(NVR) - Napa County’s 2016 agricultural production reached a record-breaking value of $737.3 million, with a record-breaking $729.5 million value for grapes leading the way.

Those figures are included in the county’s 2016, grape-centric crop report that County Agricultural Commissioner Greg Clark presented to the county Board of Supervisors on Tuesday.

Agricultural production value rose 33 percent from 2015. It broke the old record of $720.8 million set in 2014, with wine grape production breaking the old record of $714.8 million, also set in 2014.

“Last year was an exceptional year,” Clark said in an interview.

Weather overall was conducive to a bountiful wine grape harvest, he said. The county received adequate rain during the 2015-16 rain season and had the right conditions at fruit set and harvest.

Garrett Buckland of Premiere Viticultural Services, who is also president of Napa Valley Grapegrowers, sees a reason why non-grape growers have a stake in the grape prices.

“This tells us we can keep Napa County in agriculture, with values this high,” Buckland said in a phone interview. “That’s an extremely important thing for all of us.”

In recent years, grape growers have seen an increased value in price-per-ton for some of the highest-value grapes, such as cabernet sauvignon, he said.