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“Sometimes, it’s these kinds of widespread concerns that open the door for an opportunity to fix the issues that just truly haven’t been dealt with for many decades,” said Ryan Jacobsen, chief executive of the Fresno County Farm Bureau.

Dayna Ghirardelli, the executive director of the Sonoma County Farm Bureau, told Salon that Measure J would be detrimental to all of Sonoma County's farms and the region's food affordability.

“I’m a big believer in true efficiency-based conservation,” said Scott Emanuelli, a fourth-generation farmer and president of the Imperial County Farm Bureau.

While that might seem small, if you do the math “it’s going to be a lot of millions of dollars lost to this pest,” said David Haviland, a Kern County farm advisor with University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources.

When a judge last week temporarily blocked the state’s measures and called the water board’s actions nontransparent, Dusty Ference of the Kings County Farm Bureau said it was a major win for the area’s farmers and California agriculture.