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The people who feed the world can hurt themselves in the process. Friday, the Stanislaus County Farm Bureau put on its eighth annual safety seminar to remind farm owners and workers to be careful.
Drought may or may not have returned for most Californians, who can get by on reservoir storage before the real impacts hit. For cattle ranchers without irrigation, drought has hit fast and it is starting to hurt. A prolonged dry spell could sharply reduce beef production in Stanislaus and nearby counties.