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Posted: 2020-09-18T09:45:19Z | Updated: 2020-09-21T17:50:54Z

California, Oregon and Washington are all suffering from raging wildfires this year. Over 3 million acres have burned in 2020 in California alone, while it took just one week this month to decimate over a million acres in Oregon and more than 790,000 acres in Washington, leaving a trail of devastation and loss of life.

With the land ablaze around them, farms in the West Coast region have been struggling including in the agricultural powerhouse of California, which grows almost 50% of the fruits, nuts and vegetables that Americans consume.

We spoke to West Coast farmers to learn how they are dealing with the crisis and to find out what you can do to help these farmers, who produce the food we eat each day.