Get ready to see huge amounts of especially sweet strawberries on grocery store shelves, and at rock-bottom prices.
The sporadic shortages of berries over the past month should abruptly turn into bumper crops in weeks ahead, grocers say, illustrating how unusually cold weather a month ago continues to wreak havoc on strawberry farms.
Time will tell, but Florida could have such a sudden oversupply of berries that farmers say they might have to leave berries to rot in the fields.
“We could go from having nothing to plentiful in a short period of time,” said Ted Campbell, executive director of the Florida Strawberry Growers Association in Dover.
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