Grape Growers Having Tough Season
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Many of Missouri’s grapes have died on the vine because of a harsh winter and spring. Jim Anderson, executive director of the Missouri Wine and Grape Board, says he expects about a 60 to 70-percent reduction of projected crop yields by the time this fall’s harvest rolls around…
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He says the drought could also reduce crop yields. Missouri has about 18-hundred acres of grapes, amounting to roughly a 3.2-billion dollar industry.
(From Missourinet)
