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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The latest vigor question to deed the Central Valley has an interaction connected everyone who works and lives successful it.
Those who look the carnal and fiscal brunt of it are raisin farmers, deed with temperatures implicit 100 degrees successful the premier clip of harvest.
Those similar Steven Cardoza, proprietor of Cardoza & Cardoza Farming Company successful Fresno County, conscionable southbound of Fresno disconnected Highway 41.
"If you don't person the labour unit oregon the clip to get those trays, what we rolled oregon covered up, picked retired of the field, conscionable not successful nonstop sunlight anymore, past they tin implicit dry. And then, you fundamentally suffer immoderate of your fruit, if not a large chunk of your fruit," said Cardoza as helium explained the contention against the vigor successful the process of drying his grapes into raisins.
He tells maine from the vine to the ground, helium and his squad person had to enactment arsenic accelerated arsenic imaginable to guarantee each their grapes are rolled and pulled from the field. All arsenic helium says the vigor question lone cuts their clip abbreviated to bash so.
"Generally, you person greenish grapes sitting connected the crushed for 7 to 10 days. This volition shorten that model rather a bit," helium said.
If the grapes are near retired excessively long, Cardoza says alternatively of turning into raisins, they tin crook into worthless "rock-hard" and "marble-like spheres".
"You person to wage a processing interest to the packing location successful bid to get that out," helium said. "Then, you're going to lose, it's what's called 'shrink'. You're going to suffer immoderate of your tonnage arsenic well. So, it's a treble whammy successful presumption of fiscal consequence," said Cardoza.
He tells maine they person a program successful spot to marque definite that won't hap to them. To get a leap connected the vigor and support their workers, they get started for the time good earlier the prima comes up.
"It's inactive acheronian outside. We person lights connected each of our tractors. Some of the unit adjacent deterioration headlamps truthful they tin spot a small spot better," said Cardoza. "We conscionable shorten our hours. We'll usually beryllium done by 1 o'clock by the latest," helium said, besides telling maine however h2o and shadiness provided to workers are a must.
While helium isn't disquieted astir a damaged harvest for himself, helium said for a smaller cognition with less workers it's a existent possibility, arsenic they navigate yet different vale vigor wave.
