{"id":215025,"date":"2026-06-09T22:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T22:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/215025\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T22:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T22:51:09","slug":"fruit-losses-could-hit-200-million-after-april-freeze-experts-say-pennsylvania-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/215025\/","title":{"rendered":"Fruit losses could hit $200 million after April freeze, experts say | Pennsylvania News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Penn State Extension, a group of educators watching Pennsylvania’s farm market, have some dire news for many of the state’s fruit farmers.<\/p>\n

It published a report a few days ago that says losses due to freezing temperatures in April could be “catastrophic.”<\/p>\n

That includes 60 to 80 percent of European pears, 70 to 90 percent of Pennsylvania’s apples and perhaps all of the state’s apricots, cherries, nectarines, peaches and plums.<\/p>\n

The losses could total between $150 and $200-million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Penn State Extension, a group of educators watching Pennsylvania’s farm market, have some dire news for many of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[15222,94202,153,155,154,94203,77307,22686,94201,33598,94200,94204,51894],"class_list":["post-215025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-apples","tag-apricots","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-cherries","tag-crop-loss","tag-economic-impact","tag-european-pears","tag-freezing-temperatures","tag-fruit-farmers","tag-nectarines","tag-penn-state-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}