BEDFORD COUNTY, Pa (WJAC) \u2014 After a devastating early freeze in April, Pennsylvania fruit growers may be getting some much-needed relief.<\/p>\n
Matt Boyer runs Boyer Orchards in Bedford County and says unseasonably warm days followed by freezing temperatures this past spring severely diminished their apple crop.<\/p>\n
He says his 300 acres normally yields about two hundred thousand bushels, but not this year.<\/p>\n
Boyer says that number is down 70 percent, which is more than enough of a loss to qualify for state aide.<\/p>\n
According to state Ag officials, disaster assistance is now available for Pennsylvania fruit growers who suffered crop damage between April 1st and April 21st of this year.<\/p>\n
Boyer says they have applied for the grant money but have no idea how much they will get or when they\u2019ll get it.<\/p>\n
He says some varieties fared better than others, and his family is just glad they had enough apples to keep their market open.<\/p>\n
\u201cRed Delicious and Macintosh, they really got clobbered, but we still have enough apples for our market; we’re open now seven days a week and the sales have been brisk for Cortland, that’s really a big seller for us.\u201d<\/p>\n
Boyer says they know times are tough and everybody\u2019s watching their nickels, so they have tried to keep their prices relatively the same as last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BEDFORD COUNTY, Pa (WJAC) \u2014 After a devastating early freeze in April, Pennsylvania fruit growers may be getting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-294101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294101","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=294101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}