Drought Felt By California Farmers, Who Fear Worst is Yet to Come
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🗓️ 26 August 2021
⏱️ 55 minutes
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| 0:49.3 | Coming up on forum, nearly half of California is mired in exceptional drought, including vast swaths of the |
| 0:56.5 | Central Valley, which produces roughly 40% of the nation's fruits, vegetables, and nuts. Water |
| 1:03.1 | shortages in the region are having profound effects on growers, who are uprooting crops, letting |
| 1:08.5 | fields lie fallow, or turning their lands into solar farms and other uses, |
| 1:13.3 | we'll hear from farmers about how the drought is affecting them |
| 1:16.3 | and the steps they're taking to contain the damage. |
| 1:19.7 | Join us. This is Forum. I'm Mina Kim. The drought is hitting California agriculture hard this year. Farmers say they're taking unprecedented steps to deal |
| 1:45.5 | with having much less water, with immediate impacts on workers and local communities and broad |
| 1:51.1 | implications for the nation's food supply and prices. Joining us first this hour are two farmers, |
| 1:57.2 | Joe Del Bosque, CEO of Del Bosque Farms in Firebaugh, California. Joe, welcome to Forum. |
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