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Vivienne Aguilar speaks with Thomas Mangrich, a field representative for OG Packing and Cold Storage Company facility in Stockton, Calif. He advises cherry and walnut farmers around the state and guides them into their harvest seasons. In the last few years, extreme weather occurrences like record-breaking heat waves, downpours, and droughts have thrown off harvest seasons. 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That makes the fruit soft. So the weather directly impacts cherries<\/span><\/p>\n If a hail comes through, The hail will rip through the leaves. It’ll look like shotgun blast went through there<\/span>,<\/span> right through the <\/span>lea<\/span>ves.\u00a0 The hail will rip through the lea<\/span>ves<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n [Ambi]\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n My name is Thomas Mangrich. I go by Tom, and I work at OG Packing as a field representative for OG, and I work with the growers, and their commodities are cherries and walnuts.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The drought directly has an impact on the cherries, because most farms have wells, and they’re able to draw from the well. So the southern crops down from Bakersfield and Fresno area, a lot of these wells I’m talking about are starting to dry up because we just haven’t had the rain.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n We need rain.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n When we’re getting these extreme heat and I hear guys, old timers that I work with that are 80-90 years old saying they’ve never dealt with something like that Most people in this valley haven’t had to deal with the drought that we’re having.<\/span><\/p>\n [***Ambi] short\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n So they\u2019re pulling their weight <*** up for 3-5 seconds> and then they\u2019re unloading the walnuts into this pit\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n [sound of walnuts]<\/span><\/p>\n So in our department, we kind of joke that I’m the weatherman because of how closely I watch the weather and how much it directly affects the crops that we’re looking to harvest. So whether it be wind, rain, heat, drought, hail, all those things come in, come into play.<\/span><\/p>\n I have heard more often, let’s say in the last five years, guys talking about I don’t know if I can keep doing this, you know, more and more years after year, it’s okay, maybe next year, maybe next year, you know, and it just feels like especially weather related. I feel like every year there’s something new thrown at us and it’s, you know, like this year it was heat. But then couple of months before that, we’re talking about extreme freeze last year. And that downpouring rain we had in October directly affected the final chapter of walnuts for that year, because there were some fields that were unable to harvest because they just get stuck in the mud, they start molding and they’re unable to get into the field to harvest that product.<\/span><\/p>\n [ambi]<\/span><\/p>\n What we’re looking for is typically a light amber color, like a really light color. You can see this particular piece has been affected by the heat because it’s turned into like a combo or you can see it\u2019s like starting to discolor and shrivel up and that’s basically a direct result from the heat that we had.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n We see this every year, but we don’t see it as drastic every year. And we all know it came directly from that heat that we had.<\/span><\/p>\n [END SCENE]<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n I’ve had to tell guys to stop picking. They didn’t want to, but I had to. That’s really hard because you just, you’re basically going out and you’re explaining to a guy how if he continues to go, he’s going to lose money.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sometimes you see fruit on the tree that looks perfectly okay and they want to harvest it. It’s in their blood. And you just have to tell them, unfortunately, there’s no value in that product. And I would advise you as a friend, you know, and, you know, a client, that you should stop.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n We joke as a cherry grower you got to be a little crazy because, you know, you got to like to gamble because you’re definitely dealing with weather things that are out of your control.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n So you almost have to trick yourself into being optimistic. And I think it’s it’s a joke, but I still feel it kind of hurts a little bit. But we always say, okay, there’s always next year.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_toggle][et_pb_divider color=”#ed4441″ divider_position=”center” divider_weight=”3px” disabled_on=”off|off|off%22″ admin_label=”Divider: : DO NOT EDIT” _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” max_width=”150px” module_alignment=”center” height=”false” custom_margin=”||||false|false” custom_padding=”50px||||false|false” animation_style=”slide” animation_direction=”top” animation_delay=”100ms” animation_intensity_slide=”10%” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_divider][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”Section: Story Area” _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”10px||||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row column_structure=”2_5,3_5″ _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”17px|0px|3px|0px|false|false” collapsed=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”2_5″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Story Text” _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Arial||||||||” text_text_color=”#353535″ text_font_size=”18px” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n On a dirt road off California Highway 88 a packing facility in Stockton preps millions of cherries and walnuts for families around the world. During harvest season, thousands of people rely on this factory for work \u2014 but that work has increasingly been impacted by climate change.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201c<\/b>I work for the growers because I like when they win,\u201d said Thomas Mangrich, the field representative at OG Packing and Cold Storage Company.<\/span><\/p>\n Mangrich\u2019s job is to watch the weather and make predictions for farmers who plan to send produce to OG\u2019s packing facilities. <\/span><\/p>\n In October 2021, <\/span>Stockton was flooded<\/span><\/a> with almost five times the usual amount of rain it receives for the month, devastating walnut farmers.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThat downpour and rain we had in October directly affected the final chapter of walnuts for that year,\u201d Mangrich said. Some walnut orchards in the area couldn\u2019t be harvested because farmers simply couldn\u2019t get through the mud and into their fields. <\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”3_5″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/capradio2022.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2022\/10\/vivienne-01.jpg” alt=”A white man, in a blue flannel shirt, with sunglasses covering his forehead stands in front of three stacks of cubed yellow bags, marked with \u201cOG Nut Company\u201d logos. A single sack is almost as tall as the man, with three bags are in each stack. ” title_text=”vivienne-01″ _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text admin_label=”CAPTION TEXT” _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Tom Mangrich stands in front of packed sacks of walnuts that have been packed in October 2022.<\/p>\n VIVIENNE AGUILAR \/ NEXTGENRADIO<\/small>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Story Text” _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Arial||||||||” text_text_color=”#353535″ text_font_size=”18px” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Walnut yields are projected to <\/span>decline by 20%<\/span><\/a> in the next two decades.<\/span><\/p>\n Mangrich takes it personally.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n