Fruit crop lagging after spring freeze in Bootheel region

Monday, July 2, 2007 | 1:59 p.m. CDT; updated 1:37 a.m. CDT, Friday, July 18, 2008

CAPE GIRARDEAU — Southeast Missouri farmers say this spring’s unusual cold snap has devastated the fruit crops that they would normally be taking to market this time of year.

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