Cold Facts 01
Use the words to fill in all the gaps.
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.”
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