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Ag Commish: Ida impacted vegetable, fruit availability

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State Agriculture Commissioner Mike Strain warns the price and availability of vegetables and fruits at your local grocery will likely be impacted by Ida damage.

“Those things that, you know, are trucked in from a very short area, and we did have a percentage of damage overall to our fruit and vegetable industry,” said Strain.


Strain said the logistics disruption will take some time to sort out.

“If we can’t get those local products in because they were damaged then they will have to be trucked in from further away, which will increase the cost.” said Strain.

Strain said about 550 million dollars in damage was done to the industry, and which in total will have an over two billion dollar impact on the state economy.