Growers reel as orchards show freeze’s toll on Missouri

A warm March, then a frosty April. Apple blossoms died. Growers lost nearly everything.
Wednesday, July 25, 2007 | 12:00 a.m. CDT; updated 9:20 a.m. CDT, Sunday, July 20, 2008

This September, the town of Seymour will still have its apple festival. First Church of the Nazarene in Eldon will still have its apple pie sale to raise money for mission trips. But both will be looking beyond Missouri for apples.

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