{"id":283134,"date":"2026-09-10T17:20:46","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T17:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/283134\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T17:20:46","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T17:20:46","slug":"apple-crops-are-smaller-but-most-erie-pick-your-own-farms-have-opened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/283134\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple crops are smaller, but most Erie pick-your-own farms have opened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sept. 10, 2026, 4:57 a.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">A brutal spring is still having a chilling effect on Erie County&#8217;s agriculture. After the cherry and peach crops were more or less decimated, apple farmers don&#8217;t have much better news.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The crop is lighter this year and the season might be shorter than usual, according to Post Apple Scientific owner Gordon Post in North East, which is still hosting a picking season. &#8220;Come early,&#8221; he said with a laugh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sept. 10, 2026, 4:57 a.m. ET A brutal spring is still having a chilling effect on Erie County&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[596,136,138,137,539,82371,65268,65269,118107,63960,8252,92995,118106,118108,1143,1844,15077,1846,42034,9644,1850,4302,651,648,1848,535],"class_list":["post-283134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-accessmetered","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-pa","tag-sourceerie-times-news","tag-sstsbusinessagricultural","tag-sstsnagricultural","tag-tagagribusiness","tag-tagagriculture","tag-tagagriculture-forestry","tag-tagagritourism","tag-tagapple-trees","tag-tagapples","tag-tagerie","tag-tagerie-county","tag-tagfacebook","tag-tagfall-season","tag-tagfarms-ranches","tag-tagfruits-vegetables","tag-tagholiday-marketplace-hub","tag-taglocal-affiliate-food","tag-taglocal-news","tag-tagoverall-negative","tag-tagto-the-point","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283134","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=283134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}