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got 25, 26 degrees out here. You can only raise it acoupleof degrees. You’reat 28de- grees, and it just starts taking its toll.” Agricultural commissioners have been collecting data to support a potential di- saster declaration. Growers in counties that are declared disaster areas have access to relief programs through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farm Service Agency. Lisa Herbert, Sutter County’s agricul- tural commissioner, said the disaster threshold is 30%damage across the entire county, and this onemay span asmany as five counties. “We know for certain the almonds have issues, but there are preliminary reports that we may be seeing some damage in prunes as well,” Herbert said. “It’s pretty early to tell, but thoseare the things thatwe will be looking atmoving forward.” C o l u s a C o u n t y A g r i c u l t u r a l Commissioner Anastacia Allen said the first step is documenting everything. She and Herbert encouraged farmers with damagereports tocontact theofficeor visit their websites. “As the season progresses, we’ll work along with (University of California Cooperative) Extensionandother experts in the field toconfirmthat, yeah, this is go- ing to be a loss, that they are completely lost at thispoint,”Allensaid. “It’sveryearly, but yes, it looks like the losses are going to be pretty severe.” (Kevin Hecteman i s an ass i stant editor of Ag Alert. He may be contacted at khecteman@cfbf.com.)
down the Central Valley, where tempera- tures reached the low tomid-20s most of Presidents Dayweek. “With each passing day, or with each passing week, you lose frost tolerance,” said Mel Machado, director of member relations at Blue Diamond Growers. “At full bloom, I figure 28’s the magic number; anything 28 (degrees) or be- low at full bloom, I’m going to start to see some damage.” Machado said it’s too soon to know the total crop lossses. “The first clue of what’s going tohang inthe trees isnormallyabout theendofMarch, and the first clueofwhat youmight actuallyget toharvest is theend of April,” he said. KellyEvans, Taylor’swife, saidsheneeds toseewhat the treeswill shedover thenext month. Preliminaryestimatesareshowing awide range—from“faredout prettywell” to “a complete loss” in some orchards. “Is the tree going to drop the stuff that wasburnt, or is it going todropsomeof the goodnuts that are left?Wedon’t knowyet,” Evans said. “We’re in a holding period for the next 30 days to figure out what will be left of the crops.” Glenn County saw its share of damage
Almond farmer Tim Taylor, above, cuts into an almond blossom to check for freeze damage. The nutlet at lower right is still good, but the one at top right is dead.
as well. Mike Vereschagin, who grows almonds near Orland, said bloom came about 10 days earlier than last year. “We had one of the best blooms we’ve had ina long time,”Vereschaginsaid. “The potentialwas for ahugecrop this year, and the frost took all that away here.” Many growers hiredhelicopters inabid towarmup the trees, he added. “Sounded like amilitary zone out there with all the helicopters flying, trying to pushdownthewarmer air fromabove into the orchards,” Vereschagin said.
For that to work, there has to be an in- version layer; Machado said it was light to nonexistent this time. “One guy toldme he had a helicopter at 200 feet before it found anything warm,” Machado said. “That’s useless. You need to have air 30, 40 feet off the canopies to make that work.” When a freeze is in the forecast, farm- ers canusewater to fight off damage—up to a point. “If I know it’s getting cold, I’ll come out here at 10:30 at night, or midnight, or 2 a.m., and we start irrigating,” Taylor said. Water coming out of the ground is 50 to 52 degrees, he added, and can raise the tem- perature in the orchard a degree or two in much the same way hot shower water warms up a bathroom. “If it’s only 30degrees, youcandopretty well,” Taylor said. “But like last week, we
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