<p style="text-indent:0px; line-height:12px;"><span style="font-weight:bold;line-height:130%"> Waterport, NY</span><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">By ANUK Staff<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">3.28.13</p><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><p>Tree fruit growers in New York are welcoming the current cold weather.<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">Last year’s unseasonably warm weather during the same period was catastrophic for growers.<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">The warm conditions caused trees to bloom and expose themselves to an April freeze which ravaged apple, peach and cherry crops. Many local farms in the western part of the state were decimated, losing over half their crops, according to ABC13 WHAM.<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><img class="small-cropped-image" src="https://cdn.andnowuknow.com/legacySmallCroppedImages/NYweather032813body.jpg" alt="IMAGES 03272013 " /><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">Bob Brown of Brown’s Berry Patch in Orleans County noted that although last year’s conditions were disastrous, he expects this year to produce a better yield as conditions have remained cool.<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">“Every fruit farmer in western New York is very happy to see these buds all nice and tight and not ready (to bloom) yet.”<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><a class="btn btn-sm btn-primary col-lg-12" style="white-space: normal;" href=" http://www.13wham.com/news/local/story/Apples-Browns-Berry-Patch/sAXwa5u_PU6Jyu71Vp1O8Q.cspx"target="_new">NY Weather Update</a></p><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">
