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Calif. farmers to clear 420,000 peach trees after Del Monte bankruptcy

SFGATE·Susana Guerrero·4 months ago
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FILE: Sylvia Lopez, right, prepares diced peaches for packaging into fruit cups at the Del Monte Foods canning facility in Modesto, Calif.  Paul Chinn/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Central California farmers are expected to gain up to $9 million in federal aid to help remove 420,000 clingstone peach trees following the closure of Del Monte Foods’ canneries earlier this year.  Del Monte permanently closed its Modesto and Hughson canneries in April after filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last July . The factory closures left hundreds of workers without a job while also leaving farmers in dire straits as they navigated what to do with their crops. In March, the Sacramento Bee reported that many Central California farmers had their 20-year contracts to grow peaches with Del Monte canceled while facing a $550 million loss in revenue.  Article continues below this ad The impacts pushed a delegation of California lawmakers to ask the U.S.…

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