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Today, Peña López, 32, said he’s paralyzed on the right side of his body and walks with a cane, his vision and hearing are impaired, and he can’t work to support himself or pay for the medical care he needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I want more than anything, I can’t get back: to recover my health, to be with my wife and daughter, and to be able to work again,” he said in a recent phone interview from an aunt’s home in Michoacán, where he lives now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His U.S.-born wife, Aby Peña, who has remained in California with the couple’s now-5-year-old daughter, Emily, said she doesn’t understand how ICE officers could treat another human being as her husband was treated. “It’s just inhumane,” she said. “And it also affects children because they’re being separated, and it’s a damage that is irreversible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a federal civil rights lawsuit filed Monday, his lawyers say the arrest, on Feb. 21, 2025, led to “a cascade of harms,” including lasting trauma for Peña and their daughter, who witnessed it. By law, the complaint said, ICE “bears responsibility for the safety and well-being of individuals” it detains. Yet court records indicate the arrest triggered a heart attack and stroke. And the lawsuit said ICE and private prison contractors failed to get Peña López critical follow-up care, including an urgent neurological workup and physical therapy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit also alleges that staff at both facilities where he was held — Golden State Annex and California City Detention Facility, both in Kern County — denied him disability accommodations, such as glasses and hearing aids, as required by law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit seeks unspecified monetary damages to compensate Peña López and his family and to punish the government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement emailed to KQED, an unnamed Homeland Security spokesperson said ICE arrested Peña López “during targeted operations.” It said “he resisted multiple lawful commands made by ICE officers,” but it didn’t address the lawsuit’s allegations that he was beaten. At the time of the arrest, an ICE spokesman \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028303/ice-arrest-left-bay-area-man-hospitalized-struggling-breathe-attorney-says\">told KQED\u003c/a> the allegation that officers beat Peña López was “absolutely inaccurate.” The ICE statement said, “Any claims of subprime medical care at ICE facilities is FALSE,” and reiterated boilerplate language asserting that the agency provides comprehensive care that “for many illegal aliens … is the best healthcare they have received their entire lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laura Murchie, a member of Peña López’s legal team, disputes that. She said his health worsened in detention because he did not get the medical care he needed.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, however, tandas are becoming more modernized, drawing interest from younger generations of Latinos in the Central Valley. The \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.elfus.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>Education and Leadership Foundation\u003c/u>\u003c/a>, based in Fresno, partnered with \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.missionassetfund.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>Mission Asset Fund\u003c/u>\u003c/a>, a Bay Area nonprofit, more than three years ago to expand access to these traditional lending circles. Both organizations use the model as a way to help communities build savings and access small, no-interest loans through structured, community-based programs. Special Projects Manager at the ELF, Vianey Barraza, explains how tandas work. “You get a group of people, usually between six and 10 individuals, and they decide to lend to each other. They decide on an amount, and usually every week or every two weeks, one person will get the full loan amount, and everybody will be paying in, including the person that receives it,” Barraza said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Traditionally, participants knew each other; they used to have family members, neighbors, friends, and coworkers within the tanda. Trust is essential because a person is less likely to take the money and never return. In the system operated by ELF, participants do not know each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And although this method of saving money is not widely heard of, it also is not totally new; in fact, it is a very old technique. Raúl Hinojosa-Ojeda, a professor of Chicano studies at California State University, Los Angeles, says that the origins go back centuries. “They’re not new,” Hinojosa-Ojeda said. “There’s multi-thousand year old roots of communal labor in Mexico, there’s 1000-year-old roots in Asia of communal work and communal savings and lending.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"routes-Site-routes-Post-Title-__Title__title\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12089337/sunnyvale-man-deported-to-mexico-sues-trump-administration\">\u003cstrong>Sunnyvale man deported to Mexico sues Trump administration\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A Sunnyvale carpenter who was rushed to the emergency room during an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028303/ice-arrest-left-bay-area-man-hospitalized-struggling-breathe-attorney-says\">immigration arrest\u003c/a> last year is suing the Trump administration, saying violent treatment by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and months of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12075152/a-year-after-ice-detained-south-bay-immigrant-family-trauma-lingers\">medical neglect in ICE detention\u003c/a> left him seriously disabled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ulises Peña López, who was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077703/its-inhumane-after-sunnyvale-fathers-deportation-family-trauma-lingers\">deported to Mexico\u003c/a> in October after eight months in custody, said ICE officers beat him until he lost consciousness, despite the fact that he and his wife warned them that he’d been diagnosed with a life-threatening condition. 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Today, Peña López, 32, said he’s paralyzed on the right side of his body and walks with a cane, his vision and hearing are impaired, and he can’t work to support himself or pay for the medical care he needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I want more than anything, I can’t get back: to recover my health, to be with my wife and daughter, and to be able to work again,” he said in a recent phone interview from an aunt’s home in Michoacán, where he lives now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His U.S.-born wife, Aby Peña, who has remained in California with the couple’s now-5-year-old daughter, Emily, said she doesn’t understand how ICE officers could treat another human being as her husband was treated. “It’s just inhumane,” she said. “And it also affects children because they’re being separated, and it’s a damage that is irreversible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a federal civil rights lawsuit filed Monday, his lawyers say the arrest, on Feb. 21, 2025, led to “a cascade of harms,” including lasting trauma for Peña and their daughter, who witnessed it. By law, the complaint said, ICE “bears responsibility for the safety and well-being of individuals” it detains. Yet court records indicate the arrest triggered a heart attack and stroke. 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"content": "\u003cp>For eight years, Angelica Estrada-Bugarin’s life moved with the lettuce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a food safety manager for one of the country’s largest salad producers, she followed the harvest the way thousands of agricultural workers do: spring and summer in California’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/salinas\">Salinas\u003c/a> Valley, winter in Yuma, Arizona, as the whole operation shifted south so the crop never stopped growing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Growing up in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/merced-county\">Merced County\u003c/a>, Estrada-Bugarin watched her parents buy produce from small farmers and truck it to terminal markets in Los Angeles and San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She went on to study managerial economics at UC Davis, learning how big food worked from the inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, she decided to stop moving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I realized I needed to kind of settle down,” Estrada-Bugarin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as she settled, she noticed a problem that kept surfacing: small farmers in the Central Valley — many of them immigrants, many growing without synthetic chemicals — could grow beautiful food but had nowhere reliable to sell it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12089197\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12089197\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260626_CaliforniaFarmers_GC-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260626_CaliforniaFarmers_GC-04-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260626_CaliforniaFarmers_GC-04-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260626_CaliforniaFarmers_GC-04-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Angelica Estrada-Bugarin, founder of Sweet Valley Produce, left, smiles with her mother Maria Elena, right, at Sweet Valley Produce in Merced on June 26, 2026. Angelica felt inspired to work in agriculture after growing up watching her parents buy produce from small farmers and distribute it to a larger market. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Today, Estrada-Bugarin is the founder and president of \u003ca href=\"https://svproduceinc.com/\">Sweet Valley Produce\u003c/a>, a food hub in Merced County that aggregates fruits and vegetables from small regenerative and organic farms and finds them markets. The beauty of her line of work, she said, lies in connecting growers and eaters “without having to go through a lot of steps in the food chain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For one year, the program that made that vision work best was a federal one, called the Local Food Purchase Assistance Program, or LFPA. It expired for Sweet Valley Produce in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal LFPA helped hundreds of California farms sell millions of pounds of locally grown food to food banks while paying growers full market prices. Now that the Trump administration has ended the program, California farmers fear losing one of their most reliable markets as state leaders weigh whether to keep it alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, lawmakers have proposed extending state funding for LFPA, and the measure sits on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk. Newsom, who has publicly opposed the program’s cancellation, has until Tuesday to decide whether California will fund the program on its own.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A box of vegetables, a family fed\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>LFPA was born out of the pandemic, when federal money flowed to strengthen local food supply chains. The U.S. Department of Agriculture sent funds to states, which used them to buy food from local farmers and route it to hunger-relief programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, the program was called Farms Together, which was run by three nonprofits — the Community Alliance with Family Farmers, or CAFF, Fresh Approach and the California Association of Food Banks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Estrada-Bugarin and many other small farms, it worked like this: food banks paid Sweet Valley Produce, which assembled boxes of seven to 12 seasonal items — fruits, vegetables, herbs, plus a monthly value-added product like honey or microgreens — sourced from four or five local farms each.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12089203\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12089203\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260626_CaliforniaFarmers_GC-21-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260626_CaliforniaFarmers_GC-21-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260626_CaliforniaFarmers_GC-21-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260626_CaliforniaFarmers_GC-21-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A fruit and vegetable stand at Sweet Valley Produce in Merced on June 26, 2026. Sweet Valley Produce is a farm and produce aggregator in Merced County specializing in growing and distributing sweet potatoes while also supplying fresh produce from local family farms. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The boxes went to the Modesto Salvation Army, which told her that many of the recipients were elderly people who couldn’t easily get to a store by themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without the program, she said, those families mostly received dry goods. “They don’t get the nutrient value of the vegetables and the fruits, especially those that are seasonally and locally available.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The scale was substantial. By Estrada-Bugarin and CAFF’s accounts, LFPA worked with roughly 870 farms across over 50 California counties and 50 food banks, moving some 23 million pounds of food and more than $60 million in local purchases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sweet Valley Produce alone held a contract worth more than $800,000 — money to buy from farms across Stanislaus, Merced, Fresno and Madera counties, and most importantly, money remaining rooted in the region. “When the farmer gets paid that money, they go and spend it within our own economy,” she said.[aside postID=news_12087134 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260610_LodiWine_GC-8-KQED.jpg']Nearly two hundred miles northwest, in Sonoma County, Dylan Stein watched the same program reshape a different operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stein is the wholesale manager and a worker-owner at \u003ca href=\"https://www.feedsonoma.com/\">FEED Cooperative\u003c/a>, a Petaluma food hub jointly owned by the farmers who sell through it and the workers who run it. FEED moves produce for a network of about 70 small North Bay farms, many of them 10 acres or less — tiny by California standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In 2024, it comprised like 25% of our sales,” Stein said of LFPA. “That being there just gave an extra outlet for the farms we work with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was kind of a thriving year for a lot of farms in the North Bay,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Food banks noticed the difference. Pallets that might normally have held russet potatoes instead arrived full of leafy greens and herbs picked the day before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re opening these boxes, and it’s almost like gold light is coming out,” Stein said. “It’s the best quality produce that you can find.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of FEED’s other customers are high-end restaurants, he noted, meaning that the food banks were getting the same thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>More than charity\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The deeper value of LFPA, the growers said, wasn’t just generosity. It was stability — and the price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you pay $3 for a bunch of kale at Sprouts, usually the farmer gets like $1 of that,” Estrada-Bugarin said. “But in this case the money went directly to the farmer, so the farmer got paid $3 a bunch.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That cushion also made it possible for some growers to farm without synthetic chemicals. Regenerative practices, or rebuilding soil through crop rotation, hedgerows and minimal inputs, often result in lower yields. But the better price absorbed the difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12089201\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12089201\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260626_CaliforniaFarmers_GC-18-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260626_CaliforniaFarmers_GC-18-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260626_CaliforniaFarmers_GC-18-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260626_CaliforniaFarmers_GC-18-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sweet potatoes rest in a crate at Sweet Valley Produce in Merced on June 26, 2026. Sweet Valley Produce is based in the Central Valley and specializes in growing and distributing sweet potatoes. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I actually had at least two farmers who were transitioning to organic farming from conventional farming because they were able to be supported through this program,” Estrada-Bugarin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others, who previously grew a single crop, used it to start diversifying their fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At FEED, Stein saw similar progress. A grower with a surprise surplus — 80 cases of tomatoes in a year that usually yields 50 — suddenly had somewhere to send the extra load.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over three strong years, farmers accomplished what farm statistics rarely reflect: They expanded. They planted new fields, signed new leases and, in a few cases, bought land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Usually when you’re hearing about farm stats, it’s like farms closing and acreage downgrading,” Stein said. “So these expansions we saw were a huge deal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike Lavender, policy director at the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition, said that combination of economic and human value helped the program win bipartisan support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12089200\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12089200\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260626_CaliforniaFarmers_GC-16-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260626_CaliforniaFarmers_GC-16-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260626_CaliforniaFarmers_GC-16-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260626_CaliforniaFarmers_GC-16-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cartons of sweet potatoes await sorting in a warehouse at Sweet Valley Produce in Merced on June 26, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Farmers loved it because it improved their viability,” he said. “But they also loved just being able to feed their community on a human level.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, in 2025, the second Trump administration terminated the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lavender said that the cancellation arrived at the worst possible moment in the agricultural calendar, “just as farmers were purchasing seeds and getting ready for the spring season.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stein recalled the whiplash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even contracts that you’re in the middle of are canceled. They stop delivering.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After pushback, growers were allowed to finish existing agreements, but the roughly three additional years of funding they had planned around simply evaporated.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Land, labor and belonging\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://caff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/2026-CAFF-Policy-Report-English-Final-Single.pdf\">report\u003c/a> from CAFF found that 5% of landowners control half of California’s cropland, and that the market increasingly favors private equity firms and investors buying large parcels. For a small grower hoping to buy 10 or 20 acres, there’s often nothing within that size range to buy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Otherwise, you’re stuck renting,” Estrada-Bugarin said, “and then you’re just in this pattern of renting and never really owning the land that you farm.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CAFF also estimates that about 70% of California farmers participating in LFPA identified as socially disadvantaged, a USDA designation for groups that have historically faced barriers to land, credit and federal programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12089199\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12089199\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260626_CaliforniaFarmers_GC-09-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260626_CaliforniaFarmers_GC-09-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260626_CaliforniaFarmers_GC-09-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260626_CaliforniaFarmers_GC-09-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The crops of a Laotian farmer, using their harvesting techniques, grow at Sweet Valley Produce in Merced on June 26, 2026. Sweet Valley Produce is a farm and produce aggregator in Merced County, specializing in growing and distributing sweet potatoes, while also supplying fresh produce from local family farms. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Estrada-Bugarin, the work is deeply personal. As a Mexican American, she grew up hearing that farming was a dead end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were always told, ‘Don’t work in the fields, agriculture is bad, it’s hard work, not well paid.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One story stands out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During last year’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043515/more-protests-held-across-southern-california-as-trump-administration-orders-more-national-guard-to-la\">immigration protests\u003c/a> that shut down parts of downtown Los Angeles, a farmer she worked with couldn’t get to his local farmers market for an entire week. He had harvested 80 boxes of plums — and had nowhere to sell them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He called her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because LFPA existed, the plums went into food-bank boxes instead of the compost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s a very strong example of the power that LFPA had to support us as farmers through these political climates,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration’s immigration crackdowns added another obstacle for farmers, Estrada-Bugarin said. Crops went unharvested. Yields and income were lost. She said immigration authorities drove past Sweet Valley Produce at least once. Her employees, although prepared, were rattled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigration reform and the farm bill move on separate tracks in Washington, through different congressional committees, Lavender said, so labor policy can’t simply be written into the bill — even though the two are “deeply linked” in the real world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12089202\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12089202\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260626_CaliforniaFarmers_GC-20-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1313\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260626_CaliforniaFarmers_GC-20-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260626_CaliforniaFarmers_GC-20-KQED-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260626_CaliforniaFarmers_GC-20-KQED-1536x1008.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A farmer tends to their crops at Sweet Valley Produce in Merced on June 26, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Estrada-Bugarin sees the gap from the ground. The industry’s long-running answer to labor uncertainty has been automation, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But what happens with that? You’re pushing out the small farmers, because we don’t have the money to have automation either,” said Estrada-Bugarin, who would rather see programs such as the H-2A agricultural visa become easier for farmers to use. “How to make it more accessible, or how to make it work better for all of us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now she’s trying to convince the next generation that there are viable careers in agriculture. The community that Estrada-Bugarin has built reflects that ambition. The growers she works with are Hindu, Laotian, Indian, Mennonite and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This whole business is centered around relationship building,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a first-generation American, she had to build those relationships from scratch, without the established networks that others inherit, the same way her parents farmed on passion without the language or the technology to keep up.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Farm bill uncertainty looms\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For now, the future of California’s small farms may depend as much on Sacramento as it does Washington. With Farms Together’s federal funding gone, the coalition has asked the state for $45 million to keep the program alive. Lawmakers included $15 million in their \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB109\">budget proposal\u003c/a> that Newsom is reviewing — enough, CAFF estimates, to keep it operating for about another year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email, CAFF’s policy and organizing manager Keely Cervantes said that “farmers, food hubs, and food banks across California are urging Governor Newsom to support this vital safety net for both farmers and food insecure families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the federal level, the picture is murkier. A new farm bill is being marked up ahead of a Sept. 30 deadline. It includes the Local Farmers Feeding Communities Act, which would create a permanent program similar to LFPA. But the proposal includes no guaranteed funding. Lavender called it “the bones of the house, but there’s no furniture. The lights won’t go on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12089196\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12089196\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260626_CaliforniaFarmers_GC-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260626_CaliforniaFarmers_GC-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260626_CaliforniaFarmers_GC-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260626_CaliforniaFarmers_GC-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Angelica Estrada-Bugarin, founder of Sweet Valley Produce, poses for a portrait at the entrance to the farm in Merced on June 26, 2026. Sweet Valley Produce is a farm and produce aggregator in Merced County, specializing in growing and distributing sweet potatoes, while also supplying fresh produce from local family farms. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Estrada-Bugarin said she has heard officials talk about supporting local farmers and putting America first. She would like to see it reach the people who grow the food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to continue supporting, because California is where most of our fresh fruits and vegetables are coming from,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the funding returns, Estrada-Bugarin said, she will keep building. First refrigeration for her warehouse, food processing after that and then more partnerships with farmers. If it doesn’t, she fears some growers will simply quit. She has already watched several walk away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I see the need,” Estrada-Bugarin said. “I just work toward whatever I can do to make it happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a recent industry expo, Estrada-Bugarin realized that she was the only small grower in the room. Half the buyers and suppliers, she said, were from other countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She felt imposter syndrome creeping in. Then she pushed past it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to start taking space and being in these places,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Reporting for this story was supported by the \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://lapressclub.org/\">\u003cem>Los Angeles Press Club’s\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> Charles M. Rappleye Investigative Journalism Award.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She went on to study managerial economics at UC Davis, learning how big food worked from the inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, she decided to stop moving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I realized I needed to kind of settle down,” Estrada-Bugarin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as she settled, she noticed a problem that kept surfacing: small farmers in the Central Valley — many of them immigrants, many growing without synthetic chemicals — could grow beautiful food but had nowhere reliable to sell it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12089197\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12089197\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260626_CaliforniaFarmers_GC-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260626_CaliforniaFarmers_GC-04-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260626_CaliforniaFarmers_GC-04-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260626_CaliforniaFarmers_GC-04-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Angelica Estrada-Bugarin, founder of Sweet Valley Produce, left, smiles with her mother Maria Elena, right, at Sweet Valley Produce in Merced on June 26, 2026. Angelica felt inspired to work in agriculture after growing up watching her parents buy produce from small farmers and distribute it to a larger market. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Today, Estrada-Bugarin is the founder and president of \u003ca href=\"https://svproduceinc.com/\">Sweet Valley Produce\u003c/a>, a food hub in Merced County that aggregates fruits and vegetables from small regenerative and organic farms and finds them markets. The beauty of her line of work, she said, lies in connecting growers and eaters “without having to go through a lot of steps in the food chain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For one year, the program that made that vision work best was a federal one, called the Local Food Purchase Assistance Program, or LFPA. It expired for Sweet Valley Produce in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal LFPA helped hundreds of California farms sell millions of pounds of locally grown food to food banks while paying growers full market prices. Now that the Trump administration has ended the program, California farmers fear losing one of their most reliable markets as state leaders weigh whether to keep it alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, lawmakers have proposed extending state funding for LFPA, and the measure sits on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk. Newsom, who has publicly opposed the program’s cancellation, has until Tuesday to decide whether California will fund the program on its own.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A box of vegetables, a family fed\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>LFPA was born out of the pandemic, when federal money flowed to strengthen local food supply chains. The U.S. Department of Agriculture sent funds to states, which used them to buy food from local farmers and route it to hunger-relief programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, the program was called Farms Together, which was run by three nonprofits — the Community Alliance with Family Farmers, or CAFF, Fresh Approach and the California Association of Food Banks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Estrada-Bugarin and many other small farms, it worked like this: food banks paid Sweet Valley Produce, which assembled boxes of seven to 12 seasonal items — fruits, vegetables, herbs, plus a monthly value-added product like honey or microgreens — sourced from four or five local farms each.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12089203\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12089203\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260626_CaliforniaFarmers_GC-21-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260626_CaliforniaFarmers_GC-21-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260626_CaliforniaFarmers_GC-21-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260626_CaliforniaFarmers_GC-21-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A fruit and vegetable stand at Sweet Valley Produce in Merced on June 26, 2026. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Nearly two hundred miles northwest, in Sonoma County, Dylan Stein watched the same program reshape a different operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stein is the wholesale manager and a worker-owner at \u003ca href=\"https://www.feedsonoma.com/\">FEED Cooperative\u003c/a>, a Petaluma food hub jointly owned by the farmers who sell through it and the workers who run it. FEED moves produce for a network of about 70 small North Bay farms, many of them 10 acres or less — tiny by California standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In 2024, it comprised like 25% of our sales,” Stein said of LFPA. “That being there just gave an extra outlet for the farms we work with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was kind of a thriving year for a lot of farms in the North Bay,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Food banks noticed the difference. Pallets that might normally have held russet potatoes instead arrived full of leafy greens and herbs picked the day before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re opening these boxes, and it’s almost like gold light is coming out,” Stein said. “It’s the best quality produce that you can find.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of FEED’s other customers are high-end restaurants, he noted, meaning that the food banks were getting the same thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>More than charity\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The deeper value of LFPA, the growers said, wasn’t just generosity. It was stability — and the price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you pay $3 for a bunch of kale at Sprouts, usually the farmer gets like $1 of that,” Estrada-Bugarin said. “But in this case the money went directly to the farmer, so the farmer got paid $3 a bunch.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That cushion also made it possible for some growers to farm without synthetic chemicals. Regenerative practices, or rebuilding soil through crop rotation, hedgerows and minimal inputs, often result in lower yields. But the better price absorbed the difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12089201\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12089201\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260626_CaliforniaFarmers_GC-18-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260626_CaliforniaFarmers_GC-18-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260626_CaliforniaFarmers_GC-18-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260626_CaliforniaFarmers_GC-18-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sweet potatoes rest in a crate at Sweet Valley Produce in Merced on June 26, 2026. Sweet Valley Produce is based in the Central Valley and specializes in growing and distributing sweet potatoes. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I actually had at least two farmers who were transitioning to organic farming from conventional farming because they were able to be supported through this program,” Estrada-Bugarin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others, who previously grew a single crop, used it to start diversifying their fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At FEED, Stein saw similar progress. A grower with a surprise surplus — 80 cases of tomatoes in a year that usually yields 50 — suddenly had somewhere to send the extra load.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over three strong years, farmers accomplished what farm statistics rarely reflect: They expanded. They planted new fields, signed new leases and, in a few cases, bought land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Usually when you’re hearing about farm stats, it’s like farms closing and acreage downgrading,” Stein said. “So these expansions we saw were a huge deal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike Lavender, policy director at the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition, said that combination of economic and human value helped the program win bipartisan support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12089200\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12089200\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260626_CaliforniaFarmers_GC-16-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260626_CaliforniaFarmers_GC-16-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260626_CaliforniaFarmers_GC-16-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260626_CaliforniaFarmers_GC-16-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cartons of sweet potatoes await sorting in a warehouse at Sweet Valley Produce in Merced on June 26, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Farmers loved it because it improved their viability,” he said. “But they also loved just being able to feed their community on a human level.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, in 2025, the second Trump administration terminated the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lavender said that the cancellation arrived at the worst possible moment in the agricultural calendar, “just as farmers were purchasing seeds and getting ready for the spring season.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stein recalled the whiplash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even contracts that you’re in the middle of are canceled. They stop delivering.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After pushback, growers were allowed to finish existing agreements, but the roughly three additional years of funding they had planned around simply evaporated.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Land, labor and belonging\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://caff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/2026-CAFF-Policy-Report-English-Final-Single.pdf\">report\u003c/a> from CAFF found that 5% of landowners control half of California’s cropland, and that the market increasingly favors private equity firms and investors buying large parcels. For a small grower hoping to buy 10 or 20 acres, there’s often nothing within that size range to buy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Otherwise, you’re stuck renting,” Estrada-Bugarin said, “and then you’re just in this pattern of renting and never really owning the land that you farm.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CAFF also estimates that about 70% of California farmers participating in LFPA identified as socially disadvantaged, a USDA designation for groups that have historically faced barriers to land, credit and federal programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12089199\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12089199\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260626_CaliforniaFarmers_GC-09-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260626_CaliforniaFarmers_GC-09-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260626_CaliforniaFarmers_GC-09-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260626_CaliforniaFarmers_GC-09-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The crops of a Laotian farmer, using their harvesting techniques, grow at Sweet Valley Produce in Merced on June 26, 2026. Sweet Valley Produce is a farm and produce aggregator in Merced County, specializing in growing and distributing sweet potatoes, while also supplying fresh produce from local family farms. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Estrada-Bugarin, the work is deeply personal. As a Mexican American, she grew up hearing that farming was a dead end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were always told, ‘Don’t work in the fields, agriculture is bad, it’s hard work, not well paid.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One story stands out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During last year’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043515/more-protests-held-across-southern-california-as-trump-administration-orders-more-national-guard-to-la\">immigration protests\u003c/a> that shut down parts of downtown Los Angeles, a farmer she worked with couldn’t get to his local farmers market for an entire week. He had harvested 80 boxes of plums — and had nowhere to sell them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He called her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because LFPA existed, the plums went into food-bank boxes instead of the compost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s a very strong example of the power that LFPA had to support us as farmers through these political climates,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration’s immigration crackdowns added another obstacle for farmers, Estrada-Bugarin said. Crops went unharvested. Yields and income were lost. She said immigration authorities drove past Sweet Valley Produce at least once. Her employees, although prepared, were rattled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigration reform and the farm bill move on separate tracks in Washington, through different congressional committees, Lavender said, so labor policy can’t simply be written into the bill — even though the two are “deeply linked” in the real world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12089202\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12089202\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260626_CaliforniaFarmers_GC-20-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1313\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260626_CaliforniaFarmers_GC-20-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260626_CaliforniaFarmers_GC-20-KQED-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260626_CaliforniaFarmers_GC-20-KQED-1536x1008.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A farmer tends to their crops at Sweet Valley Produce in Merced on June 26, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Estrada-Bugarin sees the gap from the ground. The industry’s long-running answer to labor uncertainty has been automation, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But what happens with that? You’re pushing out the small farmers, because we don’t have the money to have automation either,” said Estrada-Bugarin, who would rather see programs such as the H-2A agricultural visa become easier for farmers to use. “How to make it more accessible, or how to make it work better for all of us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now she’s trying to convince the next generation that there are viable careers in agriculture. The community that Estrada-Bugarin has built reflects that ambition. The growers she works with are Hindu, Laotian, Indian, Mennonite and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This whole business is centered around relationship building,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a first-generation American, she had to build those relationships from scratch, without the established networks that others inherit, the same way her parents farmed on passion without the language or the technology to keep up.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Farm bill uncertainty looms\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For now, the future of California’s small farms may depend as much on Sacramento as it does Washington. With Farms Together’s federal funding gone, the coalition has asked the state for $45 million to keep the program alive. Lawmakers included $15 million in their \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB109\">budget proposal\u003c/a> that Newsom is reviewing — enough, CAFF estimates, to keep it operating for about another year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email, CAFF’s policy and organizing manager Keely Cervantes said that “farmers, food hubs, and food banks across California are urging Governor Newsom to support this vital safety net for both farmers and food insecure families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the federal level, the picture is murkier. A new farm bill is being marked up ahead of a Sept. 30 deadline. It includes the Local Farmers Feeding Communities Act, which would create a permanent program similar to LFPA. But the proposal includes no guaranteed funding. Lavender called it “the bones of the house, but there’s no furniture. The lights won’t go on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12089196\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12089196\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260626_CaliforniaFarmers_GC-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260626_CaliforniaFarmers_GC-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260626_CaliforniaFarmers_GC-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260626_CaliforniaFarmers_GC-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Angelica Estrada-Bugarin, founder of Sweet Valley Produce, poses for a portrait at the entrance to the farm in Merced on June 26, 2026. 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She has already watched several walk away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I see the need,” Estrada-Bugarin said. “I just work toward whatever I can do to make it happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a recent industry expo, Estrada-Bugarin realized that she was the only small grower in the room. Half the buyers and suppliers, she said, were from other countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She felt imposter syndrome creeping in. Then she pushed past it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to start taking space and being in these places,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Reporting for this story was supported by the \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://lapressclub.org/\">\u003cem>Los Angeles Press Club’s\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> Charles M. Rappleye Investigative Journalism Award.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A massive warehouse fire that destroyed a medical supply facility in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/tracy\">Tracy\u003c/a> on Thursday could continue to burn for several days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire officials said a water system failure contributed to the rapid spread of the blaze. No official cause has been identified yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is our largest concern when we have several million square foot warehouses,” Tracy Fire Department Chief Randall Bradley said Thursday afternoon. “My first thought was [with] an aggressive fire attack, we’d be able to stop it, but things worked against us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a little bit of a perfect storm for this fire evolving quickly,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire officials responded just after 1 p.m. Thursday to the 5700 block of Promontory Parkway, where a structure fire had broken out on the roof of a distribution facility for Medline, one of the largest medical supply manufacturers and distributors in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tracy, a major commuter hub for the Bay Area, is home to massive e-commerce and distribution centers, many 1 million square feet or larger. City officials said hundreds of employees work on the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are grateful that all Medline employees and on-site personnel were safely evacuated and accounted for,” a spokesperson for the company said in a statement. Bradley said the fire spread quickly from the roof to the rest of the building, engulfing it in flames within a 30-minute period despite an “aggressive” internal fire attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12087373\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1980px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12087373\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/GettyImages-2280507113.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1485\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/GettyImages-2280507113.jpg 1980w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/GettyImages-2280507113-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/GettyImages-2280507113-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1980px) 100vw, 1980px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Black smoke pours into the sky from a massive commercial fire at the Medline Industries medical supply warehouse in Tracy, California, on June 11, 2026. The South San Joaquin County Fire Authority reported that the million-square-foot distribution facility on Promontory Parkway was fully engulfed, prompting the evacuation of neighboring commercial structures and nearby fulfillment centers within the industrial park. \u003ccite>(Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The firefighters battled high winds, low humidity and hot temperatures. They also lacked sufficient water supply — the facility’s two fire sprinkler systems did not activate, and its fire hydrants lacked water pressure, Bradley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City-operated fire hydrants outside the facility operated correctly, he said. Bradley said the water supply issues will require a post-incident investigation, but he believes the water supply issue was a facility issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire spread across the street to a FedEx warehouse, burning pallets and containers stacked outside. Bradley said efforts to stop the spread of flames into that warehouse were ongoing, but “promising” on Thursday afternoon, and he believed they would be able to save the structure. There were also multiple spot fires throughout the city, which Bradley said crews were able to extinguish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between 100 and 150 firefighters responded to the scene, and Bradley said he expects personnel to remain for several days to try to stop the blaze from spreading further across the 1,800-acre industrial park.[aside postID=science_2001297 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/06/ControlledBurnGetty1.jpg']According to city manager Midori Lichtwardt, in addition to the Medline and FedEx facilities, the area also includes a Home Depot, Amazon and multiple other operational warehouses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the Medline facility continued to burn Thursday afternoon, billowing dark smoke into the sky, intermittent explosions could be heard outside the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bradley said those were likely caused by ruptured tires on distribution trucks, or explosions of some product inside the facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not clear if any of the products stored in the facility could pose a risk to the surrounding area, Bradley said. The city is monitoring air quality and had not issued any warnings on Thursday. Local public health officials urged nearby residents to stay indoors if possible and keep windows and doors closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Among the chemicals that were consumed in the Medline fire were an assortment of respiratory irritants, toxic gases, carcinogens, and at least one neurotoxin,” Dr. Maggie Park, San Joaquin County Public Health Services’ public health officer, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to California Environmental Protection Agency records, Medline stores xylene, sulfuric acid and sodium hydroxide, as well as bleach, at the facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If anyone in the vicinity of the smoke plumes inhaled the smoke and is experiencing sudden onset respiratory problems, headaches, dizziness, nausea, or throat irritation, they should report to their nearest emergency department for further evaluation and treatment,” Park said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>According to city manager Midori Lichtwardt, in addition to the Medline and FedEx facilities, the area also includes a Home Depot, Amazon and multiple other operational warehouses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the Medline facility continued to burn Thursday afternoon, billowing dark smoke into the sky, intermittent explosions could be heard outside the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bradley said those were likely caused by ruptured tires on distribution trucks, or explosions of some product inside the facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not clear if any of the products stored in the facility could pose a risk to the surrounding area, Bradley said. The city is monitoring air quality and had not issued any warnings on Thursday. Local public health officials urged nearby residents to stay indoors if possible and keep windows and doors closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Among the chemicals that were consumed in the Medline fire were an assortment of respiratory irritants, toxic gases, carcinogens, and at least one neurotoxin,” Dr. Maggie Park, San Joaquin County Public Health Services’ public health officer, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to California Environmental Protection Agency records, Medline stores xylene, sulfuric acid and sodium hydroxide, as well as bleach, at the facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If anyone in the vicinity of the smoke plumes inhaled the smoke and is experiencing sudden onset respiratory problems, headaches, dizziness, nausea, or throat irritation, they should report to their nearest emergency department for further evaluation and treatment,” Park said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published in the \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.lodinews.com/news/article_5861a96a-6744-4727-8a92-f52dcf7a6e0c.html\">\u003cem>Lodi News-Sentinel\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> and has been edited for KQED.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Mohr-Fry Ranch, just south of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/central-valley\">Central Valley\u003c/a> city of Lodi, peacocks roamed through one vineyard on a blindingly sunny spring day. Mohrgan Fry strolled through her family’s ranch, pointing a manicured pink nail at rows of dark brown, gnarly vine branches that split off in all directions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They all look like they have a story to tell, right?” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That includes the story of her family, who have been farming grapes in the region for six decades. For the past 13 years, they’ve been cultivating grapes exclusively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060895/visiting-a-vineyard-to-see-how-the-bays-wine-industry-is-doing\">California’s wine industry began bottoming out \u003c/a>over the past few years, driven by what growers say is the worst industry storm they have seen in their lifetimes, the family started looking at different options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where the industry is at, you have to be able to diversify and be willing to try something new,” Fry said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grapes are everywhere in Lodi — in the city’s official logo. On murals downtown. They’re the namesake of the stadium and the annual “Lodi Grape Festival.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of 66,000 has about a dozen wine tasting rooms — and that’s just within the city limits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12087157\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12087157\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260610_LodiWine_GC-25-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1302\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260610_LodiWine_GC-25-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260610_LodiWine_GC-25-KQED-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260610_LodiWine_GC-25-KQED-1536x1000.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The entrance to Mohr-Fry Ranches, a six-generation family farming operation since 1855, in Lodi on June 10, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But it’s no longer just the land of the grape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orchards full of pistachios, almonds and olives are popping up all over the city’s outskirts as challenges in the wine industry are pushing growers to try other crops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wine consumption is down globally, according to reports from the International Organisation of Vine and Wine. National reports from the Napa-based Wine Market Council show baby boomers are drinking less as they age. Younger generations are drinking less too, as they become more health — and wallet — conscious. On the supply side, California grape growers are having to compete with cheaper foreign-grown grapes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consequently, growers in Lodi and across the state are ripping vines out. About 10% of vines in the Lodi area were removed in the last year alone, according to a report from the California Association of Winegrape Growers.[aside postID=news_12077310 hero= 'https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031226_DRAGONDEN-_GH_015-KQED.jpg']About a fifth of California’s vineyard acreage has been ripped out since 2022, state data shows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some smaller vineyards are closing shop altogether. Others are taking unique approaches, like leasing their land for use as water-recharge basins. But for grape growers who want to continue growing, there is one key to staying afloat — crop diversification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s especially true for larger farming operations, according to Lodi Winegrape Commission Executive Director Stuart Spencer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We honestly think this is a good thing,” he said. “I think diversification is always good from an economic and business perspective and … ecological perspective.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a sixth-generation farmer, it’s not surprising that Fry knows so much about grapes. She grew up around the family business and always knew she wanted to be a part of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hate sitting in the office,” she said. “But I love being outside. I love being with Mother Nature.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given the choice, she’d spend every minute in the vineyards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You get to make decisions that are different than in an office or in a lab, because you’re out there and you’re making pruning decisions, and then you see the results within a few months,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12087149\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12087149\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260610_LodiWine_GC-2-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260610_LodiWine_GC-2-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260610_LodiWine_GC-2-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260610_LodiWine_GC-2-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bruce Fry, left, and his daughter Mohrgan Fry, right, examine grape vines at their ranch Mohr-Fry Ranches, a six-generation family farming operation since 1855, in Lodi on June 10, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After studying the business and engineering of agriculture at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, she knew she wanted to bring what she’d learned back to her family’s ranch as operations manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when she graduated two years ago, the industry was tanking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ironically, I think it was actually the best time to come join the industry, I think for me, for my family,” she said. “It’s a time for us to really think about the decisions we’re making and how we can be more efficient, how we can save money, but still be able to provide for our employees and continue to farm.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Frys are no strangers to diversification. Over the 171 years their family has been farming, they’ve grown 30 different crops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They started out in what is now Hayward, but at the time was land claimed by the Spanish. Fry’s great-great-great-grandfather left a whaling ship in the San Francisco Bay to start farming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family didn’t start with grapes. Instead, they grew crops like tomatoes, sugar beets and wheat. As Hayward became more urban, they moved the operation to Lodi in 1965 and got into the wine business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12087155\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12087155\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260610_LodiWine_GC-19-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1365\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260610_LodiWine_GC-19-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260610_LodiWine_GC-19-KQED-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260610_LodiWine_GC-19-KQED-1536x1048.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bottles of wine, made with Mohr-Fry Ranches’ grapes, are displayed in the ranch’s office in Lodi on June 10, 2026. Mohr-Fry Ranches is a six-generation family farming operation. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It was right around that time that Mohrgan’s grandfather, Jerry Fry, took over the business. He’s seen it through labor shifts from World War II to the Bracero Program that brought workers from Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few decades later, Mohrgan’s dad, Bruce Fry, came into the business. Like Mohrgan, he’d just graduated from Cal Poly. At that time, wineries were consolidating, leaving grape growers with fewer buyers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the same issues the family faced then have continued. Fewer wineries, increasing labor costs, damaging pests. And now, more foreign competition and decreasing wine consumption. Jerry said none of the previous threats have been quite like the current one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In my perspective, this has been the most challenging of anything that I think our family has dealt with,” Jerry said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past, they could plant a different crop every year and rip it out if it wasn’t selling well. Now, because of the soil type and price of the land, annual crops don’t make financial sense for them. That means picking a permanent crop, one they’ll be committed to for the next two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the past year or so, the family’s been weighing their options. They’ve been talking to neighbors, looking at research, setting up spreadsheets. At the moment, they’re leaning toward olives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12087154\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12087154\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260610_LodiWine_GC-17-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1367\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260610_LodiWine_GC-17-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260610_LodiWine_GC-17-KQED-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260610_LodiWine_GC-17-KQED-1536x1050.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A plaque awarding Marian’s Vineyard for the California State Fair’s “2025 Vineyard of the Year” is displayed at Mohr-Fry Ranches, a six-generation family farming operation, in Lodi on June 10, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And last fall, they ripped out a block of their vineyards to begin their next chapter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On another one of the Frys’ properties just north of Lodi, Mohrgan and Bruce stood on a gravel path that runs right through the past and future of their farming operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the south side, where there once were Chardonnay grapes, little green sprouts stick up out of the dirt, far into the distance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s safflower, a transitional crop. Mohrgan explained it will help add some nutrients to the soil that the vineyards had used up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really good for the soil health, for its porosity, all those other fun things,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Transitioning crops is a yearslong process. After the grape harvest this past fall, they ripped out the vines. For several months, they planted safflower in its place. By this time next year, the safflower will be swapped out for the new permanent crop, likely olives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The process was made possible with the aid of a regional government initiative, the Ag Burn Alternatives Grant Program, that paid to help remove the vines in an environmentally friendly way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that the program is really great because [it] saves you some money,” she said. “Getting your tax dollars back, right?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mohrgan and her family are keenly aware of what the government is — and isn’t — doing to help farmers like them. Even as they spoke with a reporter, Bruce got an alert on his phone and pulled up a livestream of a state Assembly hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12087150\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12087150\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260610_LodiWine_GC-3-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260610_LodiWine_GC-3-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260610_LodiWine_GC-3-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260610_LodiWine_GC-3-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bruce Fry, left, and his daughter Mohrgan Fry, right, examine grape clusters at their ranch Mohr-Fry Ranches, a six-generation family farming operation since 1855, in Lodi on June 10, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The hearing focused on \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260ab1585\">AB 1585\u003c/a>, a bill that would require wines to be made with 100% American grapes if vintners want to use an “American” designation on the label.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Fry family and many other growers in the state say it will stop wineries from blending in cheaper foreign grapes. They also hope it will encourage them to buy from American growers, most of which are in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For 40 minutes, Mohrgan held the phone on the hood of her blue Chevy truck. She and her dad watched intently as assemblymembers debated the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, the committee members voted to move the bill along to the next stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hopefully this bill keeps going, keeps rolling,” Mohrgan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Baby steps,” Bruce said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the bill does pass, it might alleviate one of the industry’s challenges. But there’s a long way to go if grape growers and vintners are to fully bounce back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet many growers like the Frys remain optimistic. They feel connected to grapes and believe the industry could be turning the corner soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the wine grape region, [and] it’s going to stay that way, but it’s just, it’s not going to be as big as what it was before,” Bruce said. “I think change is hard, but change makes things better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12087158\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12087158\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260610_LodiWine_GC-26-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1384\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260610_LodiWine_GC-26-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260610_LodiWine_GC-26-KQED-160x111.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260610_LodiWine_GC-26-KQED-1536x1063.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A peacock walks through a vineyard at Mohr-Fry Ranches in Lodi on June 10, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mohrgan said she feels encouraged by both the older generation’s willingness to pivot and her generation’s fresh ideas. Last year, the Lodi Winegrape Commission elected its youngest leadership team ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s just a lot of knowledge to learn from, like my grandpa and my dad, and I think because of that, we’ll make it through,” Mohrgan said. “You have, I wouldn’t say it’s a weight, but … you want to make your family proud.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With generations working together, they’re hoping to make wine feel less pretentious and more approachable for consumers. If they’re successful, Lodi could remain the land of the grape for years to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Hannah Weaver writes for the Lodi News-Sentinel as a cohort member of the California Local News Fellowship program, a multi-year, state-funded initiative to support and strengthen local news reporting in California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060895/visiting-a-vineyard-to-see-how-the-bays-wine-industry-is-doing\">California’s wine industry began bottoming out \u003c/a>over the past few years, driven by what growers say is the worst industry storm they have seen in their lifetimes, the family started looking at different options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where the industry is at, you have to be able to diversify and be willing to try something new,” Fry said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grapes are everywhere in Lodi — in the city’s official logo. On murals downtown. They’re the namesake of the stadium and the annual “Lodi Grape Festival.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of 66,000 has about a dozen wine tasting rooms — and that’s just within the city limits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12087157\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12087157\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260610_LodiWine_GC-25-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1302\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260610_LodiWine_GC-25-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260610_LodiWine_GC-25-KQED-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260610_LodiWine_GC-25-KQED-1536x1000.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The entrance to Mohr-Fry Ranches, a six-generation family farming operation since 1855, in Lodi on June 10, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But it’s no longer just the land of the grape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orchards full of pistachios, almonds and olives are popping up all over the city’s outskirts as challenges in the wine industry are pushing growers to try other crops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wine consumption is down globally, according to reports from the International Organisation of Vine and Wine. National reports from the Napa-based Wine Market Council show baby boomers are drinking less as they age. Younger generations are drinking less too, as they become more health — and wallet — conscious. On the supply side, California grape growers are having to compete with cheaper foreign-grown grapes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consequently, growers in Lodi and across the state are ripping vines out. About 10% of vines in the Lodi area were removed in the last year alone, according to a report from the California Association of Winegrape Growers.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>About a fifth of California’s vineyard acreage has been ripped out since 2022, state data shows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some smaller vineyards are closing shop altogether. Others are taking unique approaches, like leasing their land for use as water-recharge basins. But for grape growers who want to continue growing, there is one key to staying afloat — crop diversification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s especially true for larger farming operations, according to Lodi Winegrape Commission Executive Director Stuart Spencer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We honestly think this is a good thing,” he said. “I think diversification is always good from an economic and business perspective and … ecological perspective.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a sixth-generation farmer, it’s not surprising that Fry knows so much about grapes. She grew up around the family business and always knew she wanted to be a part of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hate sitting in the office,” she said. “But I love being outside. I love being with Mother Nature.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given the choice, she’d spend every minute in the vineyards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You get to make decisions that are different than in an office or in a lab, because you’re out there and you’re making pruning decisions, and then you see the results within a few months,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12087149\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12087149\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260610_LodiWine_GC-2-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260610_LodiWine_GC-2-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260610_LodiWine_GC-2-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260610_LodiWine_GC-2-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bruce Fry, left, and his daughter Mohrgan Fry, right, examine grape vines at their ranch Mohr-Fry Ranches, a six-generation family farming operation since 1855, in Lodi on June 10, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After studying the business and engineering of agriculture at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, she knew she wanted to bring what she’d learned back to her family’s ranch as operations manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when she graduated two years ago, the industry was tanking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ironically, I think it was actually the best time to come join the industry, I think for me, for my family,” she said. “It’s a time for us to really think about the decisions we’re making and how we can be more efficient, how we can save money, but still be able to provide for our employees and continue to farm.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Frys are no strangers to diversification. Over the 171 years their family has been farming, they’ve grown 30 different crops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They started out in what is now Hayward, but at the time was land claimed by the Spanish. Fry’s great-great-great-grandfather left a whaling ship in the San Francisco Bay to start farming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family didn’t start with grapes. Instead, they grew crops like tomatoes, sugar beets and wheat. As Hayward became more urban, they moved the operation to Lodi in 1965 and got into the wine business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12087155\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12087155\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260610_LodiWine_GC-19-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1365\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260610_LodiWine_GC-19-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260610_LodiWine_GC-19-KQED-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260610_LodiWine_GC-19-KQED-1536x1048.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bottles of wine, made with Mohr-Fry Ranches’ grapes, are displayed in the ranch’s office in Lodi on June 10, 2026. Mohr-Fry Ranches is a six-generation family farming operation. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It was right around that time that Mohrgan’s grandfather, Jerry Fry, took over the business. He’s seen it through labor shifts from World War II to the Bracero Program that brought workers from Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few decades later, Mohrgan’s dad, Bruce Fry, came into the business. Like Mohrgan, he’d just graduated from Cal Poly. At that time, wineries were consolidating, leaving grape growers with fewer buyers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the same issues the family faced then have continued. Fewer wineries, increasing labor costs, damaging pests. And now, more foreign competition and decreasing wine consumption. Jerry said none of the previous threats have been quite like the current one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In my perspective, this has been the most challenging of anything that I think our family has dealt with,” Jerry said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past, they could plant a different crop every year and rip it out if it wasn’t selling well. Now, because of the soil type and price of the land, annual crops don’t make financial sense for them. That means picking a permanent crop, one they’ll be committed to for the next two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the past year or so, the family’s been weighing their options. They’ve been talking to neighbors, looking at research, setting up spreadsheets. At the moment, they’re leaning toward olives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12087154\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12087154\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260610_LodiWine_GC-17-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1367\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260610_LodiWine_GC-17-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260610_LodiWine_GC-17-KQED-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260610_LodiWine_GC-17-KQED-1536x1050.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A plaque awarding Marian’s Vineyard for the California State Fair’s “2025 Vineyard of the Year” is displayed at Mohr-Fry Ranches, a six-generation family farming operation, in Lodi on June 10, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And last fall, they ripped out a block of their vineyards to begin their next chapter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On another one of the Frys’ properties just north of Lodi, Mohrgan and Bruce stood on a gravel path that runs right through the past and future of their farming operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the south side, where there once were Chardonnay grapes, little green sprouts stick up out of the dirt, far into the distance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s safflower, a transitional crop. Mohrgan explained it will help add some nutrients to the soil that the vineyards had used up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really good for the soil health, for its porosity, all those other fun things,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Transitioning crops is a yearslong process. After the grape harvest this past fall, they ripped out the vines. For several months, they planted safflower in its place. By this time next year, the safflower will be swapped out for the new permanent crop, likely olives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The process was made possible with the aid of a regional government initiative, the Ag Burn Alternatives Grant Program, that paid to help remove the vines in an environmentally friendly way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that the program is really great because [it] saves you some money,” she said. “Getting your tax dollars back, right?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mohrgan and her family are keenly aware of what the government is — and isn’t — doing to help farmers like them. Even as they spoke with a reporter, Bruce got an alert on his phone and pulled up a livestream of a state Assembly hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12087150\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12087150\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260610_LodiWine_GC-3-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260610_LodiWine_GC-3-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260610_LodiWine_GC-3-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260610_LodiWine_GC-3-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bruce Fry, left, and his daughter Mohrgan Fry, right, examine grape clusters at their ranch Mohr-Fry Ranches, a six-generation family farming operation since 1855, in Lodi on June 10, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The hearing focused on \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260ab1585\">AB 1585\u003c/a>, a bill that would require wines to be made with 100% American grapes if vintners want to use an “American” designation on the label.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Fry family and many other growers in the state say it will stop wineries from blending in cheaper foreign grapes. They also hope it will encourage them to buy from American growers, most of which are in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For 40 minutes, Mohrgan held the phone on the hood of her blue Chevy truck. She and her dad watched intently as assemblymembers debated the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, the committee members voted to move the bill along to the next stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hopefully this bill keeps going, keeps rolling,” Mohrgan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Baby steps,” Bruce said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the bill does pass, it might alleviate one of the industry’s challenges. But there’s a long way to go if grape growers and vintners are to fully bounce back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet many growers like the Frys remain optimistic. They feel connected to grapes and believe the industry could be turning the corner soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the wine grape region, [and] it’s going to stay that way, but it’s just, it’s not going to be as big as what it was before,” Bruce said. “I think change is hard, but change makes things better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12087158\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12087158\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260610_LodiWine_GC-26-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1384\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260610_LodiWine_GC-26-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260610_LodiWine_GC-26-KQED-160x111.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260610_LodiWine_GC-26-KQED-1536x1063.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A peacock walks through a vineyard at Mohr-Fry Ranches in Lodi on June 10, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mohrgan said she feels encouraged by both the older generation’s willingness to pivot and her generation’s fresh ideas. 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One of the deadlines for producers is Monday.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2 class=\"ArtP-headline\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kvpr.org/local-news/2026-05-27/a-tug-of-war-for-the-identity-of-the-party-why-a-valley-congressional-race-is-key-for-democrats\">\u003cstrong>‘A tug of war for the identity of the party’ – why a Valley congressional race is key for Democrats\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One of the country’s most competitive primary races for Congress this year is a swing district in Central California, where Democrats are hoping to flip a seat long held by Republican David Valadao.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District 22, which stretches across parts of four counties in California’s rural and agricultural Central Valley, is politically purple. Even though Democratic voters have held a slight majority in this district for many years, Valadao has won six of the last seven congressional elections here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But statewide redistricting last year, which rewrote California’s congressional district maps, is expected to have made this district even more favorable for Democrats. And with less than a week until the primary on June 2, the party’s two candidates are competing for who can appeal to the most voters – as the national Democratic party contemplates its own identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those candidates is Randy Villegas, a political science professor at a local community college – College of the Sequoias – and an elected trustee of the Visalia Unified School District. On a recent night canvassing in the Kings County town of Hanford, Villegas’s messages advocating for universal healthcare and suspending federal gas taxes seemed to resonate with voters. When he asked them if he could count on their votes, many said yes – and some even said they had already voted for him before submitting their ballots early.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the trail, Villegas says he refuses to accept campaign contributions from political action committees (PACs) funded by corporations. “I’m proud to be the only candidate in this race that has never touched a corporate PAC check, and I never will, because I want to be committed to our communities and not corporate interests,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California state Assemblymember Dr. Jasmeet Bains is also running for the Democratic nomination in District 22. She represents part of this district in the state legislature and is also a family doctor. “It’s time we elect the physician to Congress,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Sacramento, Bains has voted for Democratic priorities like access to abortion rights and public school funding. But she also bucked her party on some prominent issues, including by voting against Democratic redistricting and a legislative effort to restrict oil industry profits. She says she listens to her constituents, many of whom voted for President Trump. “The people that represent the Valley understand the importance of standing up for the Valley, not their party,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing she and Villegas have in common is that they both scold Valadao for his 2025 vote to slash Medicaid funding through the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill, even though his district has one of the highest Medicaid enrollments in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Deadline for single-use packaging approaches\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Since the midcentury, the production of plastics has increased hundreds of times. It’s found in remote arctic wildlife and babies’ poop. Production is expected to triple in the next 25 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is trying to halt the trend. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published in \u003ca href=\"https://www.lodinews.com/news/article_ca83de23-bdaf-43b4-ae33-c552240f73a8.html\">the Lodi News-Sentinel\u003c/a> and has been edited for KQED.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/category/sports\">wrestlers\u003c/a> clad in neon windbreakers and leopard print pants climbed onto a square-shaped platform while A-ha’s 1985 hit “Take on Me” blared. A floodlight illuminated puffs of breath as they tangled with their opponents on a chilly February night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Razzle Dazzle, the ’80s-themed duo on stage, is a hometown favorite at these World Wrestling Entertainment-style monthly events in the heart of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/central-valley\">Central Valley’s\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-joaquin-county\">San Joaquin County\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That night, they sparred with another tag-team duo called Monstars, Inc. One half of the duo, Moizilla, wearing a black lizard tail and piercing white contact lenses, lifted one of the hometown heroes in the air and triumphantly threw him onto his back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/209dragonsden/\">209 Dragon’s Den\u003c/a>, a breeding ground for wrestling talent just east of Lodi. Wedged between a private home, a plant nursery and a barn, this backyard venue is one of the humbler sites of hundreds nationwide in the independent wrestling circuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Independent wrestling is typically focused more on uplifting the sport than making money. The Dragon’s Den, for example, charges around $20 per adult ticket and $5 for kids. Some of that money goes back to the wrestlers who perform. But to really make a living out of it, the wrestlers hope to sign a contract with major promotions like the WWE or take their acts abroad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12076566\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031226_DRAGONDEN-_GH_003-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12076566\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031226_DRAGONDEN-_GH_003-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031226_DRAGONDEN-_GH_003-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031226_DRAGONDEN-_GH_003-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031226_DRAGONDEN-_GH_003-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“Big MF” Matt Freeman, center, owner and trainer of the 209 Dragon’s Den, speaks with first-time wrestler Peter Kuzmitski, left, as Paras Singh prepares nearby on March 12, 2026, in Lodi. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re providing something that’s raw and authentic and is not filtered by all the bulls—,” owner Matt Freeman said. “[It’s a place to] get drawn in and forget about all the things in your life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freeman came to wrestling late in life, in his 40s, after a divorce. Soon after, he set up a wrestling ring in his backyard and started a training group that became the 209 Dragon’s Den. In the past year, it has since burgeoned into a more official promotion, hosting shows that have attracted audiences and opponents from throughout the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freeman said he has a soft spot for the sport’s underdogs: the scrawny, nerdy or older wrestlers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really get excited for those people that people thought would’ve never been able to do it,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But to become top-caliber wrestlers, they must first learn how to develop a convincing character.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Hector Madrigal, aka “Razzle” or “Dazzle”\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Just as in the top tiers of professional wrestling, the outcomes of these matches are scripted. But just because the result is planned, it doesn’t mean the holds, throws — or spirit — are fake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like method actors, the wrestlers tap into real parts of themselves to make their performances believable.[aside postID=arts_13981646 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/250904_FULLQUEER_GH-33-KQED.jpg'] “A lot of times, when we’re in the ring, we just get in our heads. We need to get out of our heads, get in our hearts to really get to that next level,” said Hector Madrigal, one half of Razzle Dazzle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he’s not competing, he’s a secretary at a Lodi elementary school, a job where he’s a lot calmer than his wrestling character.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m just always behind … the computer, ordering stuff, doing a bunch of paperwork. But I do interact with the children,” he said. “Maybe a little of my Razzle Dazzle side comes out when I’m interacting with the kids.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the ring, he’s much more “bombastic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[I] emphasize everything that’s in my heart,” he said. “I try to put it out so the crowd can see what I’ve been holding inside.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Paras Singh, aka “Punjabi Papi” or “The All-American”\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Toward the end of the night, an announcer bellowed into the microphone as the crowd waited eagerly for one of their favorite wrestlers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He is the only king that stands in this ring. He is every lady’s habibi: The Punjabi Papi!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lodi local Paras Singh strutted through billowing curtains and along the front row of the crowd to high-five cheering fans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12076567\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031226_DRAGONDEN-_GH_006-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12076567\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031226_DRAGONDEN-_GH_006-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031226_DRAGONDEN-_GH_006-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031226_DRAGONDEN-_GH_006-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031226_DRAGONDEN-_GH_006-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paras Singh tapes his wrist before training at the 209 Dragon’s Den gym on March 12, 2026, in Lodi. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He climbed atop the ropes onstage, gesturing for the crowd to get loud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But before Singh could do too much preemptive celebrating, he was face-to-face with Reno-based wrestler David Luster, who’s nearly twice Singh’s size and age.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The match was full of plot twists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Singh started strong, landing his signature drop kick to Luster’s face. But Luster retaliated, knocking Singh down again and again. Just when it seemed that Luster would earn an easy win, he kicked the referee. That move got him disqualified, and Singh won by default.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the crowd booed that outcome, the pair set up for a rematch. Luster knocked Singh down to his back, where he remained motionless for several minutes. Then, hometown villain group “The 209 Kliq” stormed the stage and stole Singh’s championship belts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, it was unclear who had prevailed. What was clear was the crowd’s enthusiasm — heckling and cheering from the edges of their plastic folding chairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Connecting with the audience through compelling characters and storylines is the point, the wrestlers at 209 Dragon’s Den said.[aside postID=news_12077101 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260310-UnhousedMail-02-BL_qed.jpg'] Singh has been performing recently as “Punjabi Papi,” playing off his Indian heritage. But he started as “The All-American.” With that character, he wanted to show off his background as an Army soldier. It worked for a while, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People loved … a hero that’s all good,” he said. “But you become one-dimensional in that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With his new character, he gets to show off more of his personality. Singh said it’s who he wanted to be when he was younger. Someone who’s admired for their ethnic identity, instead of bullied for it. Someone with confidence and swagger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t have to be an all-good hero. I could have layers now,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Growing up, Singh always wanted to be a wrestler. When he came home to Lodi at age 23 after serving active duty in the Army, he found the Dragon’s Den and thought, “Why not just go for it?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three years later, he’s headlining shows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m just a kid with a dream,” he said. “A little brown boy from Lodi, California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like many of his fellow indie wrestlers, Singh has aspirations of making wrestling a full-time gig. To reach that goal, he spends most weeknights training under Dragon’s Den head coach, Michael Hayashi.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Michael Hayashi, aka “The Angry Dragon”\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Nicknamed “The Angry Dragon,” Hayashi has performed for over two decades. His character was inspired by martial arts stars like Bruce Lee — and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I lean on the things I loved when I was a kid,” he said. “Basically, Michelangelo from Ninja Turtles. Or Raphael, depending on the situation. Hardly ever, Donatello. Though sometimes Leonardo.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceTemp\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>He said he was initially drawn to wrestling as an outlet for his teenage angst.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12076573\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031226_DRAGONDEN-_GH_027-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12076573\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031226_DRAGONDEN-_GH_027-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031226_DRAGONDEN-_GH_027-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031226_DRAGONDEN-_GH_027-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031226_DRAGONDEN-_GH_027-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wrestlers train inside the ring at the 209 Dragon’s Den on March 12, 2026, in Lodi. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I used to have a chip on my shoulder,” Hayashi said. “Maybe I was even a little crazy, like trying to hurt myself almost, and prove that I could even belong in the ring.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But his relationship with his wrestling persona is different these days, now that he’s almost 40.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Instead of trying to fake a character that I used to play, now I’m just showing you more of my true self,” he said. “To be honest, I’m not really an angry person anymore … And at this point now, I’m just kind of at the twilight of my career.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayashi’s coaching emphasizes both intense physical skills and doing deep internal work. The aim, he said, is that wrestling becomes an outlet for projecting your true self.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We try to, at the very least, find people’s strengths, turn them up to 11, and then, if they can kind of balance out after that, then they can become the wrestler that they want to be,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Wrestlers by night\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On weeknights, Hayashi drives across town to the Dragon’s Den, where he trains the next generation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next to where the outdoor shows happen, there’s a wooden barn with a lofty ceiling. On a recent Wednesday night, a floodlight illuminated the practice ring inside. A dozen wrestlers stretched on mats or jabbed at a punching bag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given the theatrics of the sport, audiences often think wrestling doesn’t really hurt and that there’s little skill involved. But the wrestlers here, many fresh off a weightlifting session or nursing injuries, said that couldn’t be further from the truth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12076570\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031226_DRAGONDEN-_GH_022-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12076570\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031226_DRAGONDEN-_GH_022-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031226_DRAGONDEN-_GH_022-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031226_DRAGONDEN-_GH_022-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031226_DRAGONDEN-_GH_022-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Razzle Dazzle duo Hector Madrigal, left, and Christopher Pontilo pose on a ladder outside the 209 Dragon’s Den on March 12, 2026, in Lodi. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As they warmed up, Hayashi took the opportunity to talk about the concept of trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re always going to assume that our opponents are not trying to put us in the hospital, that we’re trying to have a good time,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the next two hours, the wrestlers hopped into the ring one by one. 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Though sometimes Leonardo.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceTemp\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>He said he was initially drawn to wrestling as an outlet for his teenage angst.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12076573\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031226_DRAGONDEN-_GH_027-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12076573\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031226_DRAGONDEN-_GH_027-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031226_DRAGONDEN-_GH_027-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031226_DRAGONDEN-_GH_027-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/031226_DRAGONDEN-_GH_027-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wrestlers train inside the ring at the 209 Dragon’s Den on March 12, 2026, in Lodi. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I used to have a chip on my shoulder,” Hayashi said. “Maybe I was even a little crazy, like trying to hurt myself almost, and prove that I could even belong in the ring.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But his relationship with his wrestling persona is different these days, now that he’s almost 40.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Instead of trying to fake a character that I used to play, now I’m just showing you more of my true self,” he said. “To be honest, I’m not really an angry person anymore … And at this point now, I’m just kind of at the twilight of my career.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayashi’s coaching emphasizes both intense physical skills and doing deep internal work. 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"content": "\u003cp>The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has agreed to pay $1.9 million to settle a lawsuit filed by 13 women who say correctional officers injured them during a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12004368/like-a-war-zone-prison-officers-used-unprecedented-force-in-august-attack-incarcerated-women-say\">mass use-of-force incident\u003c/a> at the Central California Women’s Facility in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plaintiffs say they suffered seizures, respiratory distress and long-term vision problems after officers used batons, physical force and chemical agents on them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I couldn’t breathe. 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Punishment ranged from transfers to termination, CDCR said, but the department has not yet responded to a public records request for disciplinary documents related to the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993411\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1742px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993411\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-1322060041_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1742\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-1322060041_qed.jpg 1742w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-1322060041_qed-800x612.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-1322060041_qed-1020x781.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-1322060041_qed-160x122.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-1322060041_qed-1536x1175.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1742px) 100vw, 1742px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Incarcerated people stand together in a yard at Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla, Madera County. \u003ccite>(Lea Suzuki/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12004477/incarcerated-women-say-officers-used-unprecedented-force-in-august-attack\">Aug. 2, 2024\u003c/a>, incident began when officers removed more than 150 women from their cells and locked them in the dining hall while staff conducted a large-scale search of their cells. As temperatures in the Chowchilla facility climbed to more than 100 degrees and time wore on, the women began to ask for water, food and medication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prison officials have said that the incarcerated population “became disruptive.” Officers used physical force, batons and chemical agents to “stop the incident,” according to a review from the Office of the Inspector General.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The complaint claims the women were complying with the officers’ orders and that the force was excessive and unnecessary. It also alleges that some women were denied or delayed medical care after being injured, leaving them with lasting physical and psychological harm.[aside postID=news_12004368 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/CentralCaliforniaWomensFacility-1020x816.jpg']A total of 109 incarcerated persons were medically evaluated, CDCR said, and three were transported to an outside medical facility for a short time. In the wake of the incident, CDCR also said it made mental health staff and resources available to those affected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Staff were also retrained after the incident on how to respond to alarms and on the appropriate use of force, according to CDCR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The women involved in the suit have a broader claim about this incident as well, that it was retaliation for sexual assault complaints that they had filed against correctional staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The women’s prison in Chowchilla has been plagued by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11786495/metoo-behind-bars-new-records-shed-light-on-sexual-abuse-inside-state-womens-prisons\">reports of sexual assault for years\u003c/a>. In one high-profile case, at least 22 women accused correctional officer Gregory Rodriguez of sexual abuse dating back to 2014. The state ultimately paid millions of dollars to settle those claims. 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In response to the lawsuits, the department approved 402 investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Department of Justice is also investigating allegations of sexual abuse and staff misconduct at California women’s prisons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12003275\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12003275\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/USDeptofJusticeGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/USDeptofJusticeGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/USDeptofJusticeGetty-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/USDeptofJusticeGetty-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/USDeptofJusticeGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/USDeptofJusticeGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/USDeptofJusticeGetty-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The U.S. Department of Justice has launched a civil rights investigation into staff sexual abuse allegations at two women’s prisons in Chowchilla and Chino, following a series of lawsuits and similar abuses at federal facilities like FCI Dublin, which was closed due to widespread misconduct. \u003ccite>(J. 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The shooting Saturday took place at a children’s birthday party.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2 class=\"entry-title entry-title--with-subtitle\">\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2025/11/immigration-california-farms/\">\u003cstrong>How Fear Of Trump’s Immigration Blitz Is Changing Life In California Farm Towns\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As this year’s harvest ends, the small Central Valley towns that rely on migrant or undocumented labor to survive are themselves forced to imagine the end of a way of life. The worry here is the workers might not return next year, at least not in the numbers that sustain local economies and power the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov/wordpress/?p=29277\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$60 billion agricultural industry\u003c/a>, which grows three-fourths of the fruits and nuts consumed in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/tag/donald-trump/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Trump administration\u003c/a> has pledged to carry out the largest deportation program in American history. They have, so far, mostly left the agricultural industry alone. But Trump and his advisers \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/08/trump-teased-a-solution-for-farmers-its-likely-not-coming-soon-00498932\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">have wavered\u003c/a> on whether to protect farms from \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/tag/immigration/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">immigration raids\u003c/a>, so the seasonal workers and their employers will have to wait and see.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Small farm towns in the Central Valley are similar in their seasonal economics to a beach town on the East Coast: Both swell in summer with a population boom, then dig in for a slow winter. Firebaugh City Manager Ben Gallegos said the town of 4,000 grows to 8,000 people in the summer, then empties out after the harvest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story plays out in the numbers, but already this year’s numbers tell a different tale. In the second quarter of the year, which runs from April 1 to June 30, total taxable transactions in Firebaugh were down 29% from the same quarter last year, according to the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration. In nearby Chowchilla, total taxable receipts are down 21% in the second quarter of this year compared to the same period last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People don’t want to shop or go out to eat, Gallegos said. The city of Firebaugh is staring down cuts to its police force, its parks and its senior center. In September, the appearance of county probation officers dressed in green fatigues caused waves of panicked Whatsapp texts. Some people went into hiding. The food bank in Firebaugh used to serve about 50 families. Today, at weekly distributions behind city hall, that number is up to 150. When it’s over, volunteers take the remaining food boxes to families who are too afraid to leave their homes. “We need those individuals to drive our community,” Gallegos said. “They’re the ones that eat at our local restaurants, they’re the ones that shop at our local stores. 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Detectives believe the gunfire continued outside and there may have been multiple shooters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eleven people were also wounded, with at least one in critical condition, he said. No one was in custody by Sunday evening, and the sheriff urged anyone with information to contact his office with tips, cellphone video or witness accounts. “This is a time for our community to show that we will not put up with this type of behavior, when people will just walk in and kill children,” Withrow said. “And so if you know anything about this, you have to come forward and tell us what you know. If not, you just become complacent and think this is acceptable behavior.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheriff’s spokesperson Heather Brent said earlier that investigators believe it was a “targeted incident.” Officials did not elaborate on why authorities believe it was intentional or who might have been targeted. 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That includes the Central Valley, where agriculture is king.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charles Meyer grows a cornucopia of crops on his 1500 acres in Stratford, in Kings County. “We’re growing wheat, we’re growing alfalfa, we’re growing almonds, we’re growing pistachios,” he said. Kings County is one of three agricultural counties that make up District 22, represented by Republican Congressman David Valadao. Farms bring in billions of dollars to the region and Meyer said he feels the elected leader in District 22 should represent the interests of the agriculture industry, like Valadao, a former dairy farmer. “You become attached to the ground. It’s like our boys in the military, they give their life for the country. We feel about our ground about like that,” Meyer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valadao is in danger of losing his seat if maps are redrawn and Prop 50 passes. Meyer said the new maps are an overreach, blaming Democrats for rising farming costs and slumping profits. 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He reiterated his position as recently as Sunday on his \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115441871289276790\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">Truth Social account. \u003c/a>Bonta said Monday that voter fraud is extremely rare in California, and Secretary of State Shirley Weber says \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/election-cybersecurity/trusted-information\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">\u003cu>on her website\u003c/u>\u003c/a> that mail-in ballots provide more election security, not less. Bonta said the election monitors are designed to bolster the president’s claim of election fraud and to sow fear among citizen immigrant voters. The attorney general promised to monitor the monitors. “Of course there will be observers of the election monitors — so-called election monitors — that the DOJ is sending. 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