Thats a very strange article, the trees are just this week starting to bloom at
my house and I was thinking this was early for us.
Its almost always below zero in mid-February here, last winter was MUCH colder
for MUCH longer than this year...
-Curt
From: Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
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Sent: Monday, May 9, 2016 2:53 PM
Subject: [MBZ] OT: Peach crop wiped out I NE States
For alleged peach lovers Fred, Dimitri, Curt et al:
Northeast peach crops decimated by Valentine's coldPublished: Monday, May
9, 2016
In mid-February, the majority of the peach crop in the Northeast was
destroyed by subzero temperatures. One fruit tree expert is calling the
incident the Valentine's Day massacre of peach blooms.
New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts lost 90 percent
or more of the peach crop, according to specialists.
Through a combination of the February freeze and a cold spell in early
April, the Hudson River Valley lost 90 percent of its crop, according to
Dan Donahue, commercial fruit tree specialist with the Cornell Cooperative
Extension.
"That Valentine's Day massacre really did us in," said Mary Concklin, fruit
tree expert with the University of Connecticut cooperative extension. "So
much for that peach cobbler this summer."
New Jersey lost about 40 percent of its crop in the southern region of the
state, where 4,500 acres of peach trees are located.
"This is not just a local event," said George Hamilton, field specialist
for the University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension in Hillsborough
County. "We're seeing it all over the Northeast. The crop in the Hudson
River Valley and other places in the Northeast got hammered" (Lynne Tuohy,
AP/*Boston Globe*
<http://www.boston.com/news/business/2016/05/07/northeasts-peach-crop-decimated-mid-february-freeze>,
May 7).
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