While many area residents were grateful for the recent rains in the wake of record-setting drought in California, Manteca-Lathrop strawberry farmers were downcast. The steady rainfall over the weekend resulted in devastating losses for farmers like Sai Saelee and wife Pham Saechao who saw up to 90 percent of their water-logged juicy red crop wasted. “You can see how much we threw away,” said a downcast Sai as he cast a worried look at the spaces between the rows of fruit-bearing strawberries littered with the damaged crop.
SOGGY STRAWBERRIES
Weekends rains nearly wipe out crop
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