Apple Crop Shortage Hits Home
A spring freeze has resulted in the smallest harvest in Michigan since 1945, raising prices on apples at Metro Detroit orchards and meaning fewer of the state-grown fruits at Berkley grocery stores.
Wild weather this spring that devastated Michigan's apple crop is having a mixed impact on the price and availability of the crunchy fruits this fall, according to Metro Detroit purveyors. Grocers in Berkley have been able to hold prices steady, but are offering fewer state-grown apples; Metro Detroit orchard owners have had to import the fruits; and one popular pie company has seen the cost of its products increase. [Leave a comment to share how you've experienced the crop shortage's impact!] Apple prices have gone up after a spring freeze resulted in the smallest apple crop in the state since 1945, said Pete Blake, co-owner of Blake’s Orchard and Cider Mill in Armada. A week of 90-degree temperatures in March caused the trees to bloom …
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