Hard freeze hurts Michigan cherry crop

Environment Report: A hard freeze has wiped out a big portion of the cherry crop in Northwest Michigan this spring. The area produces more than half the state's cherries that end up in desserts, juice and as dried fruit. An historic early warm-up in March left fruit trees vulnerable to frost once the weather turned cooler again. Temperatures broke records for the month of March across the Great Lakes region. Climate researchers say there's never been anything like it going back more than a hundred years. "We're...

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