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By JAN LAVALLEY
Rappahannock Ntwi Staff Writer , With this year’s crop so far ahead of schedule, fruit growers in the county were discouraged, to say the least, by last week’s below freezing temperatures. The severe drop to the low 20s last Wednesday damaged this year’s fruit crops severely but it will be a few weeks until growers know how much damage was really done.
Leon and Betty Hutcheson of Sunset Hills Farm were hit harder than many area growers because they’re on higher ground.
“We lost probably 50 percent of the peaches and maybe 75 to 90 percent of the early apples,” said Mr. Hutcheson. “We got more cold air because there was no heavy frost. Frost tends to settle in the low areas and if you’re higher up it doesn’t do as much damage.”
But last week’s weather was cold and windy and did less damage to the lower lying areas due to the wind which had some counter effect to the cold.
Mr. Hutcheson said those areas i of his farm which were behind i buildings or in lower areas were
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