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Temperature swings in the southeast are taking a heavy toll on crops. A warm february followed by a march cold snap has farmers scrambling to keep produce from freezing to death. Mark strassmann is there. Theres a lot of loss here. More than a Million Dollars this week. The fifth generation farmer pulled back these protective tarps and winced. 1 3 of his strawberry crop is dead. Bad or worse than expected . The strawberries are actually a whole lot worse than i expected. Reporter his 140 acres of peach trees got it worse. All that pink blooming are vulnerable peach buds which opened three weeks early because of the unusually warm temperatures this winter. The deep freeze killed half of echols peach crop. Across the region farmers are counting their losses. Gary black is georgias agriculture commissioner. It would be easy to say that were in hundreds of millions of dollars. Reporter North Carolina peach farms looked like a winter wonderland. Overhead irrigation tried to insulate the cro

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