Fall fires, winter freeze, March rains still vex CA farmers. Cover crops.

Yes, we welcome the current bout of late season rain. But it’s spring, and California’s farmers are itching to get into the fields. We look at what one rice grower is doing while waiting for the fields to dry. The threat of Southern California mudslides from March rains, on top of last December’s Thomas Fire, has avocado growers in Santa Barbara and Ventura counties worried. We talk with one grower who’s been assessing damage to his orchards. What are the benefits of cover crops for attracting pollinators to your farm? We get the details from a University of California expert. The latest ag production numbers are in. Can you name California’s Top 5 agricultural products? Get your bets in now, we’ll tell you later…on this week’s KSTE Farm Hour.