With the help of Severn Williams Media, the plight of Jacobs Farm became a major news story, with articles appearing in the Santa Cruz Sentinel, Good Times, KSCO Radio and Plenty Magazine. The local community began to rally around this issue, and ultimately a superior court judge ruled in favor of the farm, ordering the pesticide spraying operation to cease its current application procedures until the hearing. The uproar over this issue has prompted the state legislature to begin debating remedies for this problem.