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KVPR and 1A Virtual Event: When natural disaster strikes agriculture

This farmland along the Kaweah River north of the Tulare County City of Exeter was one of many areas to be inundated by flooding after heavy rains in mid-March.
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This farmland along the Kaweah River north of the Tulare County City of Exeter was one of many areas to be inundated by flooding after heavy rains in mid-March.

Crops and cattle are some of the victims of heavy rainfall in Central California. KVPR and 1A are teaming up to ask what can be done to help farmers during natural disasters.

If you’re a farmer in California or elsewhere in the country, what are your biggest concerns about our changing environment? Leave your questions and comments below and we'll get to them during a live, digital engagement event on Tuesday, May 30, from 2 to 3 p.m. EST / 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. PST.

Watch the event live here.

Guests:

  • Dennis Hutson, fruit and vegetable farmer in Allensworth, CA
  • Tricia Stever Blattler, executive director, Tulare County Farm Bureau
  • Paul Towers, executive director, Community Alliance with Family Farmers

Moderator: KVPR reporter Kerry Klein

This show discussion is part of 1A’s “Remaking America” project looking at how our government is – and is not – working for everyone. It’s a partnership with six public radio stations, including KVPR. Remaking America is funded in part by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Kerry Klein is an award-winning reporter whose coverage of public health, air pollution, drinking water access and wildfires in the San Joaquin Valley has been featured on NPR, KQED, Science Friday and Kaiser Health News. Her work has earned numerous regional Edward R. Murrow and Golden Mike Awards and has been recognized by the Association of Health Care Journalists and Society of Environmental Journalists. Her podcast Escape From Mammoth Pool was named a podcast “listeners couldn’t get enough of in 2021” by the radio aggregator NPR One.