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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – The bedewed upwind successful the vale is having an interaction connected Fresno County's agriculture industry.
While farmers usually invited the rain, the mid-October tempest whitethorn not person travel astatine the perfect clip for immoderate growers.
"It's been a precise analyzable autumn frankincense far, which truly has made it much hard erstwhile it comes to the drying of things specified arsenic raisins, almonds, and truthful on," Fresno County Farm Bureau CEO Ryan Jacobsen said.
The San Joaquin Valley has already seen a small spot of rainfall this fall, but thing arsenic important arsenic this week's system. It marks the archetypal important rainfall of the caller h2o year, which started Oct. 1. Jacobsen said immoderate farmers whitethorn inactive person crops similar fabric oregon pistachios increasing successful their fields waiting for harvest.
"We've known for astir a week present that it was going to beryllium a precise important event. That truly helps america successful mentation erstwhile it comes clip to effort to get immoderate of these crops retired of the tract arsenic rapidly arsenic possible," helium added.
Still, it's a notably beardown commencement for the season, particularly considering the strategy brought snowfall to the Sierra Nevada, which helps physique the state's snowpack aboriginal on.
"That is the snowpack is what we trust upon for adjacent year. And truthful the information that we are seeing immoderate important amounts up determination of dense snowfall truly helps america to truly footwear disconnected the twelvemonth to a beardown start," Jacobsen said.
Another interest was flooding, which Jacobsen said helium did not perceive reports of happening connected farms successful Fresno County.
