COLUMBIA — The wind blew through the leaves at Peters Orchard, shaking the few leftover apples with each gust. “There shouldn’t be an apple around here,” said Paul Peters of the family-run, 500-acre orchard near Waverly. “We didn’t expect anything to make it.”
Apple crop battered from March freeze
Early cold snap caused the most damage to the state's fruit crops since the 1800s, says MU professor.
Tuesday, October 9, 2007 | 6:20 p.m. CDT;
updated 9:39 p.m. CDT, Sunday, July 20, 2008
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