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Auggie

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3. Some growers will have tough times, others not so much

Reply to hrmjustin (Reply #2)

Sat Feb 22, 2014, 01:45 PM

Feb 2014

Depends on their location and own storage situations. We're getting more rain in the north (Napa, Sonoma, Mendocino counties) than the Central Valley, so vines have a decent head start for bud break and shoot growth. From there out everything is watered via drip irrigation.

Growers with their own reservoirs that collect rain and runoff are in good shape; those who can legally tap into local rivers and replenish their own reservoirs should be okay with another big storm (forecast WO 2-24).

I don't know the scenario for Livermore Valley, Monterey County, Central Coast, Central Valley and Temecula. But I can guess it's pretty tenuous.

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