Source: Adriana Mendez, KUTV, 8/15/17

The North Carolina Apple Festival is in a few weeks, but apple harvest is already underway. A variety of apple crops have ripened early this year because of the warm winter. Kenny Barnwell tested starch and sugar levels of his apples Monday to determine the ripeness of some of his crops. "We had a warm spring, and they bloomed at least seven or eight days early. With the dry weather and the wet weather, it tends…”

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