Source: WWAY, 5/20/21

This year’s blueberry season began with a devastating hail storm in the state. Farmer Willie Moore estimates the unexpected storm affected about 40 percent of North Carolina’s blueberry crop. Moore owns several farms in Pender, Bladen, Duplin, and Sampson counties. His Ivanhoe farm was gearing up to harvest four million pounds of blueberries this year. After the storm left crater-like marks called hail scars on some of the berries, he’s lost almost a quarter of that harvest.

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