“It’s gut-wrenching,” explained Almond farmer, Kelli Evans.
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Every year, it's something different with almonds. One year it's too dry, the next year it's too wet, then it's too cold, and it seems like every other year the blooms come early and then the spring winds knock them off.
I don't think, in all the years I lived in the San Joaquin Valley, that I ever saw a perfect year for almonds, yet they keep having these record breaking harvests.
