"Mark Thorson" > wrote in message
...
> Quoting from:
>
> http://www.heraldandnews.com/article...ews/local2.txt
>
> A Friday night thunderstorm that
> destroyed fields of strawberry seedlings in
> Butte Valley, Tulelake, Malin and Yonna
> Valley will likely cripple the strawberry
> market nationwide.
>
> California, which gets its strawberry plants
> from Klamath and Siskiyou county
> farmers, produces 75 percent of the nation's
> strawberries.

Maybe they can let the runners take root and make new plants, like we
peasants do all the time.