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The weekend cold snap damaged crops across the Southeast and parts of the Midwest, and was especially devastating for fruit growers. Cost estimates for crop damage aren't expected until later in the week, but Georgia's agriculture commissioner is already saying he might ask for federal aid. After the weekend's three days of freezing temperatures, he predicted a total loss on the 3,000 trees in his small, pick-your-own orchard at Harpers Ferry. Advertisement remain available, lovers of...

Sparks, the grower organization's executive vice president/chief executive officer, is describing the agreement's possible economic impact as a "new market opportunity for Florida growers at a time when they are still recovering from the financial costs of the 2004-05 hurricanes. Citrus organization sees benefits of trade agreement - Tampa Bay Business Journal: Sparks, the grower organization's executive vice president/chief executive officer, is describing the agreement's possible...

She does know she's going to have to bring in fruit from other states, which is really bad news for the people who love to come to her orchard to pick their own fruit. If you're not an orchard grower but have fruit trees, if you cut into those buds and see green, your trees may have a chance and just keep on like normal. The tree already has a lot of built-up energy that it can't use growing fruit, so it's going to expend it growing and, if you add more, it's just going to grow out of...

LOUIS - With each cut into his orchard's baby peaches revealing only blackness, Tom Schwartz suspected what many fellow Illinois fruit growers are fretting about: This year's crop could be the pits. Any substantial loss to the crops could translate into higher prices for the fruit at grocery stores and farmer's markets, although the impact won't be known for some time yet. Such is the sentiment among peach growers around Illinois and throughout the South since a warm, bud-producing March...

While the eagles may have halted the bulldozers, they have not stopped the debate over where the produce market should go. Rendell's press office would say only that "planning is now focused on the eagles, which will impact any project on the east end of the Navy Yard. Now there are plenty of maritime interests that would invest in expanding the port if they were confident it would be a fair process, Keller said. He said he would be "willing to discuss" making land available to the produce...