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Saskatchewan fruit growers have a bumper year

Jul. 10, 2013, Saskatoon, SK – While some farmers in Saskatchewan have had to unfortunately deal with flooding, others are experiencing their best year yet.

The Saskatchewan Fruit Growers Association is reporting that as harvesting gets underway, every crop from cherries to haskaps are thriving.

“Once we finally got rid of the snow we never experienced the late frost or anything so once everything started to grow there was really no setbacks this year,” said SFGA President Wayne Pearson. “Everything that we grow here is normal or better than we’ve seen in the past.” READ MORE