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dors around and find thoy ro heavier than anticipated.”

As far as ttns years crop is concerned. Rohinson calls it "mediocre” and "slow" too. Robinson points out that it takes pickers twice as long to harvest half-size apples.

Robinson added that Virginia orchardists who suffered the late frost and long drought are also being hurt by an unusually big crop this year from North Carolina. Those orchardists lack ample storage space, according to Robinson, and “have to drop the price to keep movement up."

Rappahannock's fruit producers might prefer the problem of too many apples this year.

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