Hottest year ever update: Devastating frost/freeze cut southwest Michigan Concord grape harvest by 60%

PR-CANADA.net - National Grape Cooperative Completes Smaller-Than-Average Concord Juice-Grape Harvest

Says Richard Erdle, director Member Relations, "This year's crop yielded only 78 percent of the co-op's average crop size, due in large part to devastating frost/freeze events in our southwest Michigan growing area where the Concord harvest yielded only 40 percent of our pre-frost expectations. Michigan growers have experienced several weather-related losses over the last 10 years, not unlike those occurring in the 1960s when the area was affected by similar weather patterns. While each of the co-op's growing areas experienced frost damage, Michigan's losses were by far the greatest."