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Cold weather prediction puts Ont apple growers on alert

May 16, 2016, Harrow, Ont – Zero is not a number you want to see on a thermometer during bloom when you are an apple farmer.

But apple growers in parts of southwestern Ontario could see temperatures at or very close to the freezing mark.

“Apple growers know full well that there is a huge risk right now,” said Leslie Huffman Balsillie of the Fruit Wagon in Harrow, Ont. READ MORE