The California Cotton Ginners and Growers Association hosted Senate District 23 Candidate Suzette Valladares as part of a two-day agricultural tour in partnership with several ag organizations including the Western Agricultural Processors Association, California Fresh Fruit Association, California Citrus Mutual, and California Dairies, Inc.  For our part of the tour, Valladares met with the Cauzza brothers, Jake, Matt and Luc at their Cauzza Growers farming headquarters in Buttonwillow for an issues roundtable discussion.  She learned first-hand how their family farming operation began and how it works today, while learning about many of the challenges our industry faces on lack of pesticide tools, the impact of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA), energy, air quality, and just the everyday trials and tribulations of farming in California today.  The tour is the first of many this year and part of the Association’s efforts to educate the legislature on the critical issues facing our industry.