Top Story: Farmers reeling from freeze | county, crop, percent : Appeal Democrat
"Our work force will be down at least 60 percent because we're harvesting only 40 percent of the crop," said Sarb Johl, who lost all the fruit from up to 200 of his 475 acres of peaches and prunes in Yuba County's District 10.
He predicted he would hire no more than 60 people for this summer's harvest, down from the usual 150.
"The economic loss will be huge; you displace so many people from summer jobs, and there's so many related businesses that will be damaged just as much. It's a domino effect and it goes all the way down to the grocery store," he said.
All told, the predawn frost of April 21 wiped out more than $58 million of crop value in the two counties, according to statements filed by the agriculture departments.
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