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California farmer watches in pain as local winery dumps truckloads of his grapes. Why his only customer rejected him

California farmer watches in pain as local winery dumps truckloads of his grapes. Why his only customer rejected him

When Brandon Sywassink pulled into a Lodi winery with truckloads of freshly picked grapes, he thought he was delivering a year’s worth of work. It was the culmination of months spent pruning, watering and praying for good weather. Instead, he was told to dump them. “We had a handful of grapes, well, I might say, handful truckloads of grapes that …

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