As if California needed any more bad news.
After a wave of factory closures that have engulfed the Golden State over the past year…
Unfortunately, more hits just keep coming.
More specifically, California’s food-manufacturing sector absorbed a major blow this year as the Spreckels Sugar Company shut down its large beet-processing plant in Brawley. The company confirmed that the 2025 harvest would be the facility’s last, and operations have now fully ended, leaving hundreds of workers without jobs. The plant had been the last industrial-scale sugar beet processor in the state and a fixture in Imperial County’s agricultural landscape. (So much so that its exit prompted Imperial County to declare a state of economic emergency.)…