Ontario Fruit Crop Losses To Top $100M From Catastrophic Freeze

A catastrophic freeze has wiped out about 80 per cent of Ontario's apple crop and has the province's fruit industry looking at losses already estimated at more than $100 million.

“This is the worst disaster fruit growers have ever, ever experienced,'' orchard owner Keith Wright said Friday.

“We've been here for generations and I've never heard of this happening before across the province. This is unheard of where all fruit growing areas in basically the Great Lakes area, in Michigan, Pennsylvania, New York State, Ontario, are all basically wiped out. It's unheard of,'' the Harrow, Ont.-area grower said.

Wright lost hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of apples and peaches last Sunday when freezing temperatures killed the blossoms.

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