The water came in a rush – tearing through planted rows of cabbage, broccoli and cauliflower before crashing into the tractors and farm equipment. Within hours, much of María Inés Catalán’s 41-acre (17-hectare) organic farm in Hollister, California, had disappeared under several feet of water…. Now, three months after a series of storms, Catalán and her family are still counting their losses…. A series of atmospheric river storms and widespread flooding this winter have wiped out hundreds of thousands of acres of farmland across California. But the state’s small-scale, immigrant farmers have been especially hard hit. After a drawn-out drought, widespread wildfires and heatwaves in recent years, family farms like Catalán’s had been struggling to get by even before the storms.

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