Field preparation continues for the 2001 cotton crop. Pre-emergent herbicides and soil fumigants were being applied to cotton and tomato fields. There appears to be an increase in cotton acreage for next year's crop due to the decrease in tomato plantings. The sugar beet harvest is essentially over. Alfalfa hay cutting has ceased due to poor weather conditions.
Some fields continue to be sheeped off.
New alfalfa fields are being prepared for next year's harvest. Grape growers are planting cover crops, adding soil amendments, and fertilizing their vineyards. Pruning still continues in vineyards and cuttings are being shredded. Thompson Seedless and Red Globe table grapes were shipped from cold storage and should be finishing soon. Growers continue to prune and apply herbicides to stone fruit orchards.