Cold Blast Strains Farmers - WSJ.com

Early Frost Kills Crops in South, Drives Up Prices as Growers Try to Shield Produce

An unusually early blast of cold air is cloaking the southeast, forcing farmers to toil through the night to save their livestock and crops of strawberries, tender green beans and sweet corn.

In parts of Florida, hit Tuesday morning with a freeze not seen this early since 1937, some growers were already reporting severe frost burn and ruined plantings, reducing supply and driving up prices for winter vegetables amid the holiday season.
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In Palm Beach County, the nation's top producer of winter vegetables, the price of a bushel of green beans soared 62% Tuesday to between $24 and $26, compared to $14 to $16 over the weekend, said J.D. Poole, vice president of Pioneer Growers Cooperative in Belle Glade, Fla.
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Still, Tuesday morning revealed that about 30% of the crops were hurt by freeze, with delicate green beans the worse off, he said, adding, "And still have to get through tonight. I can't remember a time when we had a freeze by Dec. 7," he said.

C3: The Billionaire Disease of AGW Stupidity: Bill Gates Infected By Climate Model Ignorance Contagion - Makes Rich People Sound Really Stupid

The super CO2-spewing lifestyles of the billionaires appears to make them very vulnerable to stupidity and, of course, the mega-rich guilt hypocrisy syndrome. Thus, when an IPCC climate models "predict" that human CO2 emissions will cause calamitous climate change, billionaires, such as Bill Gates, don't want to reduce his/her $30,000 per month electric bill, but propose the rest of humanity should reduce theirs to zero. (See below for the latest peer-reviewed article about climate-model-idiocy.)

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