I dunno Dwight, maybe you better plant that one and let it grow a little more.
:)
We haven't had a good punfest in a long time.
-Curt
From: Dwight Giles via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
Cc: Dwight Giles <dwight.gi...@gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, May 9, 2016 9:53 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: Peach crop wiped out I NE States
So will we have to turn to peach parts now?
Dwight Giles Jr.
1982 300CD
1990 300D
Wickford RI
On May 9, 2016 2:53 PM, "Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes" <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> 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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