PLANT CITY, Fla. — Freezing temperatures means strawberry and citrus growers risk losing millions of dollars of crop. They can burn strawberry plants, especially the more fragile flowers, which produce berries. Vice President of Parkesdale Farms, Matt Parke, said that future berry is what he and his team are trying to protect.

Alico controls more than 50,000 acres, and says most of the land used for citrus groves will be repurposed for other crops, with about 10 percent earmarked for development over th