Hail destroys a third of state apple crop
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 As much as a third of the state’s apple crop has been destroyed by hail this summer, costing farmers millions of dollars and potentially raising the price for consumers, a state Agriculture and Markets spokeswoman said today.
“We’ve never seen as much damage to crops in recent history from hail as this year,’’ said the spokeswoman, Jessica Chittenden.
The crop last year was worth about $286 million. She said it’s too early to estimate what the value will be this year, or how much prices will rise.
She emphasized that there will still be plenty of apples. New York produces more apples 8Â billion last year than any state except Washington.
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
