By Leef Smith Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, April 14, 2007; Page B04 Fruit growers across Virginia and Maryland have suffered substantial crop damage from a springtime roller coaster of weather changes expected to continue this weekend, pummeling the region with heavy rains and high winds. By Leef Smith Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, April 14, 2007; Page B04 Fruit growers across Virginia and Maryland have suffered substantial crop damage from a springtime roller coaster of...

Back Article published Apr 6, 2007 Spring blooms yield to snow flurries Farmers try to save peaches, other crops from damage By KATHIE DICKERSON Staff Writer COSHOCTON - Ohio weather seems to be playing a cruel April Fool's joke on Central Ohio residents, especially farmers. Back Article published Apr 6, 2007 Spring blooms yield to snow flurries Farmers try to save peaches, other crops from damage By KATHIE DICKERSON Staff Writer COSHOCTON - Ohio weather seems to be playing a cruel April...

High winds uprooted apple trees and snapped others in half as Henderson County apple growers continue to reel from the effects of April's devastating weather. The Easter freeze wiped out 100 percent of the county's apples, about 75 percent of the strawberries, and all the peaches, cherries, blackberries and raspberries, according to farmers, extension agents and agriculture officials. The wind damage adds insult to injury following last week's Easter freeze that wiped out this year's apple...

Since then, he's talked politics with reporters over jugs of Florida's Natural orange juice, produced from a farming co-op begun in 1933 that his family is a part of. What's With Watts and Richardson? A Nelson Mandela for an Earlier Time March 04, 2007 Juicing the GOP Message. After his alma mater University of Florida Gators won the national football championship, he met with reporters in the Capitol sitting next to an alligator head. With Anna Mulrine, Silla Brush, Suzi Parker, and...

Heath Shuler met with more than 100 apple growers today to talk about the Easter weekend freeze that's apparently killed most of Henderson County's crop. The weekend cold snap not only devastated the county's five-thousand acres of apples but also impacted strawberry growers and ornamental shrubbery producers. A federal disaster declaration would open the door for low interest loans and other possible assistance for the county's 200 apple growers. Shuler says he'll pursue an agricultural...

The temperature in Chappell s orchards dipped to 21 degrees around daybreak Sunday, freezing the sap of delicate peach and apple buds that had risen early this year because of unseasonably warm temperatures in March. Unlike strawberry and blueberry growers, Chappell couldn t use overhead irrigation sprinklers to protect his blooms with a thin coat of ice. When freezing temperatures hit those fields again early tomorrow morning, Rose can only hope the mercury doesn t dip below 28 degrees...

Last weekend's cold snap caused spotty damage to Oklahoma's peach orchards as farmers turned to helicopters and burning piles of hay to stave off the spring chill. In some spots north and east of Wagoner County, the mercury plummeted to 17 degrees, while in central and southern Oklahoma, a blanket of clouds kept the air a little warmer. A November 1992 freeze killed numerous trees, and temperatures plunged to minus 15 degrees in February 1996, killing 95 percent of flowers on cultivars....

Wilcox came back to his office in the courthouse yesterday after one of his assessing trips with what he proudly described as a curiosity. Northpinellas: 1928: 'Indian cotton' discovered on island. Wilcox that cotton was found growing on the little key by the earliest settlers, the tax assessor waded to the island, where he discovered cotton plants higher than his head, bearing cotton in open bolls, and all around them smaller plants that have evidently been reseeded by the older plants....

The trade protection aims to help EU producers that employ about 2,700 people as well as around 80,000 Polish farmers who depend on the berries for their livelihood. The minimum price, due to take effect after publication in the Official Journal in the coming days, will replace temporary EU duties of as high as 34. Morocco and Turkey are the other main foreign suppliers to the EU, with a combined market share in the bloc of about 16 percent two years ago. Users will have to absorb the cost...