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Pete Oliver likes to say that his small green Army jeep is older than he is, and he’s 76. But it still runs well after a few starts, and he uses it to drive around his small farm west of downtown Fresno. On this day, he takes the jeep out to where his watermelons are fading in the heat. “See that little light area in the middle of the melons there,” he says pointing to white spots on the leaves that have been baked by the sun. Oliver has farmed for most of his life. His parents bought a farm in Kingsburg when he was just a baby. By age 7, he was picking cotton for them; he knows how hot San Joaquin Valley summers can get. But this heatwave, he says, is close to unbearable. “The sun is just really, really beating down,” he says. “It’s hot out here now and it’s probably 12 o’clock. At 2 or 3 o’clock, it’s really smoking out here.” Oliver and other farmers worry about the high temperatures July is bringing and whether some of their crops, especially their melons, will survive the
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