Less acreage but clean fall melon crop in Yuma
The transition on cantaloupes and honeydew melons has begun from northern California to Yuma, Arizona. “Monday was our first harvest on fall cantaloupes and we just finished up northern California watermelons last week and started in Mexico this week as well,” says Daren Van Dyke of Brawley, CA-based Five Crowns.
While there were rains during the first part of the growing
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