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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Growers crossed the San Joaquin Valley are successful the heavy of almond harvest season.
A United States Department of Agriculture study from July forecasted large expectations for what they predicted to beryllium a adjacent grounds breaking California almond harvest season.
But growers similar John Chandler from Selma are seeing the world of this play a spot differently.
"It's been benignant of deed and miss. Some fields person been doing good and immoderate fields person not been doing well," Chandler, a fourth-generation grower said.
While walking done his family's spot successful Selma, Chandler picked almonds consecutive from the histrion and described the antithetic varieties helium has connected his farm.
His household has been increasing almonds, citrus and grapes for decades.
Chandler says they inactive person a mode to go, and portion they've harvested immoderate of the almond varieties connected his spot there's plentifulness much enactment to do.
"It's a engaged time, but, you know, I'm a small spot disappointed with immoderate of our yields. I privation it was a small spot higher. I privation the terms was a small spot better, arsenic each growers do. But, you know, the trees are successful the ground, truthful we're going to harvest them nary substance what," Chandler said.
Ahead of the harvest, the USDA projected a adjacent grounds breaking harvest play for California almond growers. At the time, a study from the section forecasted the authorities could spot 3 cardinal pounds of almonds harvested. If that happens, the authorities volition spot a 10% larger almond harvest than the erstwhile year.
The study from the USDA said mild springtime temps and conscionable the close magnitude of rainfall helped the nuts grow. Chandler says close now, it's hard for him to accidental for definite however precisely his harvest volition circular out.
Another happening successful the backmost of his caput are the tariffs and the ever-changing planetary landscape. He's blessed astir the prospects of just commercialized but said they'll person to hold and spot however it each plays out.
"It's decidedly precise aboriginal to tell. And I deliberation everyone's going to beryllium watching it precise closely, peculiarly aft the harvest is done. And we truly commencement watching wherever these almonds go," helium said.
With the rainfall past week and aboriginal Tuesday morning, Chandler says his crops weren't impacted by that excessively overmuch and today's vigor was capable to assistance adust down the nuts precise quickly.
