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California farmers to destroy 420,000 peach trees after Del Monte collapses
(www.independent.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 08 May 2026
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Crazy idea, but instead of ripping out hundreds of thousand of trees using government aid, why doesn’t the government keep the processing plants open using aid? This sounds so very f*cking backwards
I’m gonna assume it would cost to much to keep Del Monte growing. The farmers/suppliers need time to grow new crops to sell since they lost their peach buyer.