Daniel Bays Stanislaus County farmer
It’s sunny and dry. The almonds look pretty good. Bloom is finished on those, and the apricot bloom was a little spotty, but overall, it looks like there will be a potential for a decent crop. We had good weather for the bee flight, so there were lots of hours of bees out in the field working. We’ve had a little bit of wind lately. Most of the pollination was done by then, so what that wind did was just sped up petal fall. We had a cold spell like the rest of the state, and it looks like on most of our fields, there was minimal frost damage. We’ve been doing some groundwork for some of our tomatoes, beans and other row crops. I think this year we’re going to have some tomatoes depending on what water district we’re in, but a lot of our open ground, es- pecially (ground) that is dependent on Central Valley Project water, is going to be fallowed just because of the 0% allotment. We’re using wells in a lot of places already. We’re getting pipelines and pumps and everything serviced and in working order because we’ll be depending on wells throughout the rest of the year. The recycled water that Del Puerto Water District is getting from the city of Modesto and the city of Turlock is a lifesaver this year. It comes out to about 6 inches per acre in the district, which is not enough to grow a crop with, but that’s why we’ll fallow some ground. We have groundwater, but we’ll take that recycled water allotment and use that on fields where we don’t have access to groundwater.
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March 16, 2022 Ag Alert 5
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