Southern California is especially dry, with wildfires continuously posing a serious risk for farmers and ranchers. Avocado growers say that they are still recovering from the widespread fires they faced last fall.
“There are about 50,000 acres of avocados in the state of California, and there are about 4,000 acres of avocados that were within the footprint of the mountain fire burn area, and I know, you know, some of those are orchards that were completely destroyed. Some of them it just blew through very quickly as a flash fire and did varying levels of damage. So, they lost a lot of crop for this season, but the trees may bounce back,” according to Chris Sayer, a fifth-generation farmer.
With such varying degrees of damage on nearly 8% of the state’s acreage, Sayer says that the true test of the condition of the trees will come at harvest this summer.
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