For the past few years, \u201charvest season\u201d has too quickly morphed into \u201cfire season\u201d in Northern California. This year has been no exception, as some of the world\u2019s best cannabis growers have faced evacuations from a huge fire in Sonoma County and days-long blackouts as the region\u2019s largest electricity provider PG&E shut off power to prevent downed power lines sparking another fire.<\/p>\n
However, in light of the fires and blackouts that have impacted California this year, the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration will provide some relief to cannabis farmers across the state caught up in the events. Because Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency across the entire state, business owners across California are eligible to receive \u201cthe extension of tax return due dates, relief of penalty and interest, or replacement copies of records lost due to disasters.\u201d<\/p>\n
For places like Mendocino County, where fires now seem to rage annually, this is the\u00a0fifth time<\/a>\u00a0since 2017 that\u00a0CDTFA<\/a>\u00a0has provided such relief. Thirty-two other special tax categories in addition to cannabis will also see relief.<\/p>\n As with other recent fire seasons<\/a>, Sonoma County\u2019s cannabis industry seems to be taking the brunt of the devastation. This year, it\u2019s the Kincade Fire. The fire has now raged for over a week and scorched 77,758 acres, according to\u00a0CalFire\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0most recent incident update. Most of the 352 structures destroyed and over 1600 still threatened are residential, but farmers on the tail end of harvest season certainly are dealing with the threat of their crop smoked out.<\/p>\n An army of almost 5,000 firefighters<\/a>\u00a0that includes 105 hand crews backed by 543 engines, 15 helicopters and 66 bulldozers have contained the fire at 68%, as of Nov. 1. The firefighters don\u2019t fully expect to contain the fire until Nov. 7. On a positive note, nobody has yet lost their life to the fire, but four first responders have been injured fighting the blaze.<\/p>\n So why do fires like this impact the cannabis industry so hard? Located near the Kincade Fire, Santa Rosa is the last big city as travelers head north towards from San Francisco to the Emerald Triangle and basically the last until Portland. The labor power that Santa Rosa is able to provide has seen the city become a hotbed for distribution companies that deliver cannabis around the state from their wine country headquarters. It\u2019s definitely not unreasonable to think a big portion of the cannabis being produced in California is passing through Santa Rosa\u2019s warehouses or down Highway 101 to the San Francisco Bay Area and then on to Los Angeles.<\/p>\n The fires also impact cannabis that\u2019s still in the field. Lots of pot is now in the most delicate and important stage of all: drying and curing. Every year, plenty of great weed gets messed up after it\u2019s chopped down, and now this year, farmers have had to deal with a big wrench in their plans.<\/p>\n Even if they weren\u2019t directly impacted by the fires, PG&E\u2019s effort to prevent more infernos across the state was essentially rolling blackouts, as to not give their transmission lines the opportunity to spark anything up if they fell on fire-prone dry trees. There is nothing more important to the drying and curing process than temperature and humidity control, and as anyone who has even thrown a residential aid conditioner in the window would probably guess, the commercial-grade climate control systems it takes to effectively dry acres-worths of marijuana use a lot of electric power.<\/p>\n In recent weeks, many farmers did whatever they had to do to save their crop. Whether it was bringing in $30,000 dollar propane generators or doing laps back and forth to the gas station when something larger wasn\u2019t applicable or possible, the process of keeping crops viable was an expansive one at the end of season where they\u2019ve already dished out big bucks.<\/p>\n TELL US<\/strong>, have you been affected by the blackouts and fires in California?<\/p>\n The post California Pot Farms Dealing With Fires & Blackouts Get Tax Relief<\/a> appeared first on Cannabis Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n
For the past few years, \u201charvest season\u201d has too quickly morphed into \u201cfire season\u201d in Northern California. This year has been no exception, as some of the world\u2019s best cannabis growers have faced evacuations from a huge fire in Sonoma County and days-long blackouts as the region\u2019s largest electricity providerContinue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[148,12795,50,170,2081,105,177,12796,665,6407,1961],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39319"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39320,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39319\/revisions\/39320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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