The strawberry growers in the Suonenjoki region are now devising cooperation with firms that buy wild berries from Northern Finland. For example, in the Suonenjoki region, the heartland of Finnish strawberry growing, around 3,500 berry pickers are expected this summer. After the strawberry season, which ends at the turn of August, the pickers could move on to collecting wild berries from the northerly forests and marshland. Hopes that southern strawberry pickers will move on to pick wild...

Still, growers are looking forward to a decent, but late, harvest. Cline doesn t yet know the financial impact the freeze had on their strawberries. Both Martin and Cline farms use matted row covers, where plants are set 18 to 30 inches apart in rows three to four feet apart. The thin layer of ice on the strawberry plants acted as an insulator, protecting the delicate blossoms from the cold. Cline Farms sprayed the plants with water prior to the freeze. A new technology involving...

Apples Get Death Steve Reed Reporter Local strawberry and corn producers appear to have dodged a potential disaster, but apple growers in the western part of the state have been devastated by the Easter weekend freeze. Experts said growers throughout the mountain county reported a dire outlook for this year's harvest after temperatures dropped into the teens on Friday and Saturday nights. Statewide The weekend's freezing weather appears to have destroyed this year's apple harvest in...

Home:News:Harrison Daily Times:Editorial Editorial Peaches on the 4th? Maybe not this year By DWAIN LAIR, Times Editor dwainl@commpub.com 05/01/2007 Email to a friendPost a CommentPrinter-friendly Last month s freeze was an inconvenience, at worst, for most of us. Home:News:Harrison Daily Times:Editorial Editorial Peaches on the 4th? Maybe not this year By DWAIN LAIR, Times Editor dwainl@commpub.com 05/01/2007 Email to a friendPost a CommentPrinter-friendly Last month s freeze was an...

The pair have established a new body which has entered into an unconditional contract to purchase the former Edinburgh Fruit Market building and a number of adjacent properties from Blackrock for 18. Outline planning consent has already been obtained for hundreds of flats on the site and a detailed planning application is due to be submitted shortly. Applecross, which is based in the city, will manage the project. The page is still readable. MORE than 400 flats are to be built in Edinburgh...

Lane will have his fruit market this summer, but it won t be the same. For local growers, the unthinkable happened around Easter when nearly a week of 80-degree temperatures and bright sunshine gave way to seven frozen days and nights of misery even snowfall. The couple s delicate strawberry blossoms were covered from the cold and withstood the frost. Pick-your-own and picked berries will be offered to the public at the popular farm market. Four acres of fruit trees in bloom apples,...

The market rewards Florida blueberry growers handsomely for those fresh blueberries. Thanks to a raft of positive reports in print and broadcast media, the blueberry has become one of the hottest commodities growing in and outside Florida. My firm conviction is the Florida blueberry market will get only stronger for a good while. Blueberry color is an important quality factor influencing fresh-market value and the suitability of the berries for processing. In recent years, that first...

I refuse to pay the inflated prices as they stand today, knowing there is a better than even chance I would lose a substantial investment within the next decade or so while the housing bubble deflates. Thanks to Alan Greenspan's easy money policy, and unregulated mortgage brokers, housing has inflated way beyond core value in most major metropolitan areas. In addition, I have already cut back on things like eating out and shortening my yearly vacation by a day or two to compensate for the...

Facing more freezing temperatures in the predawn hours Tuesday morning, Bladen County blueberry grower Sam Rose says he doesn t have enough water left in his irrigation ponds to protect his 165-acre crop. 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. When freezing temperatures hit those fields again early tomorrow...