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Nora Trueblood, Editor
Director ALC MarCom
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Southern Crop Devastation
A blast of arctic air pushed into the Southeast during the second week in March and challenged record lows across the region. On March 15, the National Weather Service in Columbia, South Carolina, warned of a "potential agricultural disaster" as freeze warnings stretched into central Florida.
In the wake of the freeze, peach farmers in South Carolina, the largest peach-producing state on the East Coast, are dealing with their worst crop damage in a decade. Peaches are a signature South Carolina crop, and this weather anomaly has devastated peach farmers, however, as farmers have shown time and again, they are resilient and with the help of allied-industry partners, they will survive this devastating blow.
The farmers are hopeful to have 10 to 15 percent of their normal crop this year, according to the South Carolina Department of Agriculture.
South Carolina is second only to California in overall peach production in the United States. The state's peach crop has an annual value of $90 million and an economic impact of more than $300 million.
The state also reported a 15 percent loss to the strawberry crop and a "significant loss" to blueberries. When speaking with Bill Augustine the owner of William Augustine & Sons, he stated that he has lost 80 percent of his blueberry crops. He also stated that he is working on next year's crops because this year is a bust. This impact will cause the prices of blueberries and the import of blueberries to rise tremendously.
That being said, more than farmers and consumers are impacted, what about the workers and their families. Last year one farmer employed over 750 full-time and part-time seasonal employees. This year that number will be less than 250. These workers support so many locally family-owned and run businesses in these rural farm communities. What type of relief will be provided?
Jammi Videan
Business Development Specialist, Rochester Office
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Jammi Videan joined the Allen Lund Company in 2008, bringing with her a background in transportation and customer service. A graduate of Keuka College with a Bachelors
Degree in Business Management, Videan also holds an Associates Degree in Criminal Law.
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About Allen Lund Company: Specializing as a national third-party transportation broker with nationwide offices, the Allen Lund Company works with shippers and carriers across the nation to transport dry, refrigerated (specializing in produce), and flatbed freight; additionally, the Allen Lund Company has an international division, which is licensed by the FMC as an OTI-NVOCC #019872NF, and a logistics and software division, ALC Logistics.
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