SHEFFIELD MILLS — Farmers continue to struggle with hot, dry weather, but there is one crop that’s thriving.
“I’ve never ever seen it like this,” Earl Kidston, one of the principals in the Nova Agri-Group, owner of Blueberry Acres, said in an interview at the Sheffield Mills, Kings County, farm Tuesday.
“We have, by far, the biggest crop we’ve ever had,” Kidston said as he surveyed a portion of the 74 hectares in high-bush blueberry production.
Kidston said a mild winter combined with good pollination has resulted in a bumper crop. And the summer weather is forcing the berries to ripen fast.
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