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A powerful cold front earlier this month could’ve caused over one billion dollars in damage to Florida agriculture, according to Agriculture Commissioner Wilton Simpson.
A local Hillsborough County farmer says he felt the hit in the loss of thousands of dollars in lost crops.
“That’s my dad, he’s ninety, over here. He’s the one that started all this. We’re both retired firefighters, he did 35 years, he was a deputy chief of Tampa when he retired…” Royce Grant said as he rode his golf cart around Lutz Blueberry Farm, his small family-owned pick-your-own blueberry farm in Lutz, Florida…