Dave Kranz

BAKERSFIELD, CA - AUGUST 09, 2011 - Farm workers bringing in buckets full of red bell peppers to a packing tent at a farms in the Bakersfield area, August 09, 2011. In 2005, after several farmworkers died of heat exhaustion, California enacted landmark regulations requiring employers to provide what ...

Clear skies and mild temperatures have meant that farmers who have water are harvesting abundant crops much earlier than they normally would have, said Dave Kranz, spokesman for the California Farm Bureau Federation, a nonprofit organization representing farmers and ranchers. "The drought has ...

Even as the worst drought in decades ravages California, and its cities face mandatory cuts in water use, millions of pounds of thirsty crops like oranges, tomatoes and almonds continue to stream out of the state and onto the nation's grocery shelves. But the way that California farmers have pulled off that ...