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CV History: Dates, the Coachella Valley’s Top Agricultural Crop, Were Introduced to the Area 125 Years Ago

The Coachella Valley is sometimes called the Date Capital of the United States, for good reason: More than 90 percent of the United States’ commercial date-farming acreage is in California, and of that, 95 percent is in the Coachella Valley. The date palm has been cultivated by man for thousands of years. Domesticated date palms […]