The Kings County Farm Bureau is passing the hat to raise between $1.5 million and $2 million to take its legal claims against the state Water Resources Control Board to the California Supreme Court.

Lisa McEwen

SJV Water

“We’re not stopping,” farm bureau executive director Dusty Ference told a gathering of about 30 farmers Friday.

“We are arguing that SGMA and this probationary designation has statewide implications so broad that it’s appropriate for the (state) Supreme Court to review this,” he said. “Frankly, we didn’t expect the appellate court to review the steps that they reviewed, so we are hopeful that is an indicator of what the state supreme court might do.”

Ference referred to opinions issued last week by the Fifth District Court of Appeal that both sided with the state by t

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