{"id":212378,"date":"2026-03-31T00:11:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T00:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/212378\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T00:11:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T00:11:12","slug":"north-florida-blueberry-farmers-report-crop-losses-from-winter-freezes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/212378\/","title":{"rendered":"North Florida blueberry farmers report crop losses from winter freezes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; Farmers in North Central Florida say they are struggling because of dry conditions, but for blueberry farmers, the biggest threat was the previous winter freezes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A member of the North American Blueberry Council said her farm in Waldo started preparing for the freeze days before the cold front hit. Some farms saw an almost total loss of crops.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cIn North Florida, we were lucky. Mostly, I would say the average in this area was a 30 to 40% loss, though some farms did realize a 100% loss,\u201d said Brittany Lee, Vice President of Florida Blue Farms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Despite the hit, officials say they expect next season to be decent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcjb.com\/newsletter\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to subscribe to our newsletter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WCJB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; Farmers in North Central Florida say they are struggling because of dry conditions, but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[97145,68590,5876,1713,28,30,29,22970,97147,6622,97146],"class_list":["post-212378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-blueberries","tag-blueberry","tag-crops","tag-farm","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-freeze","tag-north-american-blueberry-council","tag-plants","tag-winter-freeze"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212378","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=212378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}