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Midstate farmers on alert as warm weather settles in a bit early this year

“Next week, it’s going to be warm again. The more we have of that, and the longer we have of that, then the closer we get to the tree starting to blossom,” said Karen Paulus, co-owner of Paulus Orchard in Cumberland County. “That’s when it becomes a problem. If those temperatures dropped down again.”

By Julia Agos/WITF

‘It’s just baffling: Apple growers face an uknown threat that’s killing trees

“You have a beautiful crop on, especially August-September. And then, all of a sudden, you’d come back a week later, and it would be dead.”
By Julie Grant/The Allegheny Front

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Midstate apple crop could set a record

By Ben Allen