The cold temperatures lasted for several days resulted in heavy losses in strawberry fields and caused almost total destruction of such Florida truck farming crops as snap beans, cucumbers, endives and squash.
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Why not let people know that a whole bunch of folks up here are back into what's essentially truck farming, purveying vegetables and fruits, flowers and apple butter, even Christmas trees in season?
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In 1931, the Somerset Fruit Growers Exchange building was dedicated, and between truck farming, oil, and coal, the town prospered until the mid-1930s, when diminishing oil returns and the Great Depression caused a decline.
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By the end of 213 pages, readers have been told an awful lot about Peekskill truck farming, as well as about that city's post-office politics, its parking regulations and its proud history of yeast manufacturing.
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These two communities, split by the Baltimore Beltway in 1957, are Linthicum and North Linthicum ( or, alternatively, Linthicum-Shipley and North Linthicum . ) Both communities developed as a result of their locations adjacent to the truck farming community.
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-- A detailed diary and letters written by two Campbell brothers in 1850 describing their trek on the Oregon-California Trail, their subsequent turn to truck farming in California instead of gold prospecting, and their return, via Panama, in 1852.
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Truck farming had become important in north central Florida, with large shipments of vegetables and melons from Gainesville to markets in the northern US . Phosphate mining continued to be important, although starting to decline, and industries such as processing naval stores and making fertilizer thrived in Gainesville.
