At the same time, growers and processors will be faced with the harvest demands of many of the state's perishable food crops. Co-ops, consumers and utilities alike are bracing for the worst. This summer will be worse than anything we've gone through so far. The consequences of California's energy problems are far-reaching. What caused California's energy crisis is open to heated debate.
Critics point to the state's flawed energy deregulation policy.
Everyone is pointing fingers these days. What matters now, though, is just getting through the crisis. And for the state's agricultural co-ops, that hasn't been easy. Today, the Land O'Lakes plant in Tulare is running with bated breath. By early March, the blackouts had diminished.