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California’s raisin growers expected 2016 would be a lighter year after a bountiful harvest in 2015, and found production was down 10 to 50 percent, averaging about 20 percent less than last year’s harvest. A number of issues may have factored into the low production, including adverse weather hurting bud development, replacement of raisin acreage with more profitable crops, water stress after years of drought, or insect threats. On the bright side, sugar levels seemed to be higher, resulting in better quality raisins. Western Farm Press (Minneapolis, Minn.), Sept. 21, 2016