04.013 YEAH. I'M I'M I'M, THIS THIS THIS, 01:08:05.147 --> 01:08:06.449 CONVERSATION REMINDS ME OF THE BILL. 01:08:06.515 --> 01:08:09.518 WE JUST WE JUST HEARD IN THE LEGISLATURE, 01:08:09.585 --> 01:08:12.154 AROUND, CONVERTING PROPERTIES 01:08:12.221 --> 01:08:14.857 OUT OF THE WILLIAMSON ACT AND THEIR PROTECTION FOR 01:08:14.924 --> 01:08:17.927 FOR AGRICULTURE INTO SOLAR PANELS. 01:08:18.294 --> 01:08:19.662 AND WE CAN DEBATE, 01:08:19.728 --> 01:08:22.731 YOU KNOW, WE CAN DEBATE THE, THE VALUE OF THAT POLICY. 01:08:23.632 --> 01:08:27.336 BUT IT IT DIDN'T IT THAT THAT LEGISLATION 01:08:27.403 --> 01:08:30.906 DID NOT HAVE ANY REQUIREMENT THAT YOU PULL OUT THE, 01:08:31.140 --> 01:08:34.276 THE, THE, THE, THE CROPS OR THE ROOTSTOCK OR ANYTHING, 01:08:34.610 --> 01:08:35.511 IT JUST IT 01:08:35.578 --> 01:08:38.547 SO THAT YOU COULD SIMPLY CONVERT THE, THE LAND OVER. 01:08:38.614 --> 01:08:39.315 BUT THERE WAS NO 01:08:39.381 --> 01:08:41.584 THERE'S NO ACCOUNTABILITY AROUND ON SOME OF THESE ISSUES 01:08:41.650 --> 01:08:43.853 AND THAT'S WHY THEY UNDER BUILDING 01:08:43.919 --> 01:08:46.922 THE UNDERSTANDING THAT FLUENCY, ESPECIALLY FOR SOME OF OUR 01:08:47.256 --> 01:08:50.493 EXCLUSIVELY URBAN COUNTERPARTS AROUND HOW THE SYSTEM WORKS, 01:08:51.093 --> 01:08:53.429 IS SO IMPORTANT. SO, 01:08:53.496 --> 01:08:55.264 I JUST WANT TO ASK YOU, MR. 01:08:55.331 --> 01:08:57.166 RUBIN, YOU KNOW, GIVEN GIFT GIVEN 01:08:57.233 --> 01:08:58.267 TO GIVEN THE BANK OF THE WEST 01:08:58.334 --> 01:08:59.235 BANK OF MONTREAL, 01:08:59.301 --> 01:09:02.638 IS IS A QUEBEC, OR ARE THERE OTHER GOVERNMENTS IN, 01:09:02.872 --> 01:09:03.772 YOU KNOW, IN THE WORLD 01:09:03.839 --> 01:09:06.842 OR IN NORTH AMERICA THAT ARE DOING ANYTHING, 01:09:07.109 --> 01:09:08.344 YOU KNOW, INNOVATIVE OR INSTRUCTIVE 01:09:08.410 --> 01:09:10.112 THAT WE MIGHT LEARN FROM HERE IN CALIFORNIA 01:09:10.179 --> 01:09:12.214 ABOUT HOW TO HOW TO ADDRESS THIS? 01:09:12.281 --> 01:09:13.482 OH, YEAH. 01:09:13.549 --> 01:09:15.551 THAT'S, YOU KNOW, OF COURSE, 01:09:15.618 --> 01:09:17.253 YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, ICE WINE, OF COURSE, 01:09:17.319 --> 01:09:19.855 YOU HAVE THE OKANAGAN VALLEY THAT'S MORE SIMILAR TO NAPA. 01:09:19.922 --> 01:09:20.723 A LOT OF PRODUCTION. 01:09:20.789 --> 01:09:22.892 YOU JUST DON'T HAVE THE SAME PEST AND DISEASE ISSUES 01:09:22.958 --> 01:09:25.494 BECAUSE OF THE OVER WINTER FREEZES AND EVERYTHING. 01:09:25.561 --> 01:09:25.761 RIGHT. 01:09:25.828 --> 01:09:27.630 SO CLASSIC WING SHARPSHOOTER, 01:09:27.696 --> 01:09:29.965 YOU KNOW, WON'T BE A GREAT, 01:09:30.032 --> 01:09:31.433 YOU KNOW, REALLY WON'T BE A PROBLEM FOR THEM 01:09:31.500 --> 01:09:33.569 ANY TIME SOON. I'M KNOCKING ON WOOD RIGHT NOW. 01:09:34.703 --> 01:09:36.205 AN INTERESTING, 01:09:36.272 --> 01:09:38.474 YOU KNOW, PREVENTION, VERY DIFFERENT INDUSTRY, BUT 01:09:38.541 --> 01:09:42.244 ALSO ONE I WORK IN IS CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT AGRICULTURE 01:09:42.311 --> 01:09:46.048 AND THE, CANADIAN, GREENHOUSE SYSTEM IN ONTARIO. 01:09:46.115 --> 01:09:50.352 AND JUST THE LEVEL OF BIOSECURITY INVOLVED IN, 01:09:50.986 --> 01:09:53.622 ISOLATING DIFFERENT, 01:09:53.689 --> 01:09:55.257 GREENHOUSE GROWS, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE 01:09:55.324 --> 01:09:56.825 THEY'RE DEALING WITH TOMATO VIRUS, 01:09:56.892 --> 01:09:59.094 WHICH IS THREATENING THEIR ENTIRE INDUSTRY, 01:09:59.161 --> 01:10:01.630 TALKING ABOUT CROP SWITCHING, CUCUMBERS, ETC.. 01:10:01.697 --> 01:10:06.201 BUT REALLY, THE COST IN, INVESTMENT 01:10:06.268 --> 01:10:09.405 IN BIOSECURITY IS ALWAYS TOP OF THE CONVERSATION. 01:10:09.471 --> 01:10:09.905 RIGHT? 01:10:09.972 --> 01:10:14.076 AND REALLY UNDERSTANDING THE PROTECT THESE LOCAL HOMEGROWN 01:10:14.143 --> 01:10:17.146 INDUSTRIES THAT HAVE A GREAT BACKGROUND AND STORY 01:10:17.212 --> 01:10:20.182 AND, AND PUTTING SOME GOVERNMENT FUNDS BEHIND THAT. 01:10:20.249 --> 01:10:21.116 THAT CERTAINLY KIND OF 01:10:21.183 --> 01:10:24.186 IN ONTARIO IN PARTICULAR IS REALLY GOOD AT. 01:10:25.621 --> 01:10:25.854 ALL. RIGHT. 01:10:25.921 --> 01:10:26.255 THANK YOU. 01:10:26.322 --> 01:10:28.524 AND PLEASE LET THE FOLKS OF ONTARIO 01:10:28.591 --> 01:10:31.460 KNOW THAT WE WE LOVE WE LOVE ONTARIO, 01:10:31.527 --> 01:10:33.729 EVERYTHING ABOUT IT AND ESPECIALLY THEIR NAME. 01:10:33.796 --> 01:10:34.863 SO APPRECIATE YOU SO MUCH. 01:10:36.031 --> 01:10:36.865 LET'S ABSOLUTELY 01:10:36.932 --> 01:10:38.200 LET'S TURN TO OUR FINAL PANELIST, 01:10:38.267 --> 01:10:39.001 WHO'S MICHAEL MILLER, 01:10:39.068 --> 01:10:40.336 THE DIRECTOR OF GOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS 01:10:40.402 --> 01:10:43.072 FOR THE CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF WINE GRAPE GROWERS. 01:10:43.138 --> 01:10:46.075 WE'VE TALKED ALL ABOUT WINE GRAPE GROWERS ALL DAY TODAY. 01:10:46.141 --> 01:10:48.744 SO NOW LET'S HEAR FROM FROM THEIR, THEIR VOICE. 01:10:48.811 --> 01:10:49.878 MICHAEL, WELCOME. 01:10:49.945 --> 01:10:53.949 I THANK YOU, SARAH BALDWIN AND, SOME OF THE OTHER, 01:10:54.783 --> 01:10:57.786 I GOT CURRY BEFORE I, BEFORE I BEGIN, I DO WANT TO SAY, 01:10:58.320 --> 01:11:00.456 I APPRECIATE YOU HOLDING THIS HEARING. 01:11:00.522 --> 01:11:05.127 YOU BOTH REPRESENT A DESTINATION WINE REGION IN THE WORLD. 01:11:05.194 --> 01:11:05.694 YOU MAKE. 01:11:05.761 --> 01:11:07.162 YOU KNOW, YOUR COMMUNITY 01:11:07.229 --> 01:11:08.998 MAKES SOME OF THE FINEST WINE IN THE WORLD. 01:11:09.064 --> 01:11:10.833 AND THESE HEARINGS ARE IMPORTANT. 01:11:10.899 --> 01:11:12.201 I APPRECIATE YOU DOING THAT. 01:11:12.267 --> 01:11:14.603 YOU ALSO ACKNOWLEDGE THE LEADERS OF YOU BOTH 01:11:14.670 --> 01:11:16.372 ARE BOTH YOUR RESPECTIVE HOUSES. 01:11:16.438 --> 01:11:17.606 THEY BOTH REPRESENT WINE 01:11:17.673 --> 01:11:19.908 REGIONS, THE PRO TEM AND THE SENATE. 01:11:19.975 --> 01:11:20.743 SPEAKER AS WELL. 01:11:20.809 --> 01:11:22.211 THERE'S SOME OF THE SPEAKERS AS WELL. 01:11:22.277 --> 01:11:24.079 AND WE KNOW THAT THEY'RE ENGAGED ON THESE ISSUES 01:11:24.146 --> 01:11:26.315 BECAUSE WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT TODAY 01:11:26.382 --> 01:11:27.950 AFFECTS THEIR CONSTITUENTS, 01:11:28.017 --> 01:11:29.718 YOUR CONSTITUENTS, AND WE APPRECIATE 01:11:29.785 --> 01:11:31.587 YOUR LEADERSHIP AND ENGAGEMENT ON THIS. 01:11:31.654 --> 01:11:33.389 SO I CAN'T THANK YOU ENOUGH FOR THIS. 01:11:33.455 --> 01:11:34.723 AND I ALSO WANT TO PIGGYBACK ON ONE THING 01:11:34.790 --> 01:11:38.160 THAT YOU SAID, SENATOR BALDWIN, TO OUR FRIENDS FROM CANADA, 01:11:38.227 --> 01:11:40.262 PLEASE DRINK MORE CALIFORNIA WINE. 01:11:40.329 --> 01:11:43.198 YEAH, WE WE LOVE OUR FRIENDS OF CANADA. 01:11:43.265 --> 01:11:45.601 PLEASE, PLEASE BUY MORE CALIFORNIA WIDE. 01:11:47.136 --> 01:11:49.705 ALL RIGHT, SO WITH THAT, I'LL BEGIN. 01:11:49.772 --> 01:11:51.006 YOU'VE HEARD A LOT OF INFORMATION TODAY 01:11:51.073 --> 01:11:53.609 ABOUT THE SITUATION WITH WEST AND OTHER PEST. 01:11:53.676 --> 01:11:55.344 IT'S A VERY SERIOUS PROBLEM INDEED. 01:11:55.411 --> 01:11:57.012 WE KNOW THAT FOR MANY GROWERS, 01:11:57.079 --> 01:11:59.281 WINEMAKERS, THEY'RE STRUGGLING TO STAY IN BUSINESS. 01:11:59.348 --> 01:12:02.451 AND WE KNOW THAT MANY OF THEM HAVE ALREADY LOST THE STRUGGLE. 01:12:02.518 --> 01:12:05.587 AND SO WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT TODAY IS IMPORTANT. 01:12:05.654 --> 01:12:06.622 AS WE WRAP UP THE HEARING, I'M 01:12:06.689 --> 01:12:08.357 GOING TO FOCUS ON POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS. 01:12:08.424 --> 01:12:09.091 I WANT TO 01:12:09.158 --> 01:12:12.261 OFFER SOME WAYS FORWARD IN DEALING WITH THIS SITUATION. 01:12:12.628 --> 01:12:14.496 LET ME FIRST ADDRESS THE COSTCO SITUATION. 01:12:14.563 --> 01:12:18.600 WE APPRECIATE THE $10 MILLION REDIRECTION OF CFA'S 01:12:18.667 --> 01:12:21.704 E FUND TO TOWARD THE AD COMMISSIONERS ON THIS PROGRAM. 01:12:21.770 --> 01:12:22.905 IT'S VERY IMPORTANT. 01:12:22.971 --> 01:12:25.674 IT'S HELPFUL BUT THAT THAT ACTION ALSO 01:12:25.741 --> 01:12:28.711 REDUCES MONEY AVAILABLE FOR OTHER THINGS. 01:12:28.777 --> 01:12:32.581 FOR EXAMPLE, IF TRACY FINDS THAT SHE HAS A PROBLEM WITH THE, 01:12:32.648 --> 01:12:34.616 SPOTTED LANTERNFLY IN OUR DISTRICT, 01:12:34.683 --> 01:12:37.686 THE FUND IS NOW HAS MINIMAL FUNDS AVAILABLE FOR THAT. 01:12:37.753 --> 01:12:39.288 SO WE REALLY ARE LOOKING 01:12:39.354 --> 01:12:42.991 FOR ADDITIONAL, STATE FUNDING TO DEAL WITH THE ISSUE. 01:12:43.292 --> 01:12:47.196 OUR ESTIMATE IS THAT THERE NEEDS TO BE ABOUT $26.8 MILLION 01:12:47.463 --> 01:12:52.634 IN NEW FUNDING DEDICATED TO DEAL WITH THE, COSTCO SITUATION. 01:12:53.435 --> 01:12:55.871 THE INDUSTRY HAS ALREADY STEPPED UP WITH NEW FUNDING. 01:12:55.938 --> 01:12:58.907 ADDITIONALLY, WE ANTICIPATE SOME FEDERAL SUPPORT COMING SOON. 01:12:58.974 --> 01:13:00.642 WE HOPE, WE HOPE, WE HOPE. 01:13:00.709 --> 01:13:02.277 BUT WE ALSO NEED SOME STATE FUNDING. 01:13:02.344 --> 01:13:04.713 AND WE'RE HOPEFUL FOR THAT BECAUSE WE WE RECOGNIZE 01:13:04.780 --> 01:13:06.715 THAT THERE WILL BE OPPORTUNITIES IN JANUARY, 01:13:06.782 --> 01:13:10.085 MAYBE SOME EARLY BUDGET ACTION OR SOME ADDITIONAL THINGS 01:13:10.152 --> 01:13:10.419 YOU CAN DO. 01:13:10.486 --> 01:13:12.254 IF THERE'S A IF THERE'S A SPECIAL SESSION, 01:13:12.321 --> 01:13:14.156 MAYBE THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY THERE. 01:13:14.223 --> 01:13:16.391 I'M SORRY, BUT WE'RE HOPING. 01:13:20.662 --> 01:13:22.264 I APPRECIATE THAT. 01:13:22.331 --> 01:13:25.334 AND, THAT. 01:13:26.235 --> 01:13:27.002 THAT SAID, 01:13:27.069 --> 01:13:29.104 THE SECOND THING WE NEED TO DEAL WITH IS THE OVERALL 01:13:29.171 --> 01:13:31.373 FUNDING OF THE PIERCE'S DISEASE CONTROL PROGRAM. 01:13:31.440 --> 01:13:32.407 IN GENERAL, 01:13:32.474 --> 01:13:34.943 WHEN THE PROGRAM IS CREATED, 25 YEARS AGO, 01:13:35.010 --> 01:13:36.078 IT WAS BUILT ON THE PROMISE 01:13:36.145 --> 01:13:38.647 THAT YOU WOULD HAVE THREE TIERS OF FINANCIAL SUPPORT. 01:13:38.714 --> 01:13:39.915 YOU'D HAVE FEDERAL SUPPORT, 01:13:39.982 --> 01:13:42.785 STATE SUPPORT AND INDUSTRY SUPPORT. 01:13:42.851 --> 01:13:45.954 THE INDUSTRY HAS CONTRIBUTED MORE THAN $90 MILLION 01:13:46.155 --> 01:13:48.390 SINCE THE INCEPTION OF THE PROGRAM. 01:13:48.457 --> 01:13:51.894 AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL, THERE'S ONGOING FUNDING EVERY YEAR 01:13:52.261 --> 01:13:55.063 AT THE STATE LEVEL THAT FUNDING STOPPED, 01:13:55.130 --> 01:13:56.365 DURING THE GREAT RECESSION. 01:13:56.431 --> 01:13:58.000 AND WE RECOGNIZE THERE WAS A BUDGET CRISIS 01:13:58.066 --> 01:14:01.870 AT THE TIME AND HARD DECISIONS HAD TO BE MADE REASONS. 01:14:02.237 --> 01:14:05.207 BUT THAT SAID, SINCE THEN, ONLY $5 01:14:05.274 --> 01:14:08.477 MILLION OF STATE MONEY HAS BEEN SPENT ON THIS PROGRAM, 01:14:08.677 --> 01:14:11.747 AND THAT WAS A ONE TIME EXPENDITURE IN 2017. 01:14:11.814 --> 01:14:14.817 AND SO, IN SHORT, THAT IS NOT SUSTAINABLE. 01:14:15.150 --> 01:14:18.554 THE LACK OF FUNDING HAS RESULTED IN REDUCING VITAL ACTIVITIES 01:14:18.620 --> 01:14:21.790 THAT ARE NEEDED TO CONTROL THE, THE POPULATION. 01:14:21.857 --> 01:14:24.059 AND REMEMBER, THIS IS A CONTROL PROGRAM. 01:14:24.126 --> 01:14:25.861 IT'S NOT AN ERADICATION PROGRAM. 01:14:25.928 --> 01:14:28.664 THEY'RE NOT TRYING TO ERADICATE OR TRY TO CONTROL IT. 01:14:28.730 --> 01:14:31.533 SO THE ACTIVITIES TO CONTROL THAT HAVE TO BE FUNDED 01:14:31.600 --> 01:14:32.901 AND THAT THE 01:14:32.968 --> 01:14:34.069 AND THE LACK OF FUNDING IS 01:14:34.136 --> 01:14:37.172 HOW WE WOUND UP WITH WILSON IN BACKYARDS IN FAIRFIELD. 01:14:37.239 --> 01:14:39.141 WE HAVE NINE COUNTIES CURRENTLY. 01:14:39.208 --> 01:14:43.712 RIGHT NOW THAT HAVE WITHIN AND POPULATED RESIDENTIAL AREAS. 01:14:43.979 --> 01:14:45.347 AND FIVE OF THOSE COUNTIES 01:14:45.414 --> 01:14:48.417 HAD A PROBLEM BEFORE THE COSTCO SITUATION. 01:14:48.684 --> 01:14:51.220 SO THE COSTCO SITUATION DOUBLED IT. 01:14:51.286 --> 01:14:53.956 BUT WE ALREADY HAD AN EXISTING PROBLEM. 01:14:54.022 --> 01:14:54.590 SO, WELL, 01:14:54.656 --> 01:14:58.360 WE'RE LOOKING AT TO TO GET TO THAT THREE TIERS OF SUPPORT. 01:14:58.427 --> 01:15:01.597 AGAIN, I THINK THE STATE NEEDS TO INVEST PROBABLY $10 01:15:01.663 --> 01:15:05.667 MILLION ANNUALLY IN THAT PROGRAM TO MAKE A SUSTAINABLE AGAIN 01:15:05.734 --> 01:15:06.835 GOING FORWARD. 01:15:06.902 --> 01:15:09.238 AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE CAN DO GOING FORWARD. 01:15:09.304 --> 01:15:12.174 IT SHOULD BE A MAJOR PART OF THE CONVERSATION. 01:15:12.241 --> 01:15:13.775 THIRD, WE NEED TO LOOK AT THE POTENTIAL 01:15:13.842 --> 01:15:15.544 CAUSES FOR THE SPREAD OF WEST. 01:15:16.712 --> 01:15:17.012 WHILE 01:15:17.079 --> 01:15:20.148 THE WEST WING SHARPSHOOTER CAN FLY A LONG DISTANCE. 01:15:20.215 --> 01:15:22.084 AS DOCTOR KLEIN SAID, 01:15:22.150 --> 01:15:25.153 WE KNOW WHAT THE COSTCO SITUATION THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN. 01:15:25.420 --> 01:15:28.657 THEY DIDN'T FLY FROM TEXAS TO FAIRFIELD. 01:15:28.857 --> 01:15:29.558 IT DIDN'T FLY. 01:15:29.625 --> 01:15:31.860 EVEN FROM FRESNO TO NAPA. 01:15:31.927 --> 01:15:35.130 IT WAS ON THROUGH THE GOODS MOVEMENT SYSTEM 01:15:35.197 --> 01:15:38.100 AND THROUGH SHIPPING PLANTS THAT WERE INFESTED 01:15:38.166 --> 01:15:40.135 FROM THAT PLANT FROM NURSERIES. 01:15:40.202 --> 01:15:42.471 SO WE NEED TO LOOK AT THAT AS A STATEWIDE ISSUE 01:15:42.537 --> 01:15:44.673 AND NOT JUST A LOCAL REGION BY REGION ISSUE, 01:15:44.740 --> 01:15:47.776 BECAUSE WHAT HAPPENS IN ONE PLACE AFFECTS THE ENTIRE STATE. 01:15:48.877 --> 01:15:50.279 THE TAKE AWAY THE NURSERIES 01:15:50.345 --> 01:15:53.248 IS THAT WE NEED TO KNOW THAT THE NURSERIES ARE ALREADY DOING 01:15:53.315 --> 01:15:56.318 A LOT OF GOOD THINGS, AND THEY STILL HAVE A PROBLEM. 01:15:56.551 --> 01:15:58.253 IF YOU'VE GOT A NURSERY THAT HAS SPRAYING, 01:15:58.320 --> 01:15:59.922 THEY'RE MONITORING, THEY'RE DOING EVERYTHING 01:15:59.988 --> 01:16:01.123 THAT'S REQUIRED. 01:16:01.189 --> 01:16:04.192 BUT THE WHOLE AREA AROUND THE NURSERY IS AFFECTED. 01:16:04.259 --> 01:16:05.460 WITH WEST, 01:16:05.527 --> 01:16:08.163 IT IS A REAL DIFFICULT PROBLEM TO MANAGE 01:16:08.230 --> 01:16:10.599 BECAUSE WHEN THAT THE PLANT GOES ON THAT TRUCK 01:16:10.666 --> 01:16:12.501 AND THAT COMMUNITY IS FULL OF WEST, 01:16:12.567 --> 01:16:13.669 THAT TRUCK IS GOING TO TAKE THE 01:16:13.735 --> 01:16:16.171 WEST AND SEND THAT ELSEWHERE IN THE STATE. 01:16:16.238 --> 01:16:16.738 SO WE NEED TO 01:16:16.805 --> 01:16:20.509 LOOK AT HOW WE CAN HELP THE NURSERIES BETTER MANAGE THAT 01:16:20.575 --> 01:16:23.745 BY PROBABLY SPRAYING CLOSE TO THE NURSERIES AND MAINTAINING 01:16:24.513 --> 01:16:26.415 CONTROLLING THAT POPULATION 01:16:26.481 --> 01:16:28.283 TO A LEVEL THAT WE DON'T SPREAD OUT ACROSS THE STATE. 01:16:29.251 --> 01:16:30.252 WITH THE TEXAS 01:16:30.319 --> 01:16:33.755 SITUATION, WE HAD TEN TRUCKS COME IN FROM TEXAS. 01:16:34.723 --> 01:16:35.657 THREE OF THOSE, 01:16:35.724 --> 01:16:38.727 ONLY THREE WERE IDENTIFIED BEFORE THEY GOT HERE. 01:16:39.494 --> 01:16:42.965 THAT MEANS THAT OUR BORDER PROTECTION INSPECTION STATIONS 01:16:43.565 --> 01:16:46.435 AREN'T WORKING THE WAY WE WOULD LIKE THEM TO WORK. 01:16:46.501 --> 01:16:49.004 AND I WANT TO BE CLEAR IT'S NOT THEIR FAULT. 01:16:49.071 --> 01:16:51.606 AGAIN, WHEN YOU GO BACK TO THE GREAT RECESSION, 01:16:51.673 --> 01:16:52.741 THEY LOST FUNDING. 01:16:52.808 --> 01:16:53.875 THEY WERE UNDERFUNDED, 01:16:53.942 --> 01:16:57.379 THEY'RE UNDERSTAFFED, AND THEY HAVE A DIFFICULT JOB TO DO. 01:16:57.879 --> 01:17:00.882 BUT WE'VE MENTIONED THE GLASS, THE SPOTTED LANTERNFLY, 01:17:01.650 --> 01:17:04.186 THAT PLANT THAT THAT THAT INSECT. 01:17:04.252 --> 01:17:05.821 WHEN IT COMES TO CALIFORNIA, 01:17:05.887 --> 01:17:08.156 IT IS LIKELY TO COME EITHER ONE OF TWO WAYS, 01:17:08.223 --> 01:17:11.159 EITHER ON THE HIGHWAY SYSTEM OR ON THE RAIL SYSTEM. 01:17:11.226 --> 01:17:14.396 SO THE BORDER INSPECTION STATIONS ARE VITAL 01:17:14.463 --> 01:17:17.366 TO MAKING SURE THAT WE ONE KNOW WHEN IT GETS HERE 01:17:17.432 --> 01:17:18.600 AND TRY TO BLOCK IT DOWN. 01:17:18.667 --> 01:17:22.471 WE'VE ALREADY HAD SHIPMENTS, WHERE THEY FOUND, THE, THE, 01:17:22.838 --> 01:17:27.075 EGG MASSES, AN AN ART FIXTURE THAT WAS SHIPPED TO SONOMA 01:17:27.509 --> 01:17:28.577 AND THEY CAUGHT IT IN TIME. 01:17:28.643 --> 01:17:32.481 WELL, WE WERE LUCKY WE FOUND, THAT, I'M DEAD. 01:17:33.782 --> 01:17:34.883 SPOTTED LANTERNFLY, 01:17:34.950 --> 01:17:37.953 AN AIRSHIP IS BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT VERY, 01:17:38.353 --> 01:17:39.087 HEARTY. 01:17:39.154 --> 01:17:40.555 THEY GET THE COLD WEATHER, 01:17:40.622 --> 01:17:42.524 WEATHER IN THE PLANE AND THEY DIE. 01:17:42.591 --> 01:17:44.126 BUT WE KNOW THAT 01:17:44.192 --> 01:17:45.560 THERE WILL BE SOME TRUCKS, 01:17:45.627 --> 01:17:48.096 SOME RV, OR SOMETHING'S GOING TO HAVE AN EGG MASS ON IT 01:17:48.163 --> 01:17:50.265 THAT'S GOING TO COME DOWN INTERSTATE 80. 01:17:50.332 --> 01:17:53.101 AND IF IT'S NOT INSPECTED AND THEY DON'T CATCH IT, 01:17:53.168 --> 01:17:56.004 IT'S GOING STRAIGHT TO NAPA, SONOMA AND OTHER AG. 01:17:56.071 --> 01:17:57.506 WINE REGIONS. 01:17:57.572 --> 01:18:00.208 SO WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING TO MAKE THESE, 01:18:00.275 --> 01:18:03.278 INSPECTION STATIONS MORE, MORE EFFECTIVE. 01:18:03.745 --> 01:18:05.180 REGARDING TREATMENT METHODS. 01:18:05.247 --> 01:18:07.616 I WANT TO SUGGEST A COUPLE THINGS WE CAN DO. 01:18:07.682 --> 01:18:09.985 ONE IS, SOMEBODY MENTIONED, ROBOTICS 01:18:10.052 --> 01:18:13.021 AND HOW WE, CAN USE ROBOTICS TO BETTER, 01:18:13.989 --> 01:18:16.992 GO THROUGH VINEYARDS AND IDENTIFY THINGS LIKE LEAF ROLL 01:18:17.059 --> 01:18:18.527 OR MEALYBUGS, 01:18:18.593 --> 01:18:19.294 WHEN, WHEN, 01:18:19.361 --> 01:18:22.564 WHEN A ROBOT CAN GO THROUGH AND SCAN THE THING AND COME BACK 01:18:22.631 --> 01:18:25.400 AND COME OUT WITH A FULL MAP OF WHERE THE PROBLEM IS, 01:18:25.467 --> 01:18:26.802 THEY CAN TREAT IT BETTER, 01:18:26.868 --> 01:18:30.338 THEY CAN IDENTIFY SPECIFICALLY WHERE THE PROBLEM IS GOING WITH 01:18:30.405 --> 01:18:32.874 ANOTHER ROBOT THAT WAS SPRAYED JUST WHERE IT'S NEEDED. 01:18:32.941 --> 01:18:33.942 IT WILL JUST USE IT. 01:18:34.009 --> 01:18:35.977 THE PEST MANAGEMENT TOOLS ARE NEEDED 01:18:36.044 --> 01:18:38.213 AND NOTHING MORE, AND IT CONTROLS IT 01:18:38.280 --> 01:18:41.283 MORE EFFECTIVELY AND TIMELY AND STOPS THOSE SPREADS. 01:18:42.017 --> 01:18:44.820 ADDITIONALLY, WHEN YOU LOOKING AT THE TOOLS THAT WE USE, 01:18:44.886 --> 01:18:47.155 WE APPRECIATE THAT THE LEGISLATURE HAS OFTEN COME 01:18:47.222 --> 01:18:50.792 AND ASKED TO DEAL WITH MANAGING THOSE, PEST MANAGEMENT TOOLS. 01:18:51.359 --> 01:18:54.396 BUT RECOGNIZE THAT EVERY TIME THAT THE LEGISLATURE SAYS 01:18:54.663 --> 01:18:57.399 YOU CAN'T USE THIS ONE OR YOU CAN'T USE THAT ONE, 01:18:57.466 --> 01:18:59.801 YOU'RE TAKING ONE MORE TOOL OUT OF THE TOOLBOX 01:18:59.868 --> 01:19:02.170 FOR US TO DEAL WITH THESE PEST ISSUES. 01:19:02.237 --> 01:19:05.040 SO WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE THE TOOLS 01:19:05.107 --> 01:19:06.908 NECESSARY TO DO THE JOB. 01:19:06.975 --> 01:19:07.742 AND FINALLY, 01:19:07.809 --> 01:19:10.912 WE TALKED ABOUT WHEN YOU HAVE THE TERRIBLE SITUATION 01:19:10.979 --> 01:19:13.281 WHERE YOU HAVE TO RIP OUT YOUR VINEYARD, RIGHT. 01:19:13.348 --> 01:19:14.683 AND I APPRECIATE, 01:19:15.717 --> 01:19:16.818 THE MAJORITY LEADER'S COMMENTS. 01:19:16.885 --> 01:19:18.720 IT IS A TOUGH THING FOR PEOPLE TO DO, 01:19:18.787 --> 01:19:20.655 BUT THEY HAVE TO DO IT IN MANY CASES. 01:19:20.722 --> 01:19:21.957 IT'S EXPENSIVE, 01:19:22.023 --> 01:19:23.825 A BIG AREA WHERE THERE'S A PROBLEM WITH 01:19:23.892 --> 01:19:25.560 THAT IS IN THE CENTRAL VALLEY. 01:19:25.627 --> 01:19:29.131 WHAT'S HAPPENING THERE IS IN MANY CASES, THE ECONOMICS. 01:19:29.197 --> 01:19:31.333 THEY TAKE OUT THE VINEYARD. YOU HAVE TO 01:19:31.399 --> 01:19:34.503 IN OTHER CASES, HOWEVER, IT'S A DISEASE VINEYARD. 01:19:35.270 --> 01:19:38.006 THAT GROWER CAN LOOK AT A TREE ASSISTANCE PROGRAM 01:19:38.073 --> 01:19:39.341 AND GET SOME FUNDING 01:19:39.407 --> 01:19:42.477 IF THEY CAN, PULL THAT OUT AND DEAL WITH THAT ISSUE. 01:19:42.711 --> 01:19:44.012 HOWEVER, UNDER THE TREE 01:19:44.079 --> 01:19:46.515 ASSISTANCE PROGRAM, YOU HAVE TO BURN IT. 01:19:46.581 --> 01:19:47.682 YOU CAN'T MULCH IT. 01:19:47.749 --> 01:19:49.518 YOU CAN'T CHIP THAT. YOU CAN'T. 01:19:49.584 --> 01:19:52.587 IT HAS TO BE BURNED OR YOU LOSE THAT FEDERAL SUPPORT 01:19:52.854 --> 01:19:54.789 IN THE CENTRAL VALLEY. YOU CAN'T BURN ANYMORE. 01:19:54.856 --> 01:19:56.858 IT'S IT'S PROHIBITED NOW. 01:19:56.925 --> 01:19:58.193 SO WHAT THEY'RE DOING IS 01:19:58.260 --> 01:20:00.862 ARE LOOKING AT THINGS LIKE CURTAIN BURNERS. RIGHT. 01:20:00.929 --> 01:20:02.063 HIGH DEMAND. 01:20:02.130 --> 01:20:03.031 IT'S NOT AVAILABLE. 01:20:03.098 --> 01:20:05.200 IT'S INCREDIBLY COSTLY. 01:20:05.267 --> 01:20:08.336 WHAT THE SILICON VALLEY AIR PROTECTION DISTRICT DID 01:20:08.403 --> 01:20:10.639 WAS TO COME UP WITH SOME FUNDING FOR THOSE GROWERS 01:20:10.705 --> 01:20:11.239 WHERE THEY SAID, 01:20:11.306 --> 01:20:14.843 WE WILL GIVE YOU A GRANT OF TO HELP COVER THE COST. 01:20:15.177 --> 01:20:17.279 THAT MONEY DRIED UP LAST SUMMER. 01:20:17.345 --> 01:20:19.214 THERE'S NO MONEY AVAILABLE FOR THAT. 01:20:19.281 --> 01:20:21.917 SO WHAT WE'VE ASKED FOR FOR THE LAST TWO YEARS, 01:20:21.983 --> 01:20:23.518 BECAUSE WE'VE SEEN THIS COMING 01:20:23.585 --> 01:20:25.654 AS WE'VE LOOKED AT THE GREENHOUSE GAS REDUCTION 01:20:25.720 --> 01:20:28.823 FUND AS A POTENTIAL WAY OF FUNDING THAT EFFORT. 01:20:28.890 --> 01:20:31.893 IF THE DISTRICT CAN GET SOME FUNDING FROM THE GRF 01:20:32.093 --> 01:20:36.298 AND THEN USE THAT TO HELP THE, GROWERS DEAL WITH THIS ISSUE, 01:20:36.364 --> 01:20:37.098 THAT'LL BE HELPFUL, 01:20:37.165 --> 01:20:40.235 BECAUSE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THEY CAN'T DEAL WITH IT 01:20:40.535 --> 01:20:41.469 IS THAT A COUPLE THINGS. 01:20:41.536 --> 01:20:44.306 ONE, YOU'VE GOT THE VINEYARD THAT'S TAKEN OUT AND JUST LEFT. 01:20:44.372 --> 01:20:48.476 THERE IS A VINEYARD THAT BECOMES A HAVEN FOR, FOR RODENTS 01:20:48.543 --> 01:20:51.846 AS WELL AS THE DISEASE THAT IF IT WAS A DISEASE, A VINEYARD. 01:20:52.113 --> 01:20:54.883 AND NOW THERE BECOMES A THREAT TO THE ENTIRE REGION. 01:20:54.950 --> 01:20:57.452 SO THOSE ARE SOME OF THE OPTIONS, 01:20:57.519 --> 01:21:00.021 THAT WE HAVE, THAT I WANT TO OFFER TODAY. 01:21:02.190 --> 01:21:05.026 I GUESS GOING FORWARD, THE 01:21:05.093 --> 01:21:08.096 I RECOGNIZE HOW WE GOT HERE AND WHERE WE ARE, 01:21:08.330 --> 01:21:10.565 THERE ARE TOUGH DECISIONS THAT HAVE TO BE MADE, 01:21:10.632 --> 01:21:12.534 BUT I THINK WE HAVE TO DEAL WITH. 01:21:12.601 --> 01:21:15.670 I THINK THAT SOME OF THE COMMENTS MADE FROM DOCTOR CRON, 01:21:16.271 --> 01:21:20.342 $110 MILLION IN CROP LOSS ANNUALLY, THAT'S REAL. 01:21:21.309 --> 01:21:23.812 TRACY MENTIONED, IF IT'S, 01:21:23.878 --> 01:21:26.348 GREEN, YELLOW, RED, WE'RE AT RED. 01:21:26.414 --> 01:21:27.382 THAT'S REAL. 01:21:27.449 --> 01:21:29.618 JOSH, USE THE WORD SEISMIC. 01:21:29.684 --> 01:21:30.785 THESE ARE REAL PROBLEMS. 01:21:30.852 --> 01:21:32.854 AS A FORMER STAFFER IN THE CAPITAL, 01:21:32.921 --> 01:21:35.190 I KNOW THAT PEOPLE COME TO YOU ALL THE TIME 01:21:35.257 --> 01:21:37.058 ASKING FOR THE HANDOUT, 01:21:37.125 --> 01:21:40.195 ASKING FOR SOMETHING, AND THEY SAY THE SKY IS FALLING, 01:21:40.262 --> 01:21:41.963 THE SKY IS FALLING. 01:21:42.030 --> 01:21:42.897 IT'S BAD. 01:21:42.964 --> 01:21:45.166 IT IS REALLY BAD. AND WE NEED SOME HELP. 01:21:45.233 --> 01:21:48.236 THANK YOU. 01:21:49.337 --> 01:21:50.272 THANK YOU MICHAEL. 01:21:50.338 --> 01:21:52.641 THANK YOU. I DO YOU HAVE QUESTIONS? 01:21:55.377 --> 01:21:55.577 YEAH. 01:21:55.644 --> 01:21:58.647 YEAH. THANK YOU. 01:21:59.180 --> 01:22:02.017 I APPRECIATE THE, THE JUST THE, THE LONG ACTION 01:22:02.083 --> 01:22:05.220 LIST THAT WE CAN, WE CAN TAKE UP, TOGETHER. 01:22:06.154 --> 01:22:07.088 IN THE CAPITAL AS WELL. 01:22:07.155 --> 01:22:11.026 SO APPRECIATE THE SPECIFICITY AND THE RANGE OF OPTIONS 01:22:11.092 --> 01:22:14.095 THAT WILL, WILL HELP US MAYBE GET TO ORANGE, 01:22:14.462 --> 01:22:16.998 FROM RED, AND ARE WORTH WORTH CONSIDERING. 01:22:17.065 --> 01:22:20.035 THERE'S ONE OTHER, YOU KNOW, THE, 01:22:20.101 --> 01:22:22.470 I, I HAPPENED TO CHAIR THE THE TECHNOLOGY 01:22:22.537 --> 01:22:25.540 COMMITTEE FOR THE SENATE AND, 01:22:26.941 --> 01:22:28.877 WE ARE ANTICIPATING, 01:22:28.943 --> 01:22:32.480 THE WORLD IS ANTICIPATING THAT SOME OF THE MAJOR TECHNOLOGY 01:22:32.547 --> 01:22:35.950 COMPANIES, PARTICULARLY THE TO THE, TO TO OUR LABS AND SPACE 01:22:36.418 --> 01:22:37.919 MAY GO PUBLIC 01:22:37.986 --> 01:22:40.989 IN THE COMING MONTHS OR IN THE COMING COUPLE OF YEARS, 01:22:41.456 --> 01:22:44.726 WHICH WILL MEAN POTENTIALLY A LARGE, LARGE 01:22:45.293 --> 01:22:48.296 EPISODIC WINDFALLS OF CASH, 01:22:48.363 --> 01:22:51.099 FOR ON THE TAX ROLLS. 01:22:51.166 --> 01:22:54.302 AND, AND AND WE DON'T KNOW WHEN WE DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH. 01:22:54.369 --> 01:22:55.203 WE ACTUALLY DON'T EVEN KNOW 01:22:55.270 --> 01:22:58.206 IF WE'LL BE ABLE TO SPEND IT BECAUSE OF THE GAS LIMIT. 01:22:58.273 --> 01:23:00.108 SO THAT'S A SEPARATE ISSUE. BUT 01:23:01.176 --> 01:23:05.013 AS, MOST OF THE BUDGET REQUESTS THAT I KNOW THAT WE BOTH 01:23:05.080 --> 01:23:08.683 RECEIVE ARE ONGOING PERMANENT BUDGET REQUESTS, AND WE SHOULD. 01:23:08.750 --> 01:23:10.185 AND YOU'VE MADE A COUPLE OF 01:23:10.251 --> 01:23:10.952 YOU'VE IDENTIFIED 01:23:11.019 --> 01:23:14.022 A COUPLE OF THOSE JUST NOW, WHICH AND THOSE ARE IMPORTANT 01:23:14.222 --> 01:23:15.390 FOR US TO CONSIDER. 01:23:15.457 --> 01:23:18.360 BUT I DO THINK IT'S ALSO THE THERE'S SEPARATELY 01:23:18.426 --> 01:23:21.296 WE SHOULD BE THINKING ABOUT IF THERE ARE, 01:23:21.363 --> 01:23:24.799 SUBSTANTIAL ONE TIME REVENUES, WHAT MIGHT WE DO THAT 01:23:24.866 --> 01:23:26.401 WOULD ATTACK THE PROBLEM 01:23:26.468 --> 01:23:29.537 IN A, IN A WAY THAT WOULD AVOID LONGER TERM COSTS. 01:23:29.604 --> 01:23:32.774 SO FOR EXAMPLE, IF, IF WE'RE ON IF WE ARE, YOU KNOW, IF 01:23:32.841 --> 01:23:36.778 WE'RE TRYING TO, IF ERADICATION IS POSSIBLE IN SOME, 01:23:36.845 --> 01:23:39.848 IN SOME OF THESE PLACES AND IN SOME OF THESE VECTORS. 01:23:40.482 --> 01:23:43.118 BUT IT'S TOO EXPENSIVE. 01:23:43.184 --> 01:23:46.121 THAT BUT BUT IT IS FEASIBLE, 01:23:46.187 --> 01:23:48.957 TO, TO ACCOMPLISH THEN WE OUGHT TO BE THINKING 01:23:49.023 --> 01:23:50.158 WE OUGHT TO ASK OURSELVES THE QUESTION, 01:23:50.225 --> 01:23:53.762 AT LEAST IF WE HAD ENOUGH MONEY TO FUND ERADICATION 01:23:54.362 --> 01:23:57.332 NOW OR IN THE NEXT YEAR OR TWO. 01:23:57.632 --> 01:23:59.234 WOULD THAT AND WE DO THAT. 01:23:59.300 --> 01:24:01.936 IT'S A SIGNIFICANT SCALE WITH MORE THAN ONE VECTOR. 01:24:02.003 --> 01:24:03.037 COULD WE, 01:24:03.104 --> 01:24:05.473 COULD WE NOT REDUCE THE 10 MILLION 01:24:05.540 --> 01:24:07.675 THAT YOU'RE DESCRIBING BECAUSE THAT'S, THAT'S CHUMP CHANGE. 01:24:07.742 --> 01:24:10.612 BUT BUT AVOID POTENTIALLY, YOU KNOW, THE PRESSURE 01:24:10.678 --> 01:24:13.915 FOR EVEN MUCH LARGER THERE COSTS ON AN ONGOING BASIS. 01:24:13.982 --> 01:24:15.316 AND SO I WOULD ENCOURAGE, 01:24:15.383 --> 01:24:17.519 YOU KNOW, OUR FOLKS WHO HAVE TESTIFIED TODAY 01:24:17.585 --> 01:24:20.422 AND OTHER EXPERTS TO HELP US THINK THAT THROUGH 01:24:20.488 --> 01:24:22.290 ERADICATION IS NOT ALWAYS AN OPTION 01:24:22.357 --> 01:24:25.226 FOR A VARIETY OF BIOLOGICAL COMMUNITY CONCERN 01:24:25.293 --> 01:24:25.860 AND OTHER REASON. 01:24:25.927 --> 01:24:28.763 SO I KNOW IT'S NOT IT'S NOT THE PANACEA. 01:24:28.830 --> 01:24:29.397 AND IT MAY NOT. 01:24:29.464 --> 01:24:32.467 ERADICATION IS JUST ONE OF THESE DIMENSIONS WHERE WE MIGHT SEE 01:24:32.700 --> 01:24:35.537 IS THERE A BIG PLAY THAT WE MIGHT DO? 01:24:35.603 --> 01:24:36.070 THAT MIGHT. 01:24:36.137 --> 01:24:39.474 AND BY ONE TIME I DON'T MEAN JUST ONCE, BUT MAYBE TWICE NOT. 01:24:39.541 --> 01:24:40.909 NOT FOREVER. 01:24:40.975 --> 01:24:44.045 THAT WOULD ALLOW US TO, TO TO REALLY GET AT THE, 01:24:44.112 --> 01:24:45.847 TO GET AT THE ROOT OF THE PROBLEM 01:24:45.914 --> 01:24:48.850 AND ALSO TO, TO DO SO IN A WAY THAT DOESN'T REQUIRE US 01:24:48.917 --> 01:24:49.517 TO KEEP ADDING 01:24:49.584 --> 01:24:51.286 ANOTHER 10 MILLION AND, TO 10 MILLION 01:24:51.352 --> 01:24:53.288 AND A 10 MILLION IN PERMANENT, ONGOING COMMITMENT. 01:24:53.354 --> 01:24:54.889 SO I APPRECIATE THE LIST THAT YOU'VE 01:24:54.956 --> 01:24:55.824 YOU'VE GIVEN US, MICHAEL, 01:24:55.890 --> 01:24:58.893 AND WOULD JUST ASK US TO THINK ABOUT THIS ADDITIONAL, 01:24:59.127 --> 01:25:00.295 THIS ADDITIONAL ADDITIONAL 01:25:00.361 --> 01:25:03.364 DIMENSION AS WELL, THE EXTENT WE MIGHT MAKE SIGNIFICANT, 01:25:04.132 --> 01:25:06.000 ONE TIME INVESTMENTS OR SHORT TERM INVESTMENTS 01:25:06.067 --> 01:25:08.903 THAT WOULD EAT AT THE AT THE BASIC PROBLEM ITSELF, 01:25:08.970 --> 01:25:10.805 I THINK, YOU KNOW, I'LL COMMIT TO TRY TO COME UP 01:25:10.872 --> 01:25:12.674 WITH SOME OPTIONS FOR YOU TO CONSIDER. 01:25:12.740 --> 01:25:14.108 THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU. 01:25:16.377 --> 01:25:16.878 AS I SIT HERE, 01:25:16.945 --> 01:25:19.914 THINK ABOUT WHAT DOES ERADICATION LOOK LIKE, 01:25:19.981 --> 01:25:22.116 YOU KNOW, WHAT DOES IT REALLY LOOK LIKE 01:25:22.183 --> 01:25:26.087 AND WHAT WHAT'S THE MOST BANG FOR OUR BUCK WHEN WE DO THAT? 01:25:27.055 --> 01:25:30.058 AND, YEAH. 01:25:31.893 --> 01:25:33.995 THAT THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION. 01:25:34.062 --> 01:25:35.530 IT'S, 01:25:35.597 --> 01:25:38.066 I'D SAY IT'S CHALLENGING TO ANSWER. 01:25:38.132 --> 01:25:40.435 WE DO KNOW, 01:25:40.502 --> 01:25:43.104 THE PDC PROGRAM, THE PIERCE'S DISEASE CONTROL PROGRAM. 01:25:43.171 --> 01:25:44.405 WE'VE HAD, 01:25:44.472 --> 01:25:47.108 I THINK THE STATS ARE 18 COURSE ERADICATION 01:25:47.175 --> 01:25:48.977 THROUGHOUT THE STATE OVER MANY, MANY YEARS. 01:25:49.043 --> 01:25:51.913 SO WE CAN DO IT. WE'RE VERY GOOD AT IT. 01:25:51.980 --> 01:25:55.383 BUT THAT WAS ALWAYS ONE OFFS ON A ON A MUCH SMALLER SCALE. 01:25:55.450 --> 01:25:58.453 SO YES. NOW WE'RE FACING, 01:25:58.953 --> 01:26:01.222 MORE ERADICATION EFFORTS AND NEEDS 01:26:01.289 --> 01:26:02.657 THAT ARE POPPING UP ALL OVER THE PLACE. 01:26:02.724 --> 01:26:04.392 IT'S A LITTLE BIT LIKE WHACK A MOLE. 01:26:04.459 --> 01:26:06.895 SO I THINK WE'RE KIND OF TRYING TO FIGURE OUT, 01:26:08.129 --> 01:26:08.696 IF THAT CAN 01:26:08.763 --> 01:26:11.699 WORK, HOW IT WILL WORK. 01:26:11.766 --> 01:26:14.769 AND THEN PLAYING THE LONG GAME, 01:26:15.136 --> 01:26:18.139 YOU KNOW, WHAT DO WE FOCUS REGIONALLY? 01:26:18.206 --> 01:26:21.643 DO WE FOCUS ON, HIGH WINEGROWING REGIONS? 01:26:21.709 --> 01:26:25.480 I MEAN, IT'S THERE'S A LOT OF IFS, A LOT OF WHAT IFS. 01:26:25.547 --> 01:26:28.516 IF WE LEAVE IT TO BE, YOU KNOW, LEAVE THIS COUNTY 01:26:28.583 --> 01:26:31.586 TO BECOME INFESTED, AND THEN WE JUST ACCEPT THAT IT IS, 01:26:32.353 --> 01:26:34.155 YOU KNOW, HOW DOES THAT IMPACT AGRICULTURE THERE? 01:26:34.222 --> 01:26:35.490 HOW DOES THAT IMPACT THE ECONOMY? 01:26:35.557 --> 01:26:36.257 HOW DOES THAT IMPACT 01:26:36.324 --> 01:26:39.561 ANYTHING THAT'S COMING FROM THAT COUNTY TO WEST FREE COUNTY? 01:26:39.627 --> 01:26:41.362 SO THERE'S A LOT OF THINGS TO THINK ABOUT. 01:26:41.429 --> 01:26:45.266 WE CAN ERADICATE AND WE'VE DONE IT, BUT NEVER ON THIS SCALE. 01:26:45.333 --> 01:26:48.336 SO THAT'S DEFINITELY A WHOLE DIFFERENT, 01:26:48.703 --> 01:26:50.038 PART OF THE GAME. 01:26:50.104 --> 01:26:51.072 AND IF I COULD ADD ON TO THAT, 01:26:52.307 --> 01:26:53.074 I DID READ 01:26:53.141 --> 01:26:55.710 ON SOME OF THE HISTORY ABOUT WHEN THE PROGRAM WAS CREATED, 01:26:55.777 --> 01:26:58.346 AND THEY DID LOOK AT STATEWIDE ERADICATION 01:26:58.413 --> 01:27:01.482 OF WHAT THAT WOULD LOOK LIKE, AND THE COSTS WERE HUGE. 01:27:01.549 --> 01:27:03.651 THEY JUST SAID THAT THAT WASN'T REALLY MANAGEABLE. 01:27:03.718 --> 01:27:08.056 BUT THROUGH THIS CONTROL PROGRAM, IT WAS MORE PHYSICALLY, 01:27:08.623 --> 01:27:11.626 A FISCALLY PRUDENT. 01:27:12.193 --> 01:27:12.293 YEAH. 01:27:12.360 --> 01:27:14.963 THEN ALSO, I MEAN, STATEWIDE 01:27:15.029 --> 01:27:19.033 ERADICATION BECOMES A CONTINUAL WHAC-A-MOLE, RIGHT? 01:27:19.100 --> 01:27:21.069 BECAUSE YOU'RE AGAIN, YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE IMPORTATION 01:27:21.135 --> 01:27:22.670 POTENTIALLY FROM NURSERIES OUT OF STATE. 01:27:22.737 --> 01:27:23.905 YOU KNOW, THERE'S ALWAYS THAT RISK. 01:27:23.972 --> 01:27:25.840 SO, YOU KNOW, I 01:27:25.907 --> 01:27:27.208 YOU KNOW, I WOULD I WOULDN'T WANT TO SAY 01:27:27.275 --> 01:27:28.910 THAT ERADICATION IS IMPOSSIBLE. 01:27:28.977 --> 01:27:32.046 BUT YEAH, IT CERTAINLY WE CAN. 01:27:33.147 --> 01:27:36.117 IT'S ONE THING FOR CALIFORNIA TO BE VERY ON TOP OF 01:27:36.184 --> 01:27:36.784 VERY AGGRESSIVE. 01:27:36.851 --> 01:27:40.755 BUT AGAIN, WE HAVE TO LOOK AT OTHER SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES 01:27:40.822 --> 01:27:43.491 AND FROM THOSE AREAS AS WELL AS AN ISSUE, 01:27:45.093 --> 01:27:47.395 IT'S IT'S LOOKING AT THE COSTS ON BOTH SIDES, 01:27:47.462 --> 01:27:48.463 THE ERADICATION EFFORT 01:27:48.529 --> 01:27:49.497 AND THEN THE CONTINUAL 01:27:49.564 --> 01:27:52.600 MANAGEMENT EFFORT THAT'S HAPPENING IN TEMECULA 01:27:52.667 --> 01:27:53.368 AND OTHER AREAS. 01:27:53.434 --> 01:27:55.770 SO, YEAH, YOU LOOK AT ALL OF THOSE PARTS, 01:27:55.837 --> 01:28:00.375 I WOULD SAY SPEAKING FOR NAPA, I AM PUSHING FOR ERADICATION. 01:28:00.441 --> 01:28:02.844 IF IT WERE TO POP UP IN NAPA, I DON'T THINK I HAVE A CHOICE 01:28:02.910 --> 01:28:05.780 AT THIS POINT TO TO LOOK OUTSIDE OF THAT. 01:28:05.847 --> 01:28:08.816 SO I WOULD PUSH FOR THAT. 01:28:08.883 --> 01:28:11.152 IF WHETHER THAT'S REALISTIC OR NOT, I DON'T KNOW. 01:28:11.219 --> 01:28:13.621 BUT THAT'S, THAT'S KIND OF WHERE MY HEAD IS AT NOW. 01:28:13.688 --> 01:28:14.956 SO I'M DEFINITELY 01:28:15.023 --> 01:28:18.326 THINKING, LONG TERM AND THEN A LITTLE MORE OUTSIDE OF THE BOX. 01:28:18.393 --> 01:28:21.362 IF WE DON'T FOLLOW THIS TRADITIONAL PATH OF ERADICATION, 01:28:21.429 --> 01:28:22.930 THEN THEN WHAT CAN WE DO? 01:28:22.997 --> 01:28:26.200 WHAT CAN I DO AHEAD OF WHAT WE NORMALLY DO? 01:28:26.968 --> 01:28:28.536 THAT MAKES SENSE. 01:28:28.603 --> 01:28:32.073 WE HAVE AN INCREDIBLE, INSTITUTION HERE AT UC DAVIS. 01:28:32.807 --> 01:28:34.942 HELLO, UC DAVIS WOMEN'S HEALTH 01:28:36.110 --> 01:28:38.246 AND YEAH, 01:28:38.312 --> 01:28:42.817 JUST SAYING AND, KIND OF CONNECTED TO THE ISSUE 01:28:42.884 --> 01:28:46.154 OF WHETHER ERADICATION IS, IS NECESSARY. 01:28:47.221 --> 01:28:49.691 AND, SENATOR BALDWIN MENTIONED THAT EARLIER 01:28:49.757 --> 01:28:51.492 TALKING ABOUT CRISPR, RIGHT? 01:28:51.559 --> 01:28:54.462 I MEAN, YEAH, IS THERE IN MOST CROPS. 01:28:54.529 --> 01:28:56.531 RIGHT. YOU CAN EITHER. 01:28:56.597 --> 01:28:58.533 WELL, I WON'T I WON'T SAY THAT WORD. 01:28:58.599 --> 01:29:00.034 BUT YOU CAN GENERALLY USE RESISTANCE 01:29:00.101 --> 01:29:03.004 FOR EATING BACK, CROSS-BREEDING MOLECULAR TECHNIQUES. 01:29:03.071 --> 01:29:03.404 RIGHT. 01:29:03.471 --> 01:29:06.507 TO, HAVE RESISTANCE, WITHIN YOUR CROP. 01:29:06.574 --> 01:29:07.241 RIGHT. 01:29:07.308 --> 01:29:08.743 AND VERY COMMONPLACE. 01:29:08.810 --> 01:29:09.610 YOU COULD SAID, OH, IT'S 01:29:09.677 --> 01:29:11.512 GOING TO TAKE US 15 YEARS TO GET THERE. 01:29:11.579 --> 01:29:12.113 YOU KNOW, 01:29:12.180 --> 01:29:14.215 PDR ONE, THE RESISTANCE GENE FOR PIERCE'S 01:29:14.282 --> 01:29:16.984 DISEASE IS ACTUALLY COMES FROM GRAPEVINES 01:29:17.051 --> 01:29:20.221 THAT EVOLVED IN MEXICO AND SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES. 01:29:20.288 --> 01:29:22.256 LIKE, OH, GREAT, LET'S STICK IT IN EVERYWHERE, 01:29:22.323 --> 01:29:25.827 WHICH WOULD WORK IN OTHER CROPS AND WINE. 01:29:25.893 --> 01:29:30.398 GRAPES ARE SO UNIQUE BECAUSE WE'RE ATTACHED TO 800, 01:29:30.698 --> 01:29:35.036 YOU KNOW, 1100 YEAR OLD CLONES THAT ARE MEAN EVERYTHING. 01:29:35.103 --> 01:29:35.670 RIGHT? 01:29:35.737 --> 01:29:39.407 AND THE GENETICS, IT'S JUST A VERY, VERY DIFFERENT LANDSCAPE. 01:29:40.141 --> 01:29:41.776 SO EVEN IF, 01:29:41.843 --> 01:29:43.044 PINOT NOIR LOOKED 01:29:43.111 --> 01:29:43.845 THE SAME, TASTED 01:29:43.911 --> 01:29:47.014 THE SAME PRODUCE, THE SAME WINE, IF THE PUBLIC KNEW THAT 01:29:47.081 --> 01:29:48.816 THERE WAS OTHER GENETICS THAT WERE BROUGHT IN, 01:29:48.883 --> 01:29:51.652 AND IT JUST BECOMES A A DIFFERENT ISSUE. 01:29:51.719 --> 01:29:54.021 AND I JUST BRING THAT UP BECAUSE IT IS 01:29:54.088 --> 01:29:55.656 IT'S GREAT THAT THERE'S THAT, 01:29:57.024 --> 01:29:57.658 OBEISANCE, 01:29:57.725 --> 01:30:00.728 LACK OF A BETTER WORD TO TRADITION. 01:30:00.795 --> 01:30:02.964 BUT OTHER CROPS, YOU YOU DON'T REALLY NEED TO DEAL WITH THAT. 01:30:03.030 --> 01:30:04.132 YOU KNOW, YOU CAN HAVE A NEW CULTIVAR 01:30:04.198 --> 01:30:05.666 COME OUT EVERY 2 TO 3 YEARS, 01:30:05.733 --> 01:30:08.736 AND PEOPLE ARE EXPECTING THAT, BUT THAT'S JUST NOT THE, 01:30:09.137 --> 01:30:12.640 THE AT LEAST THE, CALIFORNIA, YOU KNOW, VITUS VINIFERA BASED 01:30:12.707 --> 01:30:14.408 KIND OF WINE GRAPE LANDSCAPE. 01:30:14.475 --> 01:30:17.445 IF YOU IF I GO TO THAT, TOO, THERE'S BEEN RESEARCH HERE AT UC 01:30:17.512 --> 01:30:20.248 DAVIS ON THERE'S CORNELL, OREGON STATE. 01:30:20.314 --> 01:30:22.784 OTHERS WERE LOOKING AT HOW DO WE MAKE THE GRAPE? 01:30:22.850 --> 01:30:26.621 I'M MORE RESISTANT TO PIERCE'S DISEASE, AND THE BOARD 01:30:26.687 --> 01:30:29.724 HAS PUT QUITE A BIT OF FUNDING INTO THAT RESEARCH EVERY YEAR. 01:30:30.424 --> 01:30:30.758 IT IS A 01:30:30.825 --> 01:30:32.560 TOUGH NUT TO CRACK, AS JOSH SAID, 01:30:32.627 --> 01:30:34.662 FOR A BUNCH OF DIFFERENT REASONS. 01:30:34.729 --> 01:30:39.400 BUT WHEN THEY TOOK, 800,000 OUT OF THAT RESEARCH THIS YEAR 01:30:39.600 --> 01:30:41.502 TO DEAL WITH THE SITUATION, 01:30:41.569 --> 01:30:43.171 THAT RESEARCH IS ON HOLD A LITTLE BIT 01:30:43.237 --> 01:30:45.773 BECAUSE WE HAVE TO DEAL WITH THE EMERGING CRISIS. 01:30:45.840 --> 01:30:48.910 SO IT'S A BALANCING ACT WHERE LIMITED RESOURCES, 01:30:48.976 --> 01:30:50.011 YOU CAN DO WHAT YOU CAN. 01:30:51.212 --> 01:30:51.412 YEAH. 01:30:51.479 --> 01:30:54.682 YOU KNOW, DURING THE, THE WHAT WE'RE DEALING WITH 01:30:54.749 --> 01:30:55.249 IN YOUR CLASSROOM. 01:30:55.316 --> 01:30:55.750 SHARPSHOOTER. 01:30:55.817 --> 01:30:59.687 THE FIRST ROUND, CALIFORNIA'S BUDGET WAS STRUCTURALLY, 01:30:59.754 --> 01:31:01.289 EXTREMELY DIFFERENT. 01:31:01.355 --> 01:31:03.991 CALIFORNIA'S THE ONLY I THINK IT'S 01:31:04.058 --> 01:31:05.827 I THINK THIS IS STILL THE CASE. 01:31:05.893 --> 01:31:07.395 CALIFORNIA'S NOT JUST THE ONLY STATE. 01:31:07.461 --> 01:31:10.164 IT'S THE ONLY GOVERNMENT, STATE OR NATIONAL GOVERNMENT 01:31:10.231 --> 01:31:11.866 ON THE PLANET. 01:31:11.933 --> 01:31:16.237 THAT HAS SOMETHING AKIN TO A $30 BILLION PERMANENT 01:31:16.304 --> 01:31:21.709 DEFICIT AND YEARS IN WHICH IT HAS A 30 OR $50 BILLION, 01:31:22.109 --> 01:31:25.112 ONE TIME UNEXPECTED SURPLUS. 01:31:25.913 --> 01:31:28.216 THAT'S NOW A FEATURE OF OUR PUBLIC FINANCE SYSTEM. 01:31:28.282 --> 01:31:30.618 AND IT HAS BEEN SINCE FACEBOOK WENT PUBLIC. 01:31:30.685 --> 01:31:31.853 THAT'S NOT NEW. 01:31:31.919 --> 01:31:32.954 BUT I THINK, YOU KNOW, 01:31:33.020 --> 01:31:34.555 ESPECIALLY THOSE OF US WHO'VE BEEN AROUND FOR A WHILE, 01:31:34.622 --> 01:31:35.156 WE KEEP THINKING 01:31:35.223 --> 01:31:36.791 THAT'S GOING TO STOP AND WE WILL BE LIKE 01:31:36.858 --> 01:31:39.594 ANY OTHER GOVERNMENT OR COMPANY OR NONPROFIT 01:31:39.660 --> 01:31:42.563 WHERE WE'RE MOSTLY THINKING ABOUT WHAT TO SPEND EACH YEAR. 01:31:42.630 --> 01:31:44.498 BUT OUR BUDGET ARE NOT LIKE THAT ANY LONGER. 01:31:44.565 --> 01:31:46.033 AND AND THAT 01:31:46.100 --> 01:31:48.436 THAT'S AN ENORMOUS CHALLENGE FOR THOSE OF US 01:31:48.502 --> 01:31:50.571 THAT ARE TRYING TO MAKE A BUDGET. 01:31:50.638 --> 01:31:51.706 BUT IT ALSO OPENS UP 01:31:51.772 --> 01:31:54.842 A DIFFERENT SET OF A DIFFERENT BOX OF SOLUTIONS 01:31:54.909 --> 01:31:57.812 THAT IS UNLIKE WHAT YOU MIGHT WHAT YOU COULD IMAGINE 01:31:57.879 --> 01:32:01.515 IN ONTARIO OR MISSISSIPPI OR ANYWHERE ELSE. 01:32:02.250 --> 01:32:05.319 AND SO YOU KNOW, MY, MY OWN VIEW IS IT'S INCUMBENT ON US TO, 01:32:05.386 --> 01:32:06.821 TO AT LEAST CONSIDER 01:32:06.888 --> 01:32:09.891 THOSE WHAT WOULD ANYWHERE ELSE BE SEEN AS MOONSHOT PLAYS. 01:32:10.091 --> 01:32:11.225 BUT HERE ARE ACTUALLY QUITE 01:32:11.292 --> 01:32:12.960 POSSIBLE IF YOU JUST PICK THE RIGHT EAR. 01:32:14.195 --> 01:32:17.098 AND, AND THEY AND IN SOME SENSE THEY'RE MORE POSSIBLE 01:32:17.164 --> 01:32:20.868 THEN HOW DO WE ADD $26 MILLION TO A CD FOR EVERY YEAR? 01:32:21.102 --> 01:32:23.404 THAT'S I THINK THE PERSONALLY, I THINK THAT'S DOABLE, 01:32:23.471 --> 01:32:24.839 BUT IT IS NOT. IT IS. 01:32:24.906 --> 01:32:26.941 IT IS AS MUCH OF A CHALLENGE AS IN A YEAR 01:32:27.008 --> 01:32:31.545 WHERE WE HAVE A $20 BILLION IPO FROM, FROM OPENAI AND, 01:32:31.746 --> 01:32:34.081 AND WE'RE LIKE, WELL, COULD WE SPEND $100 MILLION 01:32:34.148 --> 01:32:36.550 ON ERRATIC ON AN ERADICATION PROGRAM THIS YEAR? 01:32:36.617 --> 01:32:39.720 THAT'S ACTUALLY A MUCH SIMPLER THAN $26 MILLION FOREVER. 01:32:40.321 --> 01:32:44.191 SO WE JUST SO IT'S IT'S, I'M SIMPLY ENCOURAGING, 01:32:44.458 --> 01:32:47.228 YOU KNOW, RESEARCHERS, INNOVATORS, CREATORS, 01:32:47.295 --> 01:32:50.831 YOU KNOW, ADVOCATES AND OTHERS TO, TO THINK ABOUT, 01:32:51.098 --> 01:32:54.101 THINK ABOUT THESE, THESE THE OPPORTUNITY SET DIFFERENTLY, 01:32:54.502 --> 01:32:56.304 SO THAT WE CAN MAKE SURE THAT THAT, 01:32:56.370 --> 01:32:57.805 IF THEY'RE, YOU KNOW, WHEN THERE ARE THESE 01:32:57.872 --> 01:32:58.606 BIG DIVIDENDS 01:32:58.673 --> 01:33:01.776 FROM SOME OF THESE WORLD CHANGING ECONOMY, CHANGING 01:33:01.842 --> 01:33:03.010 TECHNOLOGY CHIPS THAT 01:33:03.077 --> 01:33:06.080 THAT AGRICULTURE IN PARTICULAR IS NOT LEFT BEHIND, 01:33:06.147 --> 01:33:07.748 AND THAT WE'RE, THAT WE'RE ASSURING 01:33:07.815 --> 01:33:08.683 THAT WE'RE TACKLING 01:33:08.749 --> 01:33:12.153 SOME OF THE, WE'RE TACKLING THE RED, THE, THE RED CRISIS. 01:33:12.720 --> 01:33:15.256 NOT THE COMMUNIST ONE, BUT THE RED, RIGHT. 01:33:15.323 --> 01:33:16.424 THE RED LIGHT CRISIS 01:33:16.490 --> 01:33:19.894 THAT I THINK CLEVELAND HAVE HAS, HAS OUTLINED. 01:33:20.761 --> 01:33:21.696 SO THANK YOU. 01:33:21.762 --> 01:33:22.029 ALL RIGHT. 01:33:22.096 --> 01:33:24.365 WELL, THANK YOU SO MUCH TO TO OUR TO OUR PANEL. 01:33:24.432 --> 01:33:26.267 EXTREMELY ENLIGHTENING. 01:33:26.334 --> 01:33:29.270 VERY MUCH APPRECIATED AND VERY, VERY PRACTICAL AND ACTIONABLE 01:33:29.337 --> 01:33:30.771 AND APPRECIATE ALL YOUR WORK, 01:33:30.838 --> 01:33:32.306 BOTH FOR OUR HEARING TODAY, BUT ALSO THE WORK YOU'RE 01:33:32.373 --> 01:33:34.675 DOING EVERY DAY TO TACKLE THIS AND MANY OTHER 01:33:34.742 --> 01:33:35.977 OVERLAPPING CRISES. 01:33:36.043 --> 01:33:38.479 WE'RE NOW GOING TO TURN TO PUBLIC COMMENT. 01:33:38.546 --> 01:33:42.049 IF WE HAVE ANY, WE'D INVITE ANY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC 01:33:42.316 --> 01:33:44.385 TO COME FORWARD, MAYBE LINE UP AT THE CENTER, 01:33:44.452 --> 01:33:47.922 AND THEN WE'LL BE TAKING PUBLIC COMMENT AT THE AT THE PODIUM 01:33:48.222 --> 01:33:51.792 HERE, WHERE WE FIRST SAW THE DEAN OF THE LAW SCHOOL. 01:33:53.260 --> 01:33:56.263 WELCOME. 01:33:56.630 --> 01:33:56.998 THANK YOU. 01:33:57.064 --> 01:33:59.300 GOOD AFTERNOON. NOEL KRAMER'S WITH WINE INSTITUTE. 01:33:59.367 --> 01:34:01.969 WINE INSTITUTE REPRESENTS CALIFORNIA WINERIES. 01:34:02.036 --> 01:34:05.373 REALLY APPRECIATE YOU HOLDING THIS 01:34:05.439 --> 01:34:09.410 HEARING THIS AFTERNOON TO DELVE DEEPLY INTO THE IMPACTS 01:34:09.477 --> 01:34:12.480 OF THE GLASSY WING SHARPSHOOTER AND WHAT CAN BE DONE TO HELP, 01:34:14.181 --> 01:34:17.251 CALIFORNIA WINERIES, AS WE ALL KNOW, ARE CHALLENGED RIGHT NOW. 01:34:17.318 --> 01:34:20.554 AND THIS IS AN ADDED CHALLENGE THAT THEY DON'T NEED TO FACE. 01:34:22.323 --> 01:34:24.692 I WANT TO EXPRESS APPRECIATION FOR THE RECOGNITION 01:34:24.759 --> 01:34:26.694 BY THE MAJORITY LEADER THAT THERE IS A NEED 01:34:26.761 --> 01:34:30.031 TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL FUNDING AND TO HAVE THOSE CONVERSATIONS 01:34:30.097 --> 01:34:34.368 NEXT YEAR TO HELP ADDRESS THIS ISSUE AND RESPOND TO THE, 01:34:35.136 --> 01:34:36.637 INCREASING NUMBER OF REGULATIONS 01:34:36.704 --> 01:34:39.106 THAT WE'RE GOING TO NEED TO UNDERTAKE. 01:34:39.173 --> 01:34:42.176 SO I ALSO WANTED TO FOLLOW UP ON A POINT, 01:34:42.510 --> 01:34:45.446 THAT WAS RAISED EARLIER ABOUT THE RESEARCH NEEDED. 01:34:45.513 --> 01:34:49.083 AND IF THERE'S OPPORTUNITIES FOR USING NEW TECHNOLOGIES 01:34:49.750 --> 01:34:50.651 TO ADDRESS, 01:34:50.718 --> 01:34:53.754 GLASSY WING SHARPSHOOTER AND PIERCE'S DISEASE AND 01:34:53.821 --> 01:34:57.358 THE PIERCE'S DISEASE, GLASSY WING SHARPSHOOTER BOARD AT CAFE, 01:34:57.425 --> 01:35:00.561 WHICH IS FUNDED IN PART BY INDUSTRY, MR. 01:35:00.628 --> 01:35:04.065 MILLER MENTIONED OVER $90 MILLION SINCE ITS INCEPTION 01:35:04.298 --> 01:35:07.735 OF INDUSTRY DOLLARS, BUT WITHOUT STATE FUNDING THAT 01:35:07.802 --> 01:35:09.470 LIMITS WHAT'S AVAILABLE FOR RESEARCH. 01:35:09.537 --> 01:35:11.906 AND THEN, WITH THE GLASSY WING SHARPSHOOTER, 01:35:12.840 --> 01:35:15.376 IMPACT, WE'VE HAD INDUSTRY FUNDING 01:35:15.443 --> 01:35:18.512 THAT'S HAD TO GO TO FUND THAT, WHICH TAKES AWAY FROM RESEARCH. 01:35:18.579 --> 01:35:20.714 SO WE'RE JUST, 01:35:20.781 --> 01:35:24.652 WITH WITH THE LIMITED RESOURCES WE HAVE AVAILABLE, WE'RE NOT 01:35:24.952 --> 01:35:28.289 ABLE TO ADDRESS THE CONCERN THAT IS PRESENT TODAY. 01:35:30.825 --> 01:35:31.892 THERE'S ALSO 01:35:31.959 --> 01:35:34.962 A NEED, AS WAS MENTIONED BEFORE, ABOUT A, 01:35:35.563 --> 01:35:38.399 HAVING A BROADER DISCUSSION ABOUT INVASIVE SPECIES 01:35:38.466 --> 01:35:41.469 AND THE METHODS FOR PREVENTING THEIR INTRODUCTION. 01:35:42.369 --> 01:35:46.107 BECAUSE EVERYONE WINS WHEN WE PREVENT PESTS 01:35:46.173 --> 01:35:47.975 AND DISEASES FROM BEING INTRODUCED 01:35:48.042 --> 01:35:50.344 BECAUSE THAT MEANS WE DON'T HAVE TO SPRAY 01:35:50.411 --> 01:35:53.214 ADDITIONAL, PESTICIDES TO TREAT THOSE NEW PESTS. 01:35:53.280 --> 01:35:57.017 AND AS WE ALL KNOW, CALIFORNIA IS A LEADER IN SUSTAINABILITY 01:35:57.284 --> 01:36:00.387 AND NEW PESTS AND DISEASES MAKE IT EVEN MORE DIFFICULT 01:36:00.454 --> 01:36:01.622 FOR GRAPE GROWERS 01:36:01.689 --> 01:36:03.724 TRYING TO GROW THEIR GRAPES SUSTAINABLY 01:36:03.791 --> 01:36:05.826 AND MAINTAIN THEIR CERTIFICATION. 01:36:05.893 --> 01:36:09.396 SO THERE ARE A WHOLE HOST OF REASONS WHY WE SHOULD HAVE 01:36:09.463 --> 01:36:11.832 THE BIGGER CONVERSATION ONE ABOUT FUNDING, 01:36:11.899 --> 01:36:14.635 BUT TWO ABOUT, MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE IMPROVING OUR METHODS 01:36:14.702 --> 01:36:16.036 FOR KEEPING, 01:36:16.103 --> 01:36:18.239 PESTS, NEW PESTS AND DISEASES OUT 01:36:18.305 --> 01:36:21.342 AND HOW WE HANDLE AND RESPOND TO THEM WHEN THEY ARE PRESENT. 01:36:21.408 --> 01:36:23.210 SO THANK YOU AGAIN 01:36:23.277 --> 01:36:24.311 FOR HOLDING THIS HEARING TODAY, 01:36:24.378 --> 01:36:26.514 AND I LOOK FORWARD TO CONTINUED DISCUSSIONS. 01:36:26.580 --> 01:36:27.214 ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. 01:36:34.221 --> 01:36:35.856 WELCOME. 01:36:35.923 --> 01:36:37.224 THANK YOU. 01:36:37.291 --> 01:36:37.892 GOOD AFTERNOON. 01:36:37.958 --> 01:36:38.926 I'M TRICIA GEHRINGER 01:36:38.993 --> 01:36:42.329 WITH AGRICULTURAL COUNCIL OF CALIFORNIA AND THE CALIFORNIA 01:36:42.563 --> 01:36:45.099 CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF NURSERIES. 01:36:45.166 --> 01:36:47.334 THANK YOU VERY MUCH TO THE CHAIR AND THE MAJORITY LEADER 01:36:47.401 --> 01:36:50.704 FOR THIS HEARING TODAY, AND APPRECIATE ALL THE COMMENTS 01:36:50.771 --> 01:36:51.939 MADE. 01:36:52.006 --> 01:36:54.575 I COUNCIL REPRESENTS VINEYARD ALMONDS, 01:36:54.642 --> 01:36:58.279 PISTACHIOS, PEACHES, TOMATOES, CITRUS AND MORE. 01:36:58.345 --> 01:37:02.049 AND MY OWN FAMILY, GROWS WINE GRAPES AND RAISINS. 01:37:02.116 --> 01:37:04.585 MY MOM AND MY BROTHER IN THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY. 01:37:04.652 --> 01:37:07.388 SO THIS IS INCREDIBLY, PERSONAL ISSUE 01:37:07.454 --> 01:37:10.691 AND VERY IMPORTANT, STATEWIDE ISSUE, OF COURSE. 01:37:11.358 --> 01:37:12.760 THANKS TO, 01:37:12.826 --> 01:37:14.061 THE CHAIR AND THE MAJORITY LEADER 01:37:14.128 --> 01:37:17.798 FOR THE 10 MILLION IN THE FUND, AND FOR THE RECOGNITION 01:37:17.865 --> 01:37:18.699 ALL THROUGHOUT 01:37:18.766 --> 01:37:22.536 THE SUMMER TO PUSH FOR FUNDING, WE GREATLY APPRECIATE THAT. 01:37:22.870 --> 01:37:25.706 I AM HERE TODAY TO SPEAK, 01:37:25.773 --> 01:37:27.474 ON BEHALF OF OUR MEMBERS FROM THE CALIFORNIA 01:37:27.541 --> 01:37:29.677 ASSOCIATION OF NURSERIES. 01:37:29.743 --> 01:37:33.547 AS HAS BEEN SAID, THEY'RE VERY MUCH ON THE FRONT LINES, AS 01:37:35.049 --> 01:37:38.152 OTHERS HAVE EXPRESSED, AND THEY'RE NOT JUST 01:37:38.219 --> 01:37:41.322 ON THE FRONT LINES OF QUEST, BUT ALSO MANY OTHER PESTS. 01:37:42.022 --> 01:37:45.926 FOR MANY OF THESE FAMILY OWNED NURSERIES THAT WE REPRESENT, 01:37:46.360 --> 01:37:49.463 THEY FEEL THAT THEY'RE IN CRISIS NOW, 01:37:50.231 --> 01:37:51.065 THAT THEY ARE WORKING 01:37:51.131 --> 01:37:54.602 AROUND THE CLOCK TO ADDRESS WAYS TO CONTROL THIS 01:37:54.902 --> 01:37:57.871 AND BE SO MUCH PART OF THE SOLUTION. 01:37:58.739 --> 01:38:01.875 BUT THEY ARE, IN SOME CASES, AS FAMILY OWNED BUSINESSES, 01:38:01.942 --> 01:38:05.145 SPENDING SIX FIGURES OF THEIR OWN FUNDING IN ORDER 01:38:05.212 --> 01:38:10.317 TO FIGHT THIS REALLY, CRITICAL, EMERGENCY SITUATION. 01:38:10.684 --> 01:38:14.455 WE ARE WORKING ALONGSIDE OUR FRIENDS AT THE CALIFORNIA 01:38:14.521 --> 01:38:16.957 ASSOCIATION OF WINE GRAPE GROWERS AND OTHERS IN 01:38:17.024 --> 01:38:21.161 AGRICULTURE TO SUPPORT THE 26.8 MILLION, AS MENTIONED BY MR. 01:38:21.228 --> 01:38:22.263 MILLER. 01:38:22.329 --> 01:38:23.063 AND WE, 01:38:23.130 --> 01:38:24.565 OF COURSE, ARE IN REGULAR COMMUNICATION 01:38:24.632 --> 01:38:28.235 WITH MULTIPLE AG COMMISSIONERS AND, WORKING WITH CDPH 01:38:28.302 --> 01:38:31.639 OFFICIALS ON A BETTER STRATEGY GOING FORWARD. 01:38:32.373 --> 01:38:35.943 JUST, TO HAVE BETTER COORDINATION IN THE FUTURE. 01:38:36.410 --> 01:38:38.145 OUR MEMBERS ARE ABSOLUTELY COMMITTED 01:38:38.212 --> 01:38:39.980 TO DEVELOPING A STRONGER FRAMEWORK. 01:38:40.047 --> 01:38:41.181 I KNOW THE COMMISSIONER MENTIONED 01:38:41.248 --> 01:38:44.685 THAT AND TOWARD MOVING, MOVING TOWARD 01:38:44.985 --> 01:38:46.520 MORE MEANINGFUL IMPROVEMENTS 01:38:46.587 --> 01:38:50.057 TO THE WEST AND PIERCE'S PROGRAMS TO BE MORE EFFECTIVE 01:38:50.424 --> 01:38:52.593 AND TO COLLABORATE ON ADDITIONAL STATE 01:38:52.660 --> 01:38:54.895 FUNDING AND BETTER PATHWAYS, AS THE CHAIR 01:38:54.962 --> 01:38:57.898 MENTIONED, AND MORE OPPORTUNITIES AS A SECTOR. 01:38:57.965 --> 01:38:59.933 THAT'S ONE OF THOSE FRONT LINES OF DEFENSE. 01:39:00.000 --> 01:39:01.669 WE KNOW THAT THAT'S CRUCIAL. 01:39:01.735 --> 01:39:04.338 SO APPRECIATE THE TIME AND THANKS FOR THE HEARING TODAY. 01:39:04.405 --> 01:39:06.006 LOOK FORWARD TO CONTINUING TO WORK WITH YOU. 01:39:08.876 --> 01:39:11.879 THANK YOU. 01:39:18.485 --> 01:39:19.586 AND RIGHT, 01:39:19.653 --> 01:39:22.089 WE'RE GOING TO WE'RE GOING TO GO BACK TO OUR LAST HEARING. 01:39:22.156 --> 01:39:25.659 AND NOW THAT'S RIGHT TRACK ONE OF OUR THE OLDIES BUT GOODIES. 01:39:25.726 --> 01:39:27.761 YES THAT'S RIGHT, THAT'S RIGHT. 01:39:27.828 --> 01:39:30.331 I DID HAVE THE PLEASURE OF, PRESENTING TO THE BOARD, 01:39:30.397 --> 01:39:33.300 IN NAPA THE LAST THE LAST MEETING. 01:39:33.367 --> 01:39:35.469 BUT SINCE YOU'RE HERE TODAY AT UC DAVIS 01:39:35.536 --> 01:39:38.539 AND OUR NAME HAS COME UP, MANY TIMES THROUGHOUT, 01:39:38.772 --> 01:39:40.874 OBVIOUSLY, THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE 01:39:40.941 --> 01:39:43.944 AND EXCITED TO HEAR THE CONVERSATION TODAY. 01:39:44.011 --> 01:39:46.413 YOU TALKED ABOUT MOONSHOTS, 01:39:46.480 --> 01:39:49.016 AND, AND THOSE IN THESE POSSIBILITIES. 01:39:49.083 --> 01:39:53.253 AND I WOULD JUST LIKE TO, TO RAISE, YOU KNOW, THE 01:39:53.787 --> 01:39:56.457 THE POINT THAT I THINK ONE OF OUR GREATEST PLACES 01:39:56.523 --> 01:39:58.559 TO INVEST IS IN OUR UNIVERSITY SYSTEMS. 01:39:58.625 --> 01:40:00.260 THIS IS WHERE THESE 01:40:00.327 --> 01:40:03.364 CHANGING TECHNOLOGIES HAVE HAVE COME FROM. 01:40:03.430 --> 01:40:04.665 AND IF WE'RE THINKING ABOUT 01:40:04.732 --> 01:40:06.834 APPLYING THINGS LIKE CRISPR, I CAN TELL YOU 01:40:06.900 --> 01:40:09.903 WE HAVE FACULTY HERE AT UC DAVIS THAT ARE READY TO DO THAT 01:40:10.237 --> 01:40:13.073 WITH NO FUNDING TO BE ABLE TO DO IT. 01:40:13.140 --> 01:40:16.610 SO ALL OF THESE ISSUES THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT TODAY, 01:40:17.177 --> 01:40:20.614 ARE KIND OF, ENCAPSULATED IN THAT OUR CSU SYSTEM, 01:40:20.681 --> 01:40:21.515 OUR UC SYSTEM, 01:40:21.582 --> 01:40:24.585 JUST AMAZING ENTITIES TO BE ABLE TO TACKLE THESE PROBLEMS. 01:40:24.885 --> 01:40:26.687 NOT ONLY DO WE GENERATE NEW KNOWLEDGE, 01:40:26.754 --> 01:40:28.122 WE GENERATE THE PEOPLE WHO THEN 01:40:28.188 --> 01:40:30.391 GO OUT INTO THAT INDUSTRY AND LEAD THAT INDUSTRY 01:40:30.457 --> 01:40:32.126 AND OUR PROBLEM SOLVERS AND THE INDUSTRY. 01:40:32.192 --> 01:40:33.360 CINDY'S 01:40:33.427 --> 01:40:36.497 EXAMPLE OF THAT, WE MENTIONED ANOTHER ALUM OF THE PROGRAM. 01:40:37.798 --> 01:40:41.435 SO IF THERE IS A MOONSHOT, I THINK IT'S GOING TO COME, 01:40:41.502 --> 01:40:44.538 YOU KNOW, FROM A PLACE LIKE A, YOU SEE, THAT DOES THAT, 01:40:45.606 --> 01:40:48.976 WHAT WE'VE SEEN INSTEAD IN THE RECENT PAST, CERTAIN PROGRESS 01:40:49.042 --> 01:40:51.612 BOARD HAS BEEN MENTIONED MANY TIMES TODAY. 01:40:51.678 --> 01:40:54.681 TO NOTE THAT THAT BOARD NOW FUNDS, 01:40:55.082 --> 01:40:57.751 RESEARCH ON SEVEN DIFFERENT PESTS AND DISEASES. 01:40:57.818 --> 01:40:59.620 IT'S NOT JUST PIERCE'S DISEASE. 01:40:59.686 --> 01:40:59.987 AND THAT'S 01:41:00.053 --> 01:41:02.055 BECAUSE ALL OF THESE DISEASES ARE EMERGING 01:41:02.122 --> 01:41:04.224 AND THERE'S NO MONEY ELSEWHERE TO DO IT. 01:41:04.291 --> 01:41:07.895 SO PD IS TAKING IT UPON ITSELF TO TACKLE RED BLOTCH, 01:41:08.662 --> 01:41:10.030 AND MEALY BUG. 01:41:10.097 --> 01:41:13.534 I CAN TELL YOU, IN CONVERSATIONS WITH PEOPLE WHO HAVE GONE 01:41:13.600 --> 01:41:16.970 THROUGH THAT PROCESS OF APPLYING THEIR, THEIR, THEIR 01:41:18.038 --> 01:41:20.274 PRESENTED WITH THE DIFFICULT TASK OF DECIDING 01:41:20.340 --> 01:41:23.343 WHERE THEIR LIMITED BUDGET IS GOING. AND, 01:41:23.844 --> 01:41:25.646 WHAT HAS HAPPENED IN MOST RECENT YEARS 01:41:25.712 --> 01:41:28.615 AS THEY DECIDE TO FUND ONE GRANT ON EACH DISEASE. 01:41:28.682 --> 01:41:31.985 AND AND THAT MEANS ONLY ONE PROJECT IS GETTING FUNDED OUT OF 01:41:32.586 --> 01:41:35.622 MAYBE TENS THAT ARE BEING BEING ASKED FOR. SO, 01:41:36.924 --> 01:41:37.191 AGAIN, 01:41:37.257 --> 01:41:40.260 JUST ECHOING THAT, YOU KNOW, WE ARE HERE AT UC DAVIS. 01:41:40.327 --> 01:41:42.863 WE HAVE A LONG HISTORY WITH THIS INDUSTRY. 01:41:42.930 --> 01:41:44.364 WE'RE VERY PROUD OF THAT HISTORY. 01:41:44.431 --> 01:41:46.099 AND WE'RE READY TO HELP. 01:41:46.166 --> 01:41:49.703 AND IF THERE ARE, INVESTMENTS IN THOSE MOONSHOTS, WILL 01:41:49.770 --> 01:41:53.173 GLADLY TAKE ON THAT CHALLENGE, IF PROVIDED THE OPPORTUNITY. 01:41:53.240 --> 01:41:55.008 SO THANK YOU. 01:41:55.075 --> 01:41:58.078 THANK YOU. 01:42:00.547 --> 01:42:01.515 OR WHEN IT LOOKS LIKE 01:42:01.582 --> 01:42:04.585 WE HAVE ONE FINAL PUBLIC COMMENT. 01:42:06.053 --> 01:42:08.322 SENATOR COBALT AND 01:42:08.388 --> 01:42:10.424 NIEDEREGGER CURRY, CHRISTOPHER REARDON, CALIFORNIA FARM BUREAU, 01:42:10.491 --> 01:42:12.559 AND I WANTED TO THANK YOU FOR THIS HEARING TODAY. 01:42:12.626 --> 01:42:15.395 I THINK THE ONE ALARM BELL, NOT ONLY BESIDES THIS ISSUE 01:42:15.462 --> 01:42:18.499 THAT SORT OF GOES OFF IN OUR HEAD IS TWO YEARS AGO, 01:42:18.565 --> 01:42:21.635 WE WERE DEALING WITH THE OREGON FRUIT FLY IN THE INLAND EMPIRE. 01:42:22.569 --> 01:42:24.204 YOU KNOW, SOME YEARS AGO WE WERE DEALING, 01:42:24.271 --> 01:42:25.606 I THINK, BEFORE BOTH OF YOU GOT HERE. 01:42:25.672 --> 01:42:28.141 WE'RE DEALING WITH THE LIGHT BROWN APPLE MOTH ISSUE, 01:42:28.208 --> 01:42:29.343 PARTICULARLY IN THE BAY AREA. 01:42:31.111 --> 01:42:31.945 OUR FEAR IS WHAT IF WE 01:42:32.012 --> 01:42:35.048 HAVE A COUPLE OF THINGS GOING ON SIMULTANEOUSLY HERE? 01:42:35.115 --> 01:42:36.250 WHAT DO WE DO? 01:42:36.316 --> 01:42:39.453 I, I APPRECIATE YOUR, DISCUSSION ABOUT ONE TIME MONEYS, 01:42:39.520 --> 01:42:42.523 BUT, BOY, WHAT IF WE HAVE, YOU KNOW, NUMEROUS, 01:42:43.991 --> 01:42:45.259 INFESTATIONS THAT WE'RE DEALING WITH. 01:42:45.325 --> 01:42:47.461 THAT'S WHAT CONCERNS US. 01:42:47.528 --> 01:42:49.963 AND WE'VE ARE VERY CONCERNED ABOUT, YOU KNOW, 01:42:50.030 --> 01:42:52.966 WHAT WE'VE DONE FOR THE LAST 15 YEARS, BUT I'M NOT SURE 01:42:53.033 --> 01:42:54.635 WE CAN JUST DEPEND ON THAT ONE TIME MONEY. 01:42:54.701 --> 01:42:56.670 SO I THINK IT'S A GREAT IDEA, 01:42:56.737 --> 01:42:58.605 BUT SEEMS TO ME WE HAVE TO INVEST, 01:42:58.672 --> 01:42:59.840 YOU KNOW, SERIOUS MONIES 01:42:59.907 --> 01:43:03.010 AS WE LOOK DOWN THE FUTURE, JUST NOT ONLY ON ONE ISSUE AND, 01:43:03.076 --> 01:43:06.079 ONE INFESTATION, BUT NUMEROUS INFESTATIONS AT THE SAME TIME, 01:43:06.647 --> 01:43:08.515 PARTICULARLY WITH THE TRANSPORTATION 01:43:08.582 --> 01:43:10.517 CHALLENGES WITH RAIL AND 01:43:10.584 --> 01:43:13.387 AND TRUCKS AND, AND WEATHER STATION CHALLENGES, ETC.. 01:43:13.453 --> 01:43:15.055 SO THAT WAS THAT'S THE ONE THING I WOULD 01:43:16.523 --> 01:43:17.424 INDICATE IS THAT 01:43:17.491 --> 01:43:20.460 I THINK WE BETTER BE PREPARED FOR MORE THAN JUST ONE. 01:43:20.861 --> 01:43:21.995 THANK YOU. 01:43:22.062 --> 01:43:24.031 YEAH. THANK YOU. AGREED. 01:43:24.097 --> 01:43:28.702 SO THE, YOU KNOW, WE'RE WE, TRY TO FUND MOONSHOTS FOR CANCER, 01:43:28.769 --> 01:43:32.172 BUT WE STILL WORK ON THE ANNUAL FLU VACCINE, SO IT'S NOT. 01:43:32.239 --> 01:43:34.374 IT'S NOT. THEY'RE NOT ONE OR THE OTHER. 01:43:34.441 --> 01:43:36.143 THEY'RE TACKLING, YOU KNOW, DIFFERENT 01:43:36.209 --> 01:43:38.211 DIMENSIONS OF THE SAME. THE SAME PROBLEM, THAT ONE. 01:43:38.278 --> 01:43:42.583 SO I APPRECIATE, THE, THE PANEL, ALL THE PUBLIC COMMENT 01:43:42.649 --> 01:43:45.419 THAT WE'VE HEARD TODAY, IT'S BEEN EXTREMELY INSTRUCTIVE. 01:43:45.485 --> 01:43:49.456 AND, YOU KNOW, JUST TO RETURN TO THE VERY BEGINNING OF THE 01:43:49.523 --> 01:43:51.525 OF OUR CONVERSATION IN THE MAJORITY LEADER, THIS 01:43:51.592 --> 01:43:54.561 MAJORITY LEADER, AT THIS POINT AT THE OUTSET, AS WELL, 01:43:54.628 --> 01:43:56.930 THAT THE, YOU KNOW, EVEN EVEN THE SCALE 01:43:56.997 --> 01:44:00.601 OF SOME OF THESE INVESTMENTS, BOTH LONG ONE TIME AND ONGOING, 01:44:01.702 --> 01:44:02.336 COMPARED 01:44:02.402 --> 01:44:07.674 TO THE TOTAL VALUE OF THESE CROPS AND ALL OF THE 01:44:08.041 --> 01:44:10.043 OF THE JOBS AND THE TOWNS 01:44:10.110 --> 01:44:11.979 AND THE COMMUNITIES THAT DEPEND ON THEM, 01:44:12.045 --> 01:44:13.914 IT REALLY DOES PALE IN COMPARISON. 01:44:13.981 --> 01:44:15.549 AND IT'S WHY WE'VE BEEN ADVOCATING 01:44:15.616 --> 01:44:19.720 SO STRONGLY TO TRY TO, TO TO MAKE THOSE THE NECESSARY 01:44:19.786 --> 01:44:23.323 BASELINE INVESTMENTS FOR EXACTLY THE KINDS OF, OF, 01:44:23.790 --> 01:44:25.292 OF INITIATIVES AND JUST ONGOING WORK 01:44:25.359 --> 01:44:27.594 FOR DETECTION, FOR INTERVENTION, FOR, FOR PREVENTION 01:44:27.661 --> 01:44:29.229 AND EVERYTHING ELSE THAT HAS BEEN DESCRIBED TODAY. 01:44:29.296 --> 01:44:32.299 SO I THINK THE CASE HAS BEEN MADE VERY CLEARLY, 01:44:32.566 --> 01:44:33.834 ONCE AGAIN ON THAT. 01:44:33.900 --> 01:44:35.902 AND I KNOW WE WILL BE TAKING THIS BACK, 01:44:35.969 --> 01:44:36.236 AS WELL 01:44:36.303 --> 01:44:37.604 AS ARE THE MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE WHO ARE 01:44:37.671 --> 01:44:40.173 WHO WILL BE WATCHING THE TAPE OF TODAY, 01:44:40.240 --> 01:44:42.976 BACK TO THE CAPITOL TO TO RENEW THE BATTLE. 01:44:43.043 --> 01:44:44.277 I KNOW SEVERAL 01:44:44.344 --> 01:44:46.680 SEVERAL OF YOU WILL BE WITH US IN MAKING SURE THAT WE TRY 01:44:46.747 --> 01:44:49.816 TO GET THOSE THOSE RESOURCES, BUT ALSO GET THE ATTENTION 01:44:49.883 --> 01:44:51.685 AND THE FOCUS THAT THESE ISSUES 01:44:51.752 --> 01:44:54.187 AND AND THE VERY REAL THREATS POSED. 01:44:54.254 --> 01:44:55.255 THIS IS HAPPENS 01:44:55.322 --> 01:44:58.392 TO BE THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE JUDGMENT OF PARIS, 01:44:59.259 --> 01:45:02.329 WHICH WAS THE MOMENT WHEN WHEN CALIFORNIA, 01:45:03.363 --> 01:45:04.031 SHOCKED THE 01:45:04.097 --> 01:45:07.801 WORLD WITH, WITH THE THE QUALITY, THE EXCITEMENT, 01:45:07.868 --> 01:45:11.071 THE INNOVATION OF CALIFORNIA'S WINE IN THE FIRST PLACE. 01:45:11.672 --> 01:45:15.208 AND IT'S A REMINDER THAT, ON OUR, OUR POSITION 01:45:15.275 --> 01:45:20.347 IN THE WORLD OF WINE IS AS, AS AS MUCH A VIBE AS ANYTHING 01:45:21.148 --> 01:45:23.483 OR THE WINE, LIKE MANY OTHER IS ONE 01:45:23.550 --> 01:45:26.453 IS JUST ONE OF THOSE PRODUCTS, ONE OF THOSE CROPS, 01:45:26.520 --> 01:45:27.354 ONE OF THOSE THINGS 01:45:27.421 --> 01:45:30.390 THAT IS AS MUCH ABOUT THE FEELING AND THE VIBE 01:45:30.457 --> 01:45:33.460 AS IT IS ABOUT THE CHEMISTRY. 01:45:33.994 --> 01:45:35.595 AND IT IS WHY. 01:45:35.662 --> 01:45:38.165 ONE, IT IS ONE OF THE REASONS WHY IT'S ABSOLUTELY CRITICAL 01:45:38.231 --> 01:45:42.102 THAT WE THAT WE PROTECT THE REPUTATION OF CALIFORNIA 01:45:42.169 --> 01:45:45.405 WINE GRAPES AND CALIFORNIA'S WINE INDUSTRY AS WELL. 01:45:45.472 --> 01:45:46.773 AND WE'VE SEEN OTHER PLACES 01:45:46.840 --> 01:45:48.909 IN THE WORLD THAT HAVE NOT RECOVERED, 01:45:48.975 --> 01:45:50.644 FROM IT, FROM INVASIVE SPECIES, 01:45:50.711 --> 01:45:51.678 BOTH BECAUSE OF ITS 01:45:51.745 --> 01:45:55.382 IMPACT ON PRODUCTION, BUT ALSO BECAUSE IT AFFECTED THE 01:45:55.615 --> 01:45:57.684 THE GLOBAL REPUTATION OF THOSE PLACES. 01:45:57.751 --> 01:45:59.853 AND WE'RE NOT GOING TO LET THAT HAPPEN IN CALIFORNIA. 01:45:59.920 --> 01:46:02.155 WE CANNOT, AS HAS BEEN SAID, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, 01:46:02.222 --> 01:46:05.792 ONE OF CALIFORNIA'S MOST SIGNIFICANT, INDUSTRIES. 01:46:06.526 --> 01:46:08.428 JUST IN SHEER ECONOMICS, 01:46:08.495 --> 01:46:10.964 I KNOW FOR BOTH THE MAJORITY LEADER AND ME 01:46:11.031 --> 01:46:13.734 FOR THE COMMUNITIES THAT WE REPRESENTED, IT IS 01:46:13.800 --> 01:46:15.502 IT IS THE ESSENTIAL LIFEBLOOD. 01:46:15.569 --> 01:46:16.403 IT IS THE DEFINING 01:46:16.470 --> 01:46:20.173 CHARACTERISTIC OF SO MANY OF OUR OF OUR COMMUNITIES. 01:46:20.807 --> 01:46:23.677 BUT ALSO FOR CALIFORNIA AS A STATE, 01:46:23.744 --> 01:46:27.414 THE, THE, WINE, IN PARTICULAR IS, 01:46:28.849 --> 01:46:31.885 IN SOME SENSE THE DEFINITION OF CALIFORNIA'S 01:46:31.952 --> 01:46:34.554 CACHET, ITS SUCCESS, ITS CLASS, 01:46:34.621 --> 01:46:38.125 ITS SOPHISTICATION, ITS CREATIVITY, AROUND THE WORLD. 01:46:38.458 --> 01:46:42.763 AND THAT MATTERS IN CALIFORNIA'S SOFT POWER, OUR ECONOMIC POWER 01:46:42.829 --> 01:46:45.932 AND OUR IN OUR IN OUR ABILITY TO CONTINUE LEADING TO LEAD IN 01:46:45.999 --> 01:46:46.833 SO MANY OTHER WAYS. 01:46:46.900 --> 01:46:50.237 AND SO, WE WE WILL REMAIN FOCUSED ON THIS, 01:46:50.737 --> 01:46:52.973 TO BE SURE, IN THE BUDGET, 01:46:53.039 --> 01:46:55.675 LEGISLATIVELY AND IN IN FOLLOWING UP ON TODAY'S 01:46:55.742 --> 01:46:57.944 HEARING, IN ADDITION TO FUTURE HEARINGS OF THIS, 01:46:58.011 --> 01:47:01.915 SELECT COMMITTEE, I ALSO WANT TO INVITE FOLKS TO FOLLOW THIS. 01:47:02.215 --> 01:47:05.685 WE WILL BE, IN THE BUDGET SUBCOMMITTEE THAT OVERSEES 01:47:05.752 --> 01:47:08.755 CDPHE IN THE SENATE SIDE, WHICH I HAPPEN TO SERVE ON, 01:47:09.022 --> 01:47:12.092 WE'LL BE DOING ADDITIONAL FOLLOW UP WORK IN THE SPRING 01:47:12.159 --> 01:47:15.061 AS WE AS WE CONSIDER THE GOVERNOR'S BUDGET PROPOSAL, 01:47:15.128 --> 01:47:17.831 TO ASSURE THAT THE INVESTMENTS THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT TODAY 01:47:17.898 --> 01:47:19.032 ARE FUNDED, 01:47:19.099 --> 01:47:19.866 AND THAT, 01:47:19.933 --> 01:47:22.035 THE APPROPRIATE PRIORITY IS BEING PLACED ON THEM AS WELL. 01:47:22.102 --> 01:47:25.105 SO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR TODAY'S, 01:47:25.572 --> 01:47:27.741 FEEDBACK FOR THE CLARION CALL. 01:47:27.808 --> 01:47:28.308 FOR THE, 01:47:28.375 --> 01:47:31.444 FOR THE, FOR THE RICH AMOUNT OF INFORMATION THAT YOU PROVIDED 01:47:31.511 --> 01:47:34.481 AND THE, AND THE VERY, VERY ACTIONABLE POLICY IDEAS AS WELL. 01:47:34.548 --> 01:47:38.051 LET ME INVITE OUR MAJORITY LEADER, ASSEMBLY MEMBER KERRY, 01:47:38.118 --> 01:47:39.886 TO MAKE ANY FINAL COMMENTS. 01:47:39.953 --> 01:47:42.022 THANK YOU ALL FOR BEING HERE TODAY. 01:47:42.088 --> 01:47:44.124 THE I'D LIKE TO SAY IS THAT, 01:47:44.191 --> 01:47:47.093 WE WILL HAVE A NEW LEGISLATURE PRETTY SOON IN NOVEMBER, 01:47:47.160 --> 01:47:50.130 AND THERE'S A LOT OF NEW FACES THAT WILL NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT 01:47:50.463 --> 01:47:51.865 WHAT WE DO IN AGRICULTURE. 01:47:51.932 --> 01:47:53.500 AND SO I INVITE YOU 01:47:53.567 --> 01:47:56.336 TO GO INTO THEIR OFFICES, SHARE YOUR STORIES, 01:47:56.403 --> 01:47:58.405 TELL THEM WHAT'S IMPORTANT IN CALIFORNIA, 01:47:58.471 --> 01:48:00.674 WHAT'S IMPORTANT IN THE INDUSTRY. 01:48:00.740 --> 01:48:02.142 THEY NEED TO BE EDUCATED. 01:48:02.209 --> 01:48:04.978 THERE'S A LOT THAT HAVE NO IDEA WHAT WE DO 01:48:05.045 --> 01:48:06.279 AND THE IMPORTANCE OF AGRICULTURE 01:48:06.346 --> 01:48:08.682 IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA THROUGHOUT THE STATE. OBVIOUSLY. 01:48:08.748 --> 01:48:11.518 SO I JUST WANT TO ENCOURAGE YOU TO, 01:48:11.585 --> 01:48:12.652 MEET UP WITH OUR AGRICULTURE. 01:48:12.719 --> 01:48:16.089 WE HAVE AN AGRICULTURE COMMITTEE IN BOTH IN BOTH HOUSES, 01:48:16.489 --> 01:48:17.691 AND THEY'LL BE COMMITTEE HEARINGS, 01:48:17.757 --> 01:48:18.925 MAYBE SELECT COMMITTEE HEARINGS. 01:48:18.992 --> 01:48:21.862 SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR COMING TODAY. 01:48:21.928 --> 01:48:23.230 WE DON'T GIVE UP VERY EASILY. 01:48:23.296 --> 01:48:25.232 WE WORK HARD ON TRYING TO MAKE SURE THAT, 01:48:25.298 --> 01:48:27.968 THE ECONOMY IN CALIFORNIA STAYS, THRIVING. 01:48:28.034 --> 01:48:30.237 SO THANK YOU ALL FOR COMING TODAY. 01:48:30.303 --> 01:48:32.138 AND AGAIN, THANKS TO UC DAVIS FOR HOSTING US. 01:48:32.205 --> 01:48:33.874 AND I ALSO WANT TO GIVE PARTICULAR 01:48:33.940 --> 01:48:37.711 THANKS TO, NICOLE CLAIRE NELSON, WHO'S SITTING TO MY, MY LOVE. 01:48:37.777 --> 01:48:39.512 SHE'S BEEN HERE THE WHOLE TIME, BUT SHE'S THE 01:48:39.579 --> 01:48:41.948 THE STAFF THAT SUPPORTS THIS SELECT COMMITTEE. 01:48:42.015 --> 01:48:43.316 AND IT'S BEEN IN CONTACT 01:48:43.383 --> 01:48:45.151 WITH MANY OF THE FOLKS THAT ARE HERE TODAY. 01:48:45.218 --> 01:48:45.852 BUT SHE'S THE EXPERT. 01:48:45.919 --> 01:48:47.654 SHE HELPS TO MAKE SURE THAT THESE HEARINGS 01:48:47.721 --> 01:48:50.724 GET TRANSLATED INTO LEGISLATIVE AND BUDGET ACTION AS WELL. 01:48:50.790 --> 01:48:53.126 SO THANKS TO NICOLE, THANKS TO EACH OF YOU. 01:48:53.193 --> 01:48:53.860 AND WITH THAT, 01:48:53.927 --> 01:48:56.796 THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON CALIFORNIA'S WINE INDUSTRY 01:48:56.863 --> 01:48:57.631 IS ADJOURNED. 01:49:00.600 --> 01:49:02.535 THAT YOU WOULDN'T THINK WAS ACTUALLY.