Lodi

Here I am, the farmer boy thinking about Lodi, and he’s the downtown guy talking about drugs.

I got to know all these towns like Dixon and Davis, and I heard my parents talk about Lodi.

When he got done with his set, I went over and asked the gentleman, “������ was that song you were doing? Was it called ‘Lodi’?”

That means about 400,000 tons of winegrapes were left on the vines to rot, much of that in Lodi in the upper San Joaquin Valley, home to vast acreages of high-production grapes for cheaper wine that are more susceptible to import competition.

Craig Ledbetter, a third generation farmer who owns and manages about 18,000 acres of winegrapes from Mendocino to Santa Barbara, says he left more than 10% of the grapes in Lodi unpicked last year.