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A Few More Bad Apples: As The Climate Changes, Fruit Growing Does, Too
Apple growers say they’ve seen more defects in their apple crops as the climate has warmed.
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HEAT: COPING WITH A WARMING WORLD
A Few More Bad Apples: As The Climate Changes, Fruit Growing Does, Too
August 1, 20186:26 AM ET
LAUREL WAMSLEY Twitter
The apples won't be harvested until October. But when fourth-generation fruit grower Phil Schwallier walks through his orchard in Sparta, Mich., he already knows which ones he won't be able to sell.
"This one's got a little sunburn on it," he says in early July. "A red yellowish color developing here on the part that's facing the sun. That's just from Friday, Saturday, Sunday, when it was so hot."
The warming climate is an increasing problem for agriculture. As weather disasters like heat waves and floods become more frequent and severe, crops are at risk of damage.
But even in a good year, slowly rising temperatures make growing the food we eat more difficult.
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A Few More Bad Apples: As The Climate Changes, Fruit Growing Does, Too
August 1, 20186:26 AM ET
LAUREL WAMSLEY Twitter
The apples won't be harvested until October. But when fourth-generation fruit grower Phil Schwallier walks through his orchard in Sparta, Mich., he already knows which ones he won't be able to sell.
"This one's got a little sunburn on it," he says in early July. "A red yellowish color developing here on the part that's facing the sun. That's just from Friday, Saturday, Sunday, when it was so hot."
The warming climate is an increasing problem for agriculture. As weather disasters like heat waves and floods become more frequent and severe, crops are at risk of damage.
But even in a good year, slowly rising temperatures make growing the food we eat more difficult.
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But we have had inhospitable weather. The winter was brutal, record lows and major snowstorms through the month of March. Then summer has vacillated between record high temperatures and major rainstorms with wind that has brought trees and branches down. We even had a brief power outage a week ago tonight. 
