420,000 Peach Trees Removed in California as Del Monte Files Bankruptcy

Added: 2026-05-10

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[00:04:57]Well, we're going to talk about something that happened with Del Monte.

[00:05:01]You know, many of these fruit and vegetable, especially if it's canned goods, many of them were around during the time of slavery in this country.

[00:05:16]And back then, they would have crops, use the slaves to grow crops, and then they would have to harvest the crops, and can everything.

[00:05:32]That was all done by slaves.

[00:05:35]So, when we talk about corporations and some of these insurance companies and banks, well, Del Monte was a full participant in using slaves along with many other companies that have been around for, you know, over a century.

[00:05:57]So, they went bankrupt.

[00:06:02]And look like they may not be coming back.

[00:06:09]Am I feeling bad? No, because of the way they rose these companies up off the backs of slaves? No, I don't feel bad that they're finally going out of business.

[00:06:23]Or they're not doing well now. I I really could care less.

[00:06:28]And yes, because of the war, the food industry will be hit.

[00:06:33]You know, well how is the food going to get around if it's not transported? So, of course it is going to hit, you know, any type of food industry.

[00:06:45]So, ladies and gentlemen, we're going to talk about them filing bankruptcy and they had a big patch of peaches, all these peach trees.

[00:07:00]420,000 peach trees out there in California.

[00:07:07]Well, since Del Monte went belly up, they are going to uproot all 420,000 trees.

[00:07:21]Because a corporation or somebody can't make money off of it now, so they're going to uproot these trees instead of keeping them. And you know, there's a lot of people that could use those peaches. You know, and it just is proof that this country never cared about underprivileged people or poor people.

[00:07:44]They would rather destroy something than give it to people that are in need.

[00:07:51]You know, it's just like supermarkets. I don't know if any of you know what supermarkets do with deli meat that don't sell, cheese that don't sell, produce that don't sell, they discard it.

[00:08:06]They throw it out in the dumpster.

[00:08:10]And the employees are told they're not allowed to give it to any people.

[00:08:18]So, they would rather trash it than give it to people that may be in that area that's starving.

[00:08:27]They don't care.

[00:08:29]You know, this probably is the most uncaring group of people that we've ever had in charge in this world's history. They don't care about nobody but themselves.

[00:08:43]They don't care about nothing above their wallet.

[00:08:48]And that's how they've always been.

[00:08:51]They've always been like this.

[00:08:53]So, that's what they're getting ready to do.

[00:08:56]They're going to uproot all those trees because they can't profit off of it.

[00:09:05]So, y'all, let me go ahead and share my screen so we can get started.

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[00:09:34]No, they they don't have any compassion.

[00:09:37]And you can tell y'all that is something that was passed down through the generations, that lack of compassion cuz that's how their forefathers were.

[00:09:47]That's how they were towards our people during chattel slavery. And that lack of compassion has been passed down through their generation.

[00:09:58]You know, they always tell us, "Oh, y'all always talk about slavery." Yeah, but we always see a lack of compassion out of them.

[00:10:05]And trust me, they passed that down through the generations and you can see how uncaring they really truly are. They don't care about outside of themselves.

[00:10:18]All right.

[00:10:20]Thank you for the ones, everybody.

[00:10:28]corrupt. And now California farmers are being forced to uproot 420,000 peach trees. That is not a typo. 50,000 tons of perfectly good peaches are sitting without a buyer in 2026, and the trees that grew them have to go. Here is why this stings so hard. California produces roughly 90% of all commercially canned peaches in America, and Del Monte was the anchor buyer holding the whole industry together. When they filed for Chapter 11, the California Canning Peach Association filed a $550 million bankruptcy claim covering contracts that were supposed to run all the way to 2044. Growers expect to recover far less than that. Meanwhile, foreign imports, mostly from China and Greece, are flooding in at around 100,000 tons a year, undercutting what local farmers could charge even if they found a new buyer. Replanting is not a quick fix, either. Stone fruit trees take 3 to 5 years to produce a commercial yield.

[00:11:17]California clingstone peach acreage has already collapsed more than 56% since 2004. When an entire American food industry disappears this fast, who actually wins, the consumer or just the importer? Follow for more breaking stories when they happen, explained in a minute. You better sit down or take a deep breath because what I'm getting ready to tell you is going to really upset you and you may do what I done when I heard about it and just start screaming.

[00:11:43]California farmers are being made to pull out to just destroy 420,000.

[00:11:51]I want you to hear 420,000 peach trees because Del Monte decided to go bankrupt overnight leaving these farmers with no one to sell these peaches to. Okay, I got you. I understand maybe a little bit. United States is like you know what, we'll give you $9 million. You Y'all split this $9 million and learn how to grow something else.

[00:12:11]Meanwhile, we have 14 million children in the United States starving. We have veterans starving. We have homeless people starving. We have low income, middle income starving and you were going to just say just pull these trees that's got all these peaches. Oh, it's just for canned peaches. Yeah, like the kind [clears throat] that you go to the store and you get your grandkids or you get your children or that you eat yourself those peaches, you know, in the fruit aisle.

[00:12:38]We're just going to get rid of them all.

[00:12:40]We're 420,000 trees of them. We're supposed to be living in the golden age. Do you remember that? Do you MAGAs remember that? We're living in the golden age right now where everybody's filing bankruptcy, where people are losing their lives, where people are losing their homes, their businesses, where people can't even afford to go get gas anymore.

[00:13:00]Putting food on grocery on credit cards, putting gas on credit cards, essential needs on credit cards. Remember the golden age? Where 420,000 fruit trees are being destroyed with starving children in the United States.

[00:13:19]>> [sighs] >> I was one of them children. I was one of them children that that had to go to the food bank.

[00:13:30]Where a parent her mother had to go to a food bank, you know, granted she was a piece of but where she had to go food bank and get food and you got the cans of peaches or jars of peaches, whatever. Yeah, I was one of them. Those save and feed children.

[00:13:46]You are telling me that the United States could come up with or try to come up with a billion dollars for a ballroom, but you can't buy this these uh peaches off these farmers in California?

[00:14:00]That way they can feed the starving in the United States?

[00:14:05]Is that what you really stand for? Is that what MAGA stands for? Is that what Trumpers stands for?

[00:14:12]Y'all this is beyond pathetic.

[00:14:18]It's beyond.

[00:14:25]What's up, everyone? As you can see, this orchard might look beautiful to the naked eye, but the people who really know can tell this orchard is abandoned.

[00:14:36]We're here in Sutter County, Northern California, and this here was a grower that had a contract with the Del Monte cannery.

[00:14:49]If you don't know, they filed for bankruptcy in 2025 and they're leaving growers without a solution on what to do with their trees.

[00:15:01]This is going to cause a big impact in the area because there's about 55,000 tons that have that don't have a buyer this next season.

[00:15:13]It's leaving a lot of people with out jobs.

[00:15:17]I am a farm labor contractor and we hire out many crews that depend on the peach harvest.

[00:15:28]And as you can tell, there's going to be a big drop in that industry.

[00:15:33]The canned fruit is shaking, and this is a crisis news story. So, Del Monte, everybody grew up with this. Everybody in America has seen or tasted some Del Monte uh prepackaged fruit mixes of any kind, cherries, sliced peaches, the mixes with the cherries and the pineapples and the pears. Do y'all know that Del Monte is closing? And that is leaving fruit farmers in total crisis. I got this stuff from the Localized app.

[00:16:03]This is the app that I go to to be able to find local food um like farmers' markets and local food and local farms in my area. Baby, they broke it You You know what the worst part, y'all?

[00:16:19]They can't see their judgment.

[00:16:22]They literally can't see their judgment.

[00:16:25]They have done everything to make sure the black farmer would never be successful in this country.

[00:16:34]They had stolen their land.

[00:16:38]They have ran them out of town.

[00:16:40]Mobs used to steal everything, their homes, their bank accounts, their livestock, their land, their crops.

[00:16:49]And now, look at what's happening to them. And I bet you all of these fruit and vegetable growers for Del Monte, I bet you not one was a black farmer. I bet every dime in my wallet, not one was a black farmer growing for Del Monte.

[00:17:10]And so, now this puts them out of commission, which means you're going to have more farms going down and going under in this country.

[00:17:25]But they sure don't see their judgment.

[00:17:29]It's all in the history, past and present. Cuz y'all still don't do those black farmers right to this very day.

[00:17:37]But you have this expectation that y'all should be able to do everything and keep food on your table and keep it going.

[00:17:45]No.

[00:17:46]No, there's a price to pay for all the rotten things that were done and that time is here.

[00:17:54]So, there is no more Del Monte, y'all.

[00:17:58]Now, one thing she said that is true, I remember Del Monte as a child going in the supermarket. I remember seeing the Del Monte cans on the shelf.

[00:18:07]And see, back then I did not know their history, but I know it now.

[00:18:13]And hey, good riddance, Del Monte. Good riddance.

[00:18:27]Now, this is sad and this is a forewarning to a lot of the agricultural culture in America. There's a lot to the story. Let's talk about it.

[00:18:37]Now, like I said, I got a lot of this from the Localized app on Instagram. The Localized app is a great place where I go find like local fresh egg farmers, and they'll give you a map where you're close to, show you exactly where that is. So, it's a great app. And they have a lot of food information, cuz I'm a foodie. I'm all about food history, food information. So, I follow all those type of pages. And they broke it down. They said, "Del Monte Foods in the US canned fruits business has collapsed following a bankruptcy in 2025."

[00:19:10]Now, you know a lot of this is going to be tied to what's going on in immigration. There's no people to pick the fruit.

[00:19:17]There's no for people to pick the fruit, handle those lands, people that have been working those lands and and working in the agricultural business prominently for years.

[00:19:29]They don't have any backup, their crops are going to waste. And what do you do with that stuff? You know, if it's not getting picked or if it's not getting harvested, you just have to file bankruptcy cuz everything's going to ish. Or it could even be from us having bad trade situations. You know, right now nobody's buying the soybeans. [clears throat] The soybean farmers are basically out of business. China refuses to buy the soybeans from us and they're getting them from like what was it? Brazil or somewhere else?

[00:19:58]They were getting it from like It wasn't Peru.

[00:20:03]They're just not getting them from the US.

[00:20:06]And because everybody's so upset with America, they're literally like, "We'll wait for, you know, Portugal, Brazil, whoever has soybeans, they'll get them to us slower than American will get them to us and we'll still wait just to not shop with you." That's how deep it's getting.

[00:20:25]So, they said as a part of the reconstruction, the company is shutting down its remaining California canning plants, including Modesto, California.

[00:20:34]So many people again out of a job that they probably had for 20, 40, 50 years. Del Monte? My grandpa's 98 and he probably definitely had some Del Monte fruits. They have been around. This is like a Campbell's, Campbell Soup.

[00:20:51]And it's not going to click to everybody the crisis that we're in until a Campbell Soup is closed. Do you see what I'm saying?

[00:20:59]The Modesto cannery closure will eliminate 800 Oh, excuse me. 18 thousand workers, showing that showing just how fragile the industrial food system is. So, this is a crisis, you guys. This is not good.

[00:21:15]Almost 2,000 workers without a job.

[00:21:19]Lord knows where they're going to go.

[00:21:21]It's just a mess.

[00:21:23]Although um Del Monte is described as a canned fruit company, they have other things. Peas and carrots, canned corn, canned green beans. They actually filed for bankruptcy in July of 2025 following a $1 billion debt load.

[00:21:43]They tried to file for Chapter 11. They tried to cover about 165 million of this. And they just got to go ahead and close. This company has been in business 139 years.

[00:21:55]Does this look like America's greater?

[00:21:58]You tell me.

[00:22:00]The company Del Monte declared bankruptcy recently. And in response to their bankruptcy, the company decided that they would have their employees destroy up to 400,000 peach trees. So, just think about that for a second. This is highlighting the predatory nature of capitalism. A company is going under and instead of allowing the trees to survive and exist and potentially still provide food for people, because a company can no longer profit on said commodity, they decide that it is no longer necessary and decide to destroy hundreds of thousands of trees that produce fruit. So, that is the sick nature of capitalism. It is a predatory system that is not meant to serve the people and we have to dismantle it.

[00:22:54]Because these sorts of companies doing this sort of like archaic destruction cannot be allowed to continue. It is actually unacceptable and unheard of.

[00:23:04]Like I I just can't even wrap my mind around the concept of destroying fruit-producing trees just because you can no longer profit on them. It's It's just sickening and mind-blowing. And capitalism, unchecked capitalism, has to be stopped at all costs because this cannot go on. It is not sustainable in any capacity.

[00:23:26]Well, help is on the way for peach farmers impacted by the closure of the Del Monte food facility in Stanislaus County. The Department of Agriculture is sending farmers more than $9 million to fund peach tree removal to help them transition. It's expected to cover the removal of more than 420,000 peach trees ahead of the 2026 harvest season. A bipartisan group led by US Senator Adam Schiff and Representatives Mike Thompson and David Valadao requested that aid.

[00:23:53]They say the closure of the Modesto facility has left growers across the state with nowhere to market their crops.

[00:24:36]the state of California. This left farmers with millions of pounds of peaches and no one to buy them. As a result, 420,000 peach trees are being ripped out of the ground across the state of California.

[00:24:50]Let that sink in. We are destroying food in a country where 14 million children, or one in five, are experiencing hunger.

[00:24:58]Why? Because they depend on corporations to buy it. Many of these are generational farmers who have had 20-year contracts with Del Monte and now they're being forced to fire their employees and they're being left with the bag. And what is Trump's USDA doing?

[00:25:13]They plan to give out $9 million to help these farmers who have only planted peaches to learn how to plant something else. This is the part of the economy we don't talk about. We bend to the will of giant corporations and then when they collapse, so do the communities.

[00:25:30]America in 2026 destroy food that could help feed 14 million hungry children, lose farms, and pay more at the grocery store. This is what happens when we rely on a fragile food system and it just collapses. Del Monte Foods filed bankruptcy last year and it just closed one of its final canneries and it's leaving fruit growers in crisis. The Modesto cannery closure will eliminate about 1,800 workers showing just how fragile the industrial food system is.

[00:25:57]We're not sure where these farmers and supply chain workers will go, but it shows the dangers that come with a food system so reliant on middle men. For every $1 you spend at the grocery store, the farmer gets just 11.8 cents right now. And that's before even including their cost. They really only keep 5.8 cents and everything else goes to the corporate entities like Del Monte and when they collapse, it endangers everything. But just imagine if we properly connected with our local farmers directly and gave them the full dollar. This is exactly what you can do with the Localized app and it would instantly cause massive corporations, processors, and retailers to crumble because they prey on a consolidated system that pressures growers into accepting the lowest possible prices.

[00:26:37]The reason farmers make so little money is because it goes to all these corporate entities that can pressure them into those prices. We have the power to fight back and it's as simple as giving them your money.

[00:26:52]Okay.

[00:26:57]Well, no more Del Monte.

[00:26:59]We'll see how many other one of these canning fruit and vegetable corporations will fall cuz I don't think it's only going to be Del Monte.

[00:27:10]I really don't.

[00:27:13]You know, this is unbelievable.

[00:27:17]But, I believe it. I'm not surprised they're going to dis- but they rather destroy a tree than to feed people.

[00:27:24]That's America.

[00:27:26]That is America.

[00:27:28]Thaddeus Peterson, thank you so much for the super chat. Can anyone say they're surprised by this?

[00:27:35]Typical wit- wickedness. Oh, no, I'm definitely not surprised. Oh, definitely not. You know, this is exactly what I expect from a devil.

[00:27:48]So, y'all, Thaddeus, thank you so much for your support for my channel. I deeply appreciate it.

[00:27:55]But, y'all, look, I I think when you walk in your supermarket, if there is some Del Monte, you probably will be looking at it for the last time.

[00:28:06]It will be officially gone now that they have gone completely under.

[00:28:13]And listen to those contracts. They gave farmers 20-year contracts. Do you know how well a black farmer could have done off of a 20-year contract? But, they were never given that same opportunity.

[00:28:27]That's why I don't feel sorry for these corporations because they were full participants in that mess of excluding black farmers.

[00:28:38]All of them are full participants. Every last one of them.

[00:28:47]Mhm.

[00:28:50]Yeah, well, let it fall apart.

[00:28:53]You know, look, it's on a foundation of lies, so none of it is going to stand at the end of the day. All of it is going to fall.

[00:29:02]You know?

[00:29:03]But, you know what I'm really looking forward to? I'm looking forward to seeing how this 250-year anniversary of America on the 4th of July, how that's going to turn out. I've been waiting for that for a long time.

[00:29:22]We'll see how it turns out.

[00:29:25]Mhm.

[00:29:27]Cuz I have a feeling Donald Trump ain't going to get the turnout he's looking for.

[00:29:34]And you don't know, it could be a lot of things. And you know, when people are saying, you know, it could be something that might happen around that time, and they may not have it at all, but we shall see. You know, he's building his ballroom and his arch that we don't need at all. I don't I I don't know anybody that needs a Donald Trump ballroom or an arch that look like it came out of the Third Reich. We don't need that mess.

[00:30:04]Waste of money.

[00:30:07]Waste of money. Wouldn't it be something if the Most High made it made a hurricane come or made it rain?

[00:30:15]>> [laughter] >> Cuz I mean, they're pouring a lot of money into this 250-year anniversary, and the Most High can rain on that parade, you know that.

[00:30:32]Mhm.

[00:30:39]Yeah, um old clip 70, I am not surprised. I am not surprised. They are literally sending out bulldozers to uproot all of these 420,000 trees.

[00:30:56]So, y'all, I'm going to go ahead and conclude.

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