Seed alfalfa growers reported damage in their fields due to gophers and mice. Sugar beet fields were thinned and weeded. Grape growers applied herbicides or utilized french plows to control weeds in their vineyards. Young shoots on grapes vines were about one to two inches long. Almond orchards and grape vineyards were irrigated.
Fruit set in peach, plum, and nectarine orchards appears to be heavy.
Fruit thinning had started in some apricot orchards. Growers were pruning pomegranates. Fig trees and kiwi fruit vines have started to leaf out. Pistachios were exported to Luxembourg. The navel orange harvest should finish in the next two weeks. .