Farm and port-area yard monitoring in Oxnard, California

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Strawberry fields, the Port of Hueneme and Rice Avenue

Oxnard grows about a third of California's strawberry volume, with the harvest running from mid-December into July, so packing sheds, cold storage and farm equipment yards sit throughout the Oxnard Plain. Procter & Gamble runs a plant in the city with close to 1,900 workers, and the Port of Hueneme, a deep-water harbour serving the stretch of coast between Los Angeles and San Francisco Bay, covers 120 acres with five berths; its 2019 cargo of 1.6 million tons was worth close to $10.9 billion and included more than 3.3 billion bananas. The Rice Avenue interchange with US-101, rebuilt and dedicated as a freight corridor in 2014, carries much of that cargo inland.

Oxnard's own police figures show property crime easing but still landing on local businesses: the department's 2025 crime statistics, released February 25, 2026, counted 330 burglary and breaking-and-entering offences for the year, down 19.3% from 409 in 2024, alongside 2,510 larceny and theft offences. A packing shed or farm equipment yard that empties out at the end of a shift is still an easy target for anyone willing to wait for the lights to go off, whether or not the overall numbers are trending down.

Movement among the parked reefers or farm equipment after hours doesn't go unnoticed: AI person and vehicle detection raises the alert, an agent pulls up the live video to see what's happening, and a live, instant talk-down goes out over the site's speakers before police are called if the person stays. During harvest or in the off-season, Gate Operations has agents match each driver to your pickup list before the gate opens, and Yard Operations records damage inspections and visual seal checks on video as reefers and trailers come and go.

Also covering Port Hueneme, Camarillo, Ventura, El Rio, Saticoy, Silver Strand, Nyeland Acres, Channel Islands Beach.