Grapes drying on the vine and on the ground sat vulnerable to the valley's late summer storm. The raisin industry now reeling from the wet weather that struck towards the end of their season.
"It's definitely not an ideal situation. A lot of people are going to be having a difficult, difficult day," says Steven Cardoza, Cardoza and Cardoza Farming Company.
Steven Cardoza grows organic raisins, now hoping for sun and wind.
"Probably now we're going to have to delay our harvest as well, but what you can get on these bunches that are hanging like this is water on top. You get what's called green mold, which is a very difficult challenge to navigate through," says Cardoza.
Charles Salmon, Chairman of the Raisin Bargaining Association, estimates anywhere between 60-70 thousand tons of grapes were on the ground when the rain hit, this as the 20th of September is a key deadline for insurance.
"Any food that goes on a tray like this had to have been picked by tomorrow, so there's been a big push last week to get a lot of food on the ground unexpectedly, knowing that this storm was coming," says Salmon.
Some growers wrapped their grapes in anticipation of the rain; others had them laying in trays. Each at different stages of the drying process.
"Yesterday morning, it was extremely difficult to find labor to get anything done," says Salmon.
With filled trays ready to be put in bins, the cost of damage is expected to be put on farmers as they have to treat any possible growth of mold or mildew.
"When you have these types of events you see these spikes in humidity, so it helps with the mold and bacteria growth. It helps to accelerate it. So, we hope it dries out quickly so we can save as much as possible out in the fields," says Ryan Jacobsen, Fresno County Farm Bureau.
And there are ways farmers can undo some of that damage, but its going to take time to fully assess what was lost in this storm.
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