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San Diego Wildfires Ravage Crops Around the Region

San Diego Wildfires Ravage Crops Around the Region

Tom Fudge: One of the victims of last week's fires was San Diego agriculture. It's a more than one-billion-dollar annual business. Two of San Diego’s big crops are avocados and cut flowers. Both of them were hit by this year's fires. In fact, some estimate that as much as 20 percent of local avocado groves were damaged or destroyed.

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Eric Larson,executive director of the San Diego County Farm Bureau.
Bob Atkins, agricultural commissioner and sealer of Weights and Measures for the County of San Diego.

If you suffered losses to your agricultural business due to fire in 2007, you can report it to the County of San Diego.