State’s Orange Crop Severely Damaged

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As much as 70 percent of oranges still on California trees may have been destroyed by record cold temperatures across the state, officials and farmers said.


It will take days to make a full assessment of the losses to the $1.1-billion orange crop. But the state’s top agriculture official said Monday that damage to fruit and vegetable crops overall will be greater and more widespread than in the devastating freeze of 1998, which destroyed $700 million worth of produce across California.



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