FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Late-summer rain hitting the Central Valley has already started to cause problems for multiple crops around the region - crops, including raisins, one of agriculture's biggest money makers.

For those left exposed to the elements, the consequences can be catastrophic.

“You can get what’s called slip skins, like where the skin comes off of the berry, and that really causes severe damage," said Steven Cardoza, owner of Cardoza & Cardoza Farming Co. in Fresno County. "You also get embedded sand when they’re in the process of drying, and that rain is pelting those berries, it’s pushing the sand into the skin," explained Cardoza.

Cardoza says while things could have been worse, they certainly weren't unscathed.

“Probably around a third of all of our raisin

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