Apple Crop Was Ruined by Record Cold Temperatures

Posted by Jim Spence on Wednesday, May 18, 2011
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KOB - TV - It's hard times for New Mexico's most famous apple orchard - bad winter weather has almost completely destroyed this year's crop at Dixon's Apples, near Cochiti Lake. Growers blame the terrible deep freeze cold snap of early February for strangling the crop before it even blossomed. Dixon's has only about 5 percent of its usual crop this spring. Old Man Winter gobbled up the other 95 percent. Dixon's Apples owner Becky Mullane said it's only the second crop wipeout since she started working there with her grandfather, Fred Dixon, 25 years ago. Dixon started the orchard in 1944 on the site of an old dude ranch. Read full story here: News New Mexico
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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

It's the republican's fault. If the Cap & Trade Bill had been passed the weather would have been just fine. But, noooooooooooo, they had to keep their stingy profits to themselves and so the rest of us suffer the consequences of climate change.

May 18, 2011 at 2:03 PM
Anonymous said...

If we would make some investments in improving the weather we would have fewer crops ruined. Maybe we could have the flood waters of the Mississippi river channeled West into the drought areas. The only political party willing to make the rich pay for this are the democrats.

May 18, 2011 at 7:49 PM

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