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2020-04-24 Economy

Coronavirus pandemic hits Florida's farmers hard as many on verge of total-loss in early growing season

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Posted by Skidmark 2020-04-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 People don't eat cucumbers during Covid?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-24 02:40|| 2020-04-24 02:40|| Front Page Top

#2 When life hands you cucumbers, make pickles.

Posted by Phusotle Dingle5823 2020-04-24 08:08|| 2020-04-24 08:08|| Front Page Top

#3 Incidentally, farmers in Israel pressuring the Gov to give them money so they can pay unskilled agricultural workers - Israel has a large population of third world refugees who worked as cleaners etc... before covid.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-24 08:26|| 2020-04-24 08:26|| Front Page Top

#4 /\ Gobsmackingly awful! Certainly glad such a thing does not happen here in the States.

[sarc off]

Posted by Besoeker 2020-04-24 08:32|| 2020-04-24 08:32|| Front Page Top

#5 Will Tang now fly off the shelves?

Posted by Clem 2020-04-24 08:34|| 2020-04-24 08:34|| Front Page Top

#6 Will Tang now fly off the shelves?

Yes. That and Space Food Sticks

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-04-24 08:49|| 2020-04-24 08:49|| Front Page Top

#7 Theme parks, restaurants, and cruise ships.

So no, they don't. Not in that quantity locally.

Posted by swksvolFF 2020-04-24 15:02|| 2020-04-24 15:02|| Front Page Top

#8 I am not so senile that I can't remember back just one year. Remember all those floods in the Midwest and how we were going to have massive food shortages last fall since farmers in the Midwest couldn't plant?

I can't tell if this article is something to be concerned about or not. But the media's constantly--and I mean constantly--doom and gloom crying wolf makes me doubt just about everything I read.

Posted by Tom 2020-04-24 16:00|| 2020-04-24 16:00|| Front Page Top

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