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Agricultural Heartland
The Salinas Valley is one of America's most productive agricultural regions, supplying fresh produce to the nation year-round.
The Salinas Valley extends approximately 90 miles through Monterey County, bordered by the Gabilan and Santa Lucia mountain ranges. The valley is widely known as 'America's Salad Bowl,' recognized for producing the majority of the salad greens consumed in the United States. Crops grown in the region include lettuce, spinach, broccoli, cauliflower, artichokes, strawberries, and tomatoes, with production continuing year-round due to the valley's moderate climate and irrigation systems fed by underground aquifers and mountain reservoirs.
Soledad's economy is deeply rooted in agricultural and food processing. Dole Food Company operates a major pre-cut salad production facility in Soledad that was opened in 1994. The Salinas Valley region also supports wine production, with numerous vineyards in the surrounding area. This agricultural economy provides employment for thousands of workers and their families, making it the economic heartbeat of the region.
When families depend on agricultural and seasonal work, the risk of financial disruption is real and immediate. A life insurance policy sized to your income and the years when dependents rely on that income is how you protect the people you care about from that disruption. It says that the work they do and the family they've built matter enough to plan for.