Marin County’s agriculture commissioner last week presented his annual crop and livestock report to the Board of Supervisors, flagging a downward trend in the value of cattle, hay, fruit, vegetables and aquaculture but a steady value for milk, which accounted for 45 percent of the total gross value of agriculture in 2016. 

“A farmer might reference this report abstractly, to see trends and to discover any opportunities in a particular market,” agriculture commissioner Stacy Carlsen…