Hail storm causes total loss for Canadian apple grower
“It started hailing the size of ping pongs and the size of big grapes and it went on for four minutes,” said Fedosoff, the.
Four minutes was enough to ruin most of the apples at the orchard, located about 50 kilometres north of Saskatoon, Canada. Although many of the apples are still hanging on the trees, they are of no use to Fedosoff.
“They’re still small enough right now it doesn’t knock all of them off, but it cracks them into opening them up for any kind of infections and for all the bugs to get in. I can’t use any of them.”
More than 75 per cent of the apple harvest was destroyed in Tuesday’s storm, according to Fedosoff. Fedosoff figures more than $10,000 will be lost in retail sales.
“I can’t even use them for juicing, because I’m sure they’re going to be too mushy.”
source: globalnews.ca
