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Despite dry and drought conditions over much of the state, Virginia’s apple harvest this fall will be about 60 per cent of a normal crop year, a Virginia Tech Extension horticulturist said.
Prof. George R. Williams, the specialist, said this year’s harvest will be about 5.9 million bushels. About 10 million bushels is the average, Williams said.
Virginia will probably rank fifth after Washington state, New York, Michigan and either California or Pennsylvania, the Tech specialist said.
Rappahannock Extension Agent Rap Owings predicted that the county’s apple harvest would fall slightly behind state estimates. “I think it will be a little lighter in Rappahannock—about 50 per cent” of the normal crop, said Owings.
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