Ray Yeung has been farming for 40 years in Sacramento, and his father farmed the land before him.
"It's hard to say exactly what happened," Yeung said. "It's the worst ever. It's the worst ever because we're getting the same price as my dad got in the 1970s — and at that point, my dad was paying 50 cents a gallon for diesel, was paying two dollars for wages, everything was just less expensive back then."
"It's mathematically impossible to even break even," Yeung said.
"There's a lot going on," Professor Sumner said. "The best year in history for the beef industry, the worst year that anyone can remember for the wine grape industry, and the others are somewhere in between."
For Yeung, it's not a matter of celebrating — it could help his survival.
Yeung has 2,500 acres of farmland he leases in Sacramento County.
He says he will likely give some of it up because he won't be able to afford to farm it all next year.
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