Time seems to have flown! How wonderful to have 70 degree mornings and on some nights, turning off the AC and opening the windows and letting all the stale summer air out.

It’s been a crazy late September-early October with all the rain. To some it’s a blessing and others see it as a curse. To the non-farming community, a shower for a day to wash off all the trees and plants, clean the air and make the desert smell wonderful would be a blessing. With our miserly 3 inches per year rainfall, if we are lucky, we long for the cloudy skies.

To the agricultural community, rain can be a curse because it interrupts the delicate balance of land preparation, planting, irrigation, cultivation, fertilization and a dozen other critical operations in the production of the 175 different winter crops th

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