Source: HENDERSONVILLE LIGHTNING, 4/4/22


During a breakfast with state Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler before the opening of the WNC Mountain State Fair last September, state Rep. Tim Moffitt seized the moment. “I spoke to him clearly about what our needs would be for the freeze and what happened on those occasions earlier that year,” he said, referring to the multiple April 2021 freeze that wiped out nearly three-quarters of Henderson County’s apple crop.

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