Florida agriculture has been slammed by Hurricane Ian

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The gravel and dirt Turpentine Still Road leads to the Longino Ranch, established 1934. It's easy to miss the turn because the front sign is blown down in a ditch. It's among the tens of thousands of acres of Florida farmland in Ian's path.

"We're going to run up and look at some tree damage that's down, says ranch manager Cliff Coddington as he heads out in his pickup to see what Hurricane Ian left behind.

It requires driving through water that's still up to the truck's tire well more than a week after the hurricane. He says the ranch had as much as five feet of water in some places immediately after the storm.

This is a huge and diversified operation that includes cattle, timber, citrus, bee keeping, wildlife conservation, and sod farming on 9,000 acres in northeast Sarasota county. Hurricane Ian touched every corner.

"Power lines were down," Coddington says. "We still don't have power yet, but they got the lines back up, so it's getting closer."