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Ontario growers positive following recent temperature drop
Ontario growers are breathing a sigh of relief following last week’s drop in temperatures and wet snow.
On apples, Cathy McKay, the Ontario Apple Growers chair and an apple grower and operator of a pick-your-own orchard near Port Perry, ON says it surveyed its growers about the effects of the weather in the key growing regions which include Southwest Ontario, London, Niagara, Georgian Bay and east of Toronto. “Most places are now at the tight cluster bud stage and reporting very little damage,” she says. “We’ve had three or four days of below zero temperatures. But because we’re still at that tight cluster stage, the buds aren’t getting killed which is good. There are some pockets of damage though.”