California farmer who sparked frenzied crowds with free nectarine stunt ordered to destroy fruit trees

A California farmer who made national headlines when he gave away thousands of nectarines for free lost his case over ownership of his nectarine crop in Fresno County Superior Court. The farmer Cesar Mora from Reedley was ordered to destroy his trees last week, and on Thursday, his weekslong trial with Giumarra Brothers Fruit Company in Southern California ended.
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A California farmer who made national headlines when he gave away thousands of nectarines for free lost his case over ownership of his nectarine crop in Fresno County Superior Court. The farmer Cesar Mora from Reedley was ordered to destroy his trees last week, and on Thursday, his weekslong trial with Giumarra Brothers Fruit Company in Southern California ended. Mora claimed agriculture giant Giumarra has blocked him from packing or selling the stone fruit amid a dispute over ownership, despite his insistence that he’d personally grown the crop for the past decade. The legal case had been working its way through the courts since 2023.
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- A California farmer who made national headlines when he gave away thousands of nectarines for free lost his case over ownership of his nectarine crop in Fresno County Superior Court. The farmer Cesar Mora from Reedley was ordered to destroy his trees last week, and on Thursday, his weekslong trial with Giumarra Brothers Fruit Company in Southern California ended.
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