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Why California peach farmers are removing trees Central California growers were thrown into crisis after Del Monte permanently shuttered its canneries earlier this year, canceling many longtime grower contracts and leaving farmers with no major processing outlet for their clingstone peaches.
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Anthony Thompson, USA Today, 6 May 2026
The California Canning Peach Association pitched the program, including a $3 million match from the association and industry, to the USDA after Del Monte announced the closure of its Modesto cannery in January.
—Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 28 Apr. 2026
His father had been a welder and his mother a cannery worker.
—Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Mar. 2026
After her parents’ divorce, Huerta’s grandfather helped raise her and her two brothers while her mother, Alicia Fernandez, waited tables during the day and pulled nighttime shifts at a cannery.
—Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2026
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Anthony Thompson, USA Today, 6 May 2026
The California Canning Peach Association pitched the program, including a $3 million match from the association and industry, to the USDA after Del Monte announced the closure of its Modesto cannery in January.
—Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 28 Apr. 2026
His father had been a welder and his mother a cannery worker.
—Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Mar. 2026
After her parents’ divorce, Huerta’s grandfather helped raise her and her two brothers while her mother, Alicia Fernandez, waited tables during the day and pulled nighttime shifts at a cannery.
—Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2026
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“Cannery.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cannery. Accessed 17 May. 2026.
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