Reply #15: Maybe you should try reading the whole article

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'An abnormally cold winter and a series of freezing nights stalled the plants' production. Once temperatures rose, they all started producing berries at once — and in unusually large quantities.

"The cold weather shocks the plants," said Gary Wishnatzki, head of Wishnatzki Farms in Plant City. "It induced more blooms."'

The goal with this particular crop is to stagger your planting and harvest times so as to produce a consistent yield over a period. That way you can hire workers to pick part of the crop which is in harvest, then move onto the next field and so on. If they all bloom at once, then you would need to hire many more pickers to get the whole harvest before it rots, and they won't keep especially well once picked. So you get a glut (which is what's happening now) which will be followed by a shortage, although it'll be offset for consumers by imports from California and other places where strawberries are grown but which didn't get hit by this problem.