California's richest agricultural family is shuttering a farm the UFW sought to unionize
California's richest agricultural family is shuttering a farm the UFW sought to unionize

www.latimes.com
California's richest agricultural family is shuttering a farm the UFW sought to unionize

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They’re not wrong about the wine industry being in a downturn. I live in “wine country” and large and small vineyards are being abandoned, grapes aren’t selling, they’re just being left on the vines. Vines are being left to die without irrigation. It’s changing the landscape here.
As someone who lives in wine country somewhere not trying to destroy global trade, it looks like wine is booming.
Which wine country is that?
yeah but how much of that is due to tariffs and immigration enforcement and how much of it is due to weather. last season was wet in wine country
edit: i'm a few hundred miles from kern wine country, you might be talking about a different one than napa/sonoma?
I’m taking about Sonoma County specifically, and in my neighborhood there is a 4 acre vineyard that has had to let the grapes go unpicked for the last two years, since they couldn’t find a buyer and a 400 acre EJ Gallo vineyard that is no longer irrigated and the vines are dead. But the problem is state wide:
https://www.winespectator.com/articles/too-many-grapes-in-california
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/wine-industry-uncertainty/3905912/?amp=1
https://www.winespectator.com/articles/jeff-cohn-closes-his-sonoma-winery
https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/wine/article/sonoma-county-wine-business-20798286.php