More fruit, less loot: trade wars present issues for Florida growers

A University Florida study projects tomato, strawberry and bell pepper growers statewide could face big problems under a new NAFTA.

  • By Business Observer Staff
  • | 4:01 p.m. July 28, 2019
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Courtesy. Honeyside Farms in Sarasota.
Courtesy. Honeyside Farms in Sarasota.
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While political pontificators pick apart whether a revised North American free trade agreement will be good or bad for general business interests, some Florida growers could die on the vine. Or in the strawberry patch.

 

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