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Shock waves of Modesto Del Monte plant closure hit local fruit farms. Growers to lose $550 million in peaches alone

By this time of year, Richard Lial’s Escalon peach trees – bursting with pink-white blossoms – should have been pruned.  Soon the blooms would need spraying, and he would feed all 105 acres with the water and fertilizer needed for his gorgeous summertime cling peaches. Not this year, though.  None of that is worth doing, […]

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