Although frost has already made its appearance in fields across the eastern Coachella Valley, farmers are faring fairly well this year.
An unseasonably warm fall brought many of the crops to harvest two weeks earlier than usual, allowing growers to clear their fields just in the nick of time.
The first real frost of the season came Saturday night – about three weeks later than the first frost of the winter of 2013.
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