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coming year. If this drought should contin- ue, all of agriculture in California is going to be in big trouble. We have wells we’ve been monitoring and have made a number of pump improvements, upgrades and replacements to make sure that we have enough water to support the or- chards and the crops they are producing. With our citrus crops, we had a very heavy bloom and anticipate that we will have an above-normal crop coming into next year. Scorching temperatures could change things, but it looks good current- ly. We are still harvesting navel oranges, Minneola tangelos and lemons, and are starting Valencia oranges. We’re probably going to harvest citrus to July 1. Labor is not so bad where we are. Specific to navels, last year we started putting out pheromone cards to disrupt the mating process for red scale. In addition, we are doing our traditional scale spray, which we are incorporating with fertilizer spray right now. Olives had a heavy bloom. They are al- ternate bearing and this should be an “on” year, so we should have a big olive crop. Obviously, we want to have good sizing and quantity. For olives and citrus, we’ve had com- fortable night temperatures and not scorching temperatures during the day, so that’s good news. For the cattle, our hillsides are pretty dry. We expect to see our foothill ground drying out substantially by the middle of May. Our hay crop is excellent. When native grasses are in short supply, we’ll supplement with hay. Plus, we purchased additional hay just to make sure that we can make it through this season. At this point, we have 75% of our beef cattle herd. We reduced it by about 25%. It sounds like beef sales on the nation- al level are slow right now, and prices have come down. Joe Valente San JoaquinCountywinegrape andal- mond grower On the grape side, back in February, they seem to be push- ing, growing a
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