Ohio Peach Growers Hope For A Better Winter This Year

“You never know. It’s whatever Mother Nature gives us is what we get. If it gets too cold, it gets too cold. You just take what you get,” Joe Burnham VI tells the Norwalk Reflector.

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Burnham’s family operates Burnham Orchards in Berlin Heights, OH, which was hit with significant losses in their peach crop last year. Due to the polar vortex, there were several days of sub-zero temperatures.

“There were no peaches in Ohio,” he says.

Burnham is optimistic about this coming year, but says growers in the area will know by mid-April how their crops fared over this winter.

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