We have thousands of acres of crop loss. This is a freeze that left its mark.
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I think the Everglades Agriculture Area is going to be the epicenter for this freeze event. The things they've got growing down there now are the most susceptible to freeze damage. One grower I talked to felt he lost thousands of acres of beans. The corn is probably going to show a lot of damage, too.
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Everyone's watching the agreement Yum has with the coalition, and it seems to be working well. But the concern is that down the road, if there are additional wages that will end up making Florida farms the higher-cost alternative, and they'll be undercut by other states or Mexico, since most farms don't have these agreements.
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This is not a deep, hard freeze yet, but that may change.
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