date:Nov 30, 2012
normal.
However, Summerfruit New Zealand chairman Gary Bennetts and Summerfruit Orchards general manager Ian Nicholls said crops in their respective Roxburgh and Earnscleugh orchards were light or about the same as last year.
Severe frosts early in the season and recently, as well as a generally cool spring, had affected fruit-set and delayed ripening, meaning there was less fruit and the season was running up to a week late.
Mr Bennetts said although he did not know how light the crops were