SAN FRANCISCO — Frank Imhof, a Sunol cattleman is checking the weather constantly. If he doesn’t get rain soon, “lots of people are going to be out of a job,” he says.
He’s considering culling nearly 40 percent of his breeding herd and selling calves that are four to five months short of their market weight, because he doesn’t have enough grass in his pastures to feed them.
On Friday, amid California’s driest year on record, Gov. Jerry Brown declared a drought emergency in the state. As days pass without snow or rain, dairymen, farmers and other livestock producers are finding themselves in the same predicament as Imhof. And without water to irrigate, produce growers fear they will have to leave some fields fallow.
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