As part of this week “Newsmaker” show of Sarah’s Country, Tim Jones from Summerfruit NZ Summerfruit NZ chair discusses how bad weather has hit the harvest hard in the South Island decimating apple and cherry crops leaving growers in a dire situation on top of the major labour shortage.

Fruit and hop growers in parts of the South Island are counting the cost of wild weather since Christmas, with the bill expected to run into millions of dollars.

What’s been described as the biggest hailstorm to hit the Motueka area in living memory, decimated some kiwifruit and apple crops in the region. While further south, heavy and persistent rain is predicted to have a similar impact on the Central Otago cherry harvest.

To read more : https://farmersweekly.co.nz/section/horticulture/view/si-growers-hit-hard

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