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Californian farmland soaked, leaving nowhere to plant tomatoes

Many Californian farm fields are soaking wet.  Asparagus farmers can't get into fields to harvest their produce. Tomato growers have greenhouses bursting with seedlings but it's too wet to transplant them. The planting timeline for lettuce keeps getting moved as fields stay drenched.

This situation is a reversal of last year's drought. California has been hit by an absurd amount of water over the winter, with more than a dozen atmospheric rivers pouring more than 78 trillion gallons of water on the state. Not being able to plant now will cause problems when harvest begins. With the state's tomato growers producing two million pounds of tomatoes a week at the height of harvest, this year that's likely to get backed up.

Source: eu.usatoday.com

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