Resilient farmers fight back against coronavirus

The region’s agriculture sector is scrambling to keep up with rapid-fire shifts in demand, forcing some unseemly scenes — like 7,000 gallons of spilled milk. But creative solutions are percolating.

  • By Mark Gordon and Grier Ferguson
  • | 8:52 a.m. May 1, 2020
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File. Gary Wishnatzki is the third generation owner of Wish Farms in Plant City.
File. Gary Wishnatzki is the third generation owner of Wish Farms in Plant City.
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Remember the milkman?

The delivery service of yore, usually a well-dressed man with a neutral tie and a tidy hat, would bring a crate of milk and sometimes other produce right to your door. The advent of refrigerators in homes and cars to get to grocery stores mostly put an end to the milkman by World War II.   

 

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