A survey of agricultural damage caused in Monterey County by a series of March storms found current and future losses totaling $264 million, county officials said.

The survey by the county’s Agricultural Commissioner’s Office and a prior survey of impacts from January’s series of atmospheric river storms combine to estimate $600 million in damage to the local agricultural industry this year.

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Dan McMenamin is the managing editor at Bay City News, directing daily news coverage of the 12-county greater Bay Area. He has worked for BCN since 2008 and has been managing editor since 2014 after previously serving as BCN’s San Francisco bureau reporter. A UC Davis graduate, he came to BCN after working for a newspaper and nonprofit in the Davis area. He handles staffing, including coaching of our interns, day-to-day coverage decisions and management of the newswire.