Losses could top 35% after cold snap hits Clermont’s Southern Hill Farms, owner says

CLERMONT, Fla. — This time of year is usually one of the more fruitful for Southern Hill Farms, which has provided a wide variety of popular fruits and flowers to the community for more than a decade.

But thanks to recent cold weather, owner David Hill says damage to his crops will have a huge impact on the farm’s bottom line.

“You know we’re known for a lot of things,” Hill said. “We’re known for being a strawberry farm, blueberry farm, but we’re also known as being a sunflower farm.”…

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