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Handed and some say the worst is yet to come. nbc s greg bledsoe traveled to the central valley to see the problem firsthand. this was all open farmland, tomatoes, cotton, pistachios, wheat. it s about 130 square miles that are flooded right now. the vastness, the enormity of how much water is down here is wild because it s just water as far as the eye can see. reporter: what you re looking at is close to 100,000 acres of farmland, now sitting under water. the lake at the deepest point is about 17 feet deep. reporter: and getting deeper. the water is still rising, it has been rising about a half inch per day. reporter: for california farmers, it s a situation soaked in irony. it s a blessing and a curse. we have been in three years of drought prior to this, and now ....
The spring season rolled in with a loss at the Azolla Farm in Pleasant Grove as the winter storms ravaged their crops. Scrivner Hoppe-Glosser, who has been a farmer for 12 years, shared photos and videos of his flooded farm, which he says stayed consistently underwater for 20 days. ....
Judy Hirigoyen is VP Global Marketing for American Pistachio Growers. She comments on the critical need for California Farmers to use water to produce valuable nut crops for export. ....
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the main thing is i thought i saw rays of sunshine coming for the supply chain, but omicron just mother those. with manpower shortages, workers are demanding higher wages, especially in trucking. the average cost for a trucker moving goods used to be 3-500 and it is now 700 to $1,000. david harlow is a consultant and los angeles were earlier this week the transportation secretary secretary gave port workers credit for helping save christmas. one of the reasons why crispus was not canceled is that ports like la on long beach moved record levels of goods. terminal bottlenecks have improved but whenever for container ships are waiting for a wrote the alley points. according to a study california farmers lost 2 billion export sales in just five months because of supply chain congestion. experts are down 22% statewide and this. ....