Sorry Del Monte, you did this to yourself. Your products have become less and less, yet you charge MORE AND MORE for the dubious label. These poor generational farmers..

Lynda

PS What do you want to bet that they re-open in a south of the border country... Maybe under a 'new' name.

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By Susana Guerrero,
Senior News Reporter
May 5, 2026

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Central California farmers are expected to gain up to $9 million in federal aid to help remove 420,000 clingstone peach trees following the closure of Del Monte Foods’ canneries earlier this year.

Del Monte permanently closed its Modesto and Hughson canneries in April after filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last July. The factory closures left hundreds of workers without a job while also leaving farmers in dire straits as they navigated what to do with their crops. In March, the Sacramento Bee reported that many Central California farmers had their 20-year contracts to grow peaches with Del Monte canceled while facing a $550 million loss in revenue.

The impacts pushed a delegation of California lawmakers to ask the U.S. Department of Agriculture to provide financial support to the fruit growers. Last week, California Sen. Adam Schiff and Reps. Mike Thompson and David Valadao announced in a news release that the USDA had approved their request to pay California farmers to remove around 3,000 acres of clingstone peach trees before the harvest season. “When a processing facility closes and 55,000 acres of fruit suddenly have nowhere to go — that’s not something a family farm can just absorb,” Thompson said in the news release.

Lodi-based Pacific Coast Producers purchased Del Monte’s fruit business earlier this year following a court approval to sell all its assets. Pacific Coast Producers offered low ball contracts to farmers to buy 24,000 tons of peaches, but over 50,000 tons would go unused.