The Business Journal published its list of the region’s top Agricultural Commodities on Nov. 7.

The numbers in the list reflect the combined totals from Fresno, Kings, Madera and Tulare counties—ranked by 2024 value. All the data has been compiled from the annual crop reports of the agricultural commissioners’ offices.

Topping the list of 20 this year is milk, with a $3.9 billion dollar value and a quantity of over 161 million units — each unit representing 100 pounds of milk.

That’s up from $3.6 billion in 2023, and down from 186.5 million units.

Coming in at No. 2 are almonds worth $2.6 billion ($2.08 billion in 2023) and 587,503 harvested acres (606,831 acres in 2023).

The third top agricultural commodity was calves and cattle worth $2.2 billion with a total of 1.1 million heads. The category was ranked No. 3 in 2023, with nearly 1.4 million head worth $1.45 billion.

Pistachios ranked at No. 4 with over $1.7 billion in 2024 dollar value and 387,081 harvested acres. That’s up from No. 5 in 2023 with 1.4 billion value and 362,660 harvested acres.

Table grapes were No. 5 on the list with a 2024 dollar value of $1.4 billion and 52,810 acres. That’s a decline from No. 3 on the 2023 list worth $1.77 billion and 61,417 harvested acres.

Last week, the Fresno County Board of Supervisors received Agricultural Commissioner Melissa Cregan’s 2024 crop and livestock report, which catalogs acreage, production and gross farm receipts.

Fresno County is the No. 1 farm county in the nation, according to the report, its farms selling a record $9.03 billion worth of production in 2024 — up nearly 6% from the previous year.

Kern County was previously the top U.S. ag county in 2023, but its value dropped 8% last year.

For the 2023 crop year, farming contributed $2.66 billion to the county economy, directly supporting 63,103 jobs plus nearly 45,000 more from multiplier effects.

That equates to about 108,034 jobs, or 1 in 9 jobs in all of Fresno County.