{"id":154476,"date":"2026-02-13T16:09:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T16:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/154476\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T16:09:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T16:09:10","slug":"deep-freeze-in-central-florida-causes-over-1-billion-in-agricultural-losses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/154476\/","title":{"rendered":"Deep freeze in Central Florida causes over $1 billion in agricultural losses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The recent deep freeze in Central Florida may have cost our economy more than $1 billion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Florida\u2019s agriculture commissioner said the figure represents the likely financial losses faced by farmers after their crops froze.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The economic impact follows an assessment of damage at various farms across the state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The freezing temperatures impacted several agricultural operations across the state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Southern Hill Farms, located in Clermont, is among the businesses reporting significant crop damage following the weather event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/mobile-apps\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and smart TV apps. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">click here<\/a> to stream Channel 9 Eyewitness News live.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"ct:story;elm:img;itc:0;\" class=\"stretched-box\" href=\"https:\/\/wftvapps.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"537\" height=\"108\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/beda08358d6db9816e7b0d066edd22cf.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The recent deep freeze in Central Florida may have cost our economy more than $1 billion. Florida\u2019s agriculture&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[74483,30469,147,59492,74482,28,30,29,24983],"class_list":{"0":"post-154476","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-agricultural-operations","9":"tag-agriculture-commissioner","10":"tag-central-florida","11":"tag-deep-freeze","12":"tag-financial-losses","13":"tag-florida","14":"tag-florida-headlines","15":"tag-florida-news","16":"tag-freezing-temperatures"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}