Peach trees stood lined in rows and stretched across the 20-acre plot of farmland north of Marysville, their wayward branches either lying on the ground or still reaching outward and upward, the ideal ...

Workers sort apricots at the Del Monte Foods cannery in Modesto, California, in 2009. John Holland Del Monte Foods will close its Modesto fruit cannery, a loss of about 600 year-round jobs and 1,200 ...