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Take Two

Freezing temps in California destroy $441M worth of citrus crops

By Take Two Staff
Published Feb 5, 2014
Field worker Fernando Villenueva waits for warmer temperatures to begin picking oranges during a cold snap that is affecting the San Joaquin Valley citrus crop Friday, Dec. 6, 2013 in Orange Cove, Calif. Growers across California have toiled this week to protect the state's prized $2 billion a year citrus industry and other key crops such as lettuce and avocados from the cold snap that engulfed the state, dropping temperatures to levels that can damage fruit and delay the harvest of greens. (AP Photo/Gary Kazanjian)
Field worker Fernando Villenueva waits for warmer temperatures to begin picking oranges during a cold snap that is affecting the San Joaquin Valley citrus crop Friday, Dec. 6, 2013 in Orange Cove, Calif.
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Gary Kazanjian/AP
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Freezing temps in California destroy $441M worth of citrus crops

It's been a rough year for citrus crops in California. New estimates out this week show that a week of freezing temperatures in December wiped out nearly a quarter of the state's $2 billion citrus industry.

RELATED: Report: Freeze cost California citrus about $441M

For more on the state of citrus in California and throughout the country, we turn now to Chip Carter, an Editor with the Produce News, who has been following the story.