commission and it had taken government argue about constituency is in the south was no candidate tony chan reports. one polling station in the coastal province for a loan of two hundred km east of bangkok. the election officials have been swapped the policeman. and then not leaving anything to chunks it may be a roll them around the sleepy place that the anti government protests is that being busy and they managed to shut down the general election a month ago. this little tender that use to be a member of the democrat policy which dominates it in re own. now he's running for platonic the posse of government. but he says they're the same political divisions hit by visitors to divide things up the word uncle uncle b and c government activities here i am parallel been dosing off the cloak of the protesting here have a very similar to hike. the disruption that the election was a major embarrassment hint that the pto see anti government protest is planned ahead. on election day the election commission officials resigned though max leaving the polls comments. the woman police said. contingency p

melissa chan is in san francisco for us. >> reporter: well, tony, you've been covering the drought over the last couple of months, and it's not even summertime. summertime is going to be the big test that's when farmers will really need to draw on that precious commodity water. the worst is yet to come. that's what they said who runs a wholesale produce market. >> we expect prices are going to be high because the volume planted is not going to be that great. because of the lack of water i expect prices to at least double. >> the impact of cal's drought will really hit this summer when growers haul a major food harvest. right now enough produce coming from mexico, south america and asia have kept prices barely steady. the noticeable hike has been for beef. prices jumped last month, the most in ten years. ranchers say they faced the biggest cattle shortage since the 1950's after years of drought in texas now compounded by california's drought. in california drought has forced alfalfa farmers to limit this year's crop. some land is lying fallow. it has led to higher cost foragerforranchers