PLANT CITY, Fla. \u2014\u00a0Higher prices are having a big impact on companies that rely on gas to keep their businesses running, including local farms.<\/p>\n
What You Need To Know<\/p>\n
G&G Palm Center Nursery is being impacted by high gas prices\u00a0
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The recent cold snap caused significant damage, requiring more work and diesel fuel for tractors
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Rising costs, including gas and palm tree prices, are affecting the nursery\u2019s budget
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The nursery anticipates needing six months to recover and get fully operational again<\/p>\n
Jorge Guerrero is navigating the cleanup to get his palm trees back to the way they were\u00a0before\u00a0the recent cold snap.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt just hurts you know losing 80 to 90 percent of the nursery and still having to hustle and strive,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Jorge\u2019s parents opened G&G Palm Center Nursery in Plant City back in 2007.<\/p>\n
They grow most of the palm trees themselves, but recently they\u2019ve also had to bring in extra inventory from Miami.<\/p>\n
Trips that were usually two to three times a month are now two to three times a week, increasing their spending on gas, but that\u2019s not all.<\/p>\n
With all the damage from the recent cold snap, it\u2019s meant more work to pick up the damaged palm leaves that\u2019s now increased their tractor usage.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re putting diesel in these tractors at least every three days, we\u2019re going through at least 15 gallons a week,\u201d Jorge said.<\/p>\n
Petra Guerrero, Jorge\u2019s mom,\u00a0says the rising costs are adding up quickly.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe prices in Miami \u2014 they\u2019re getting higher because they know we have a problem here, we can say roundtrip we spent $150 or $200 extra than we spent before,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Despite the rising costs, Jorge says he\u2019s staying positive for now.<\/p>\n
The palm tree nursery says it\u2019ll take about another six months to get its center in Plant City back up and running.<\/p>\n
The nursery also operates a second location in Dover.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PLANT CITY, Fla. \u2014\u00a0Higher prices are having a big impact on companies that rely on gas to keep…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2031,274,558,276,6076,115,135,137,136,278,835],"class_list":["post-202021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-app-local-business","tag-app-top-stories","tag-business","tag-hillsborough-county","tag-lizbeth-gutierrez","tag-news","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202021","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=202021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}