May 7, 2012
Ontario fruit crop losses to top $100M

A catastrophic freeze has wiped out about 80 per cent of Ontario’s apple crop and has the province’s fruit industry looking at losses already estimated at more than $100 million.

"This is the worst disaster fruit growers have ever, ever experienced,” orchard owner Keith Wright said Friday. Postmedia News

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