"Upset is an understatement. I mean, we just don't know what to do. We're sick to our stomachs," said Sarb Johl, a peach farmer in Marysville. Normally, there'd be more than a dozen people working to prune the peach trees on Johl's farm and make sure they're all ready to start bearing fruit. But instead, it's just one guy in a tractor taking them out.
Farmers contracted with Del Monte are ripping out peach trees to make room for a different crop they'll be able to sell.
But even then, alternative crops need to grow and can take up to six years before farmers see a return.
Johl said it's a trickle-down effect that will impact farmers, consumers, truckers, fuel companies, and, most of all, the laborers.
Instead, a few laborers were hired to tear out the trees. The trees are ground up into small pieces and reworked into the ground to lay a fresh slate for something else.
Johl said he's going to have to rip out some trees he planted only two years ago that he expected would produce for more than two decades.
A group of local lawmakers is calling on the U.S. Department of Agriculture for assistance for farmers. They're asking for $9 million to help farmers transition their crops.
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