Cold Facts 01

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potential / producer / devastating (verheerend) / hours / groves (Hain) / burning / depends / freezing (Gefrierpunkt) / toll (Aufwand)
California (possessive case) citrus belt, (who / which) stretches (ausdehnen) half the length of the state, houses (beherbergen) about a quarter of million acres of citrus . They make California to the second largest behind Florida. But citrus is a crop that (preposition) good weather to reach its full . That means plenty of sun and temperatures above all the time. When such cold weather hits the groves, the financial can be . This was the case in February when temperatures went to the low twenties for up (preposition) eight day after day. Although citrus farmers ran heated wind machines and kept fires through the cold nights, in most cases that was not enough to (safe / save) the oranges.

mark / prices / hundred / across / freeze (Kälteperiode) / segments / aforementioned (oben erwähnt) / losses (Verlust)
Jody Wollenman and his brother Guy, (betreiben) a company called Monte Vista Ranches. They grow some 18 acres of citrus and olives. Jody shows off an orange that was damaged (während) the . “This damage is called ice . You can see that all the of the orange have ruptured (platzen). The freeze will mean hundreds of millions of dollars in to us growers and higher for consumers in supermarkets all America.”