True, but OCCASIONALLY there is a freak frost and ALL the strawberries and/or grapes die. (Price of wine skyrocketed; no farmer took the loss.) It's happened more than once in my life, with crops.
I remember a swarm of millions (Carl Sagan's "BILLIONS AND BILLIONS!!!") of locusts ... oh, that was in Saudi Arabia, not California. :o) Sorry. Getting my bugs and catastrophes mixed up.
I’m not saying there isn’t weather related issues in CA, there is everywhere. But CA farms are small acrage wise and in many ways more manageable. I knew several farmers in the Central Valley and it was a shock to see the difference from what our farm was.