ALTHOUGH STRAWBERRIES WERE ONCE AGAIN THE TOP CROP IN SANTA CRUZ COUNTY (BRINGING IN NEARLY 200 MILLION DOLLARS IN 2011), RASPBERRIES ARE COMING RIGHT ALONG (WITH MORE THAN 130 MILLION DOLLARS. RASPBERRY GROWERS PLANTED NEARLY 30 PERCENT MORE ACRES IN RASPBERRIES THAN IN PAST YEARS, AND THEIR YIELDS WERE ALSO UP PER ACRE. THE VALUE OF ALL BERRIES GROWN IN SANTA CRUZ COUNTY INCREASED NEARLY 12 PERCENT, TO ALMOST 566 MILLION DOLLARS.
