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Fickle spring hurts fruit growers
Updated: Saturday, 09 Jun 2012, 11:46 AM EDT
Published : Saturday, 09 Jun 2012, 11:46 AM EDT
NEW HAVEN, IN. (AP) - Indiana orchard owners have been hit hard by wildly fluctuating spring temperatures, but farming experts
and retailers say it's too soon to know how the damage to crops will affect prices or supply this fall.
Many plants began to bud early after parts of the state saw several 80-degree days in March.
But freezing temperatures in April killed many of those buds and have left some orchards without the crop they expected.
Randy Bruick of Advanced Tree Technology in New Haven tells the Journal Gazette he lost about half his apple crop.
He says the cold snap wreaked the most havoc he's seen in 30 years of growing fruit.
Tom Creswell of Purdue University's Plant and Pest Diagnostic Laboratory says damage to crops is widespread across the state.
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