Posted AT 5:11 AM EDT on 07/05/08
Deep fruit freeze devastates Okanagan orchards
Okanagan fruit growers are anxiously checking the flowers in their budding orchards to see how badly their crops were hit by an unseasonably cold spring topped off by an Arctic front two weeks ago.
Cherry and apricot orchards have been particularly devastated, with some growers believing about 90 per cent of their fruit has been killed off or damaged by the deep freeze.
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