Source: Roy Roberson, SOUTH EAST FARM PRESS, 8/7/12
Mother Nature handed apple growers in western North Carolina a double dose of misery, starting with an April 10-11 freeze and followed up by two severe and wide-spread hailstorms in early- and mid-May.
The combination may knock out more than 75 percent of apple production in Henderson County, the state’s largest apple producing county.
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