Upwards of 30 Weston Ranch High agricultural students along with instructors have secured Manteca Unified board approval for a trip to the Dominican Republic this summer. The trip will allow students to tour coffee and banana plantations as well as get a feel for how the ag export market works. The students will need to raise the $3,500 cost per participant to go on the trip. The state in 2024 had an estimated 413,000 to 420,000 seasonal farm jobs that primarily harvest more than 400 crops grown in California. One key finding in the preliminary assessment was that most international air cargo operations in the U.S. serve imports, with excess capacity currently available for exports.