Florida’s agricultural industry is taking stock after Sunday’s extreme weather, with farmers facing millions of dollars in losses after a battering from an extremely dry fall compounded by the weekend’s arctic plunge.
Temperatures dropped to the single digits in parts of North Florida and the teens and 20s elsewhere. In South Florida, temperatures dropped to the low-30s.
The perfect storm is “a natural disaster,” University of Florida Forage Extension Specialist Marcelo Wallau predicted in the UF’s report on Friday…