Farm Bill should offer more help for specialty crop growers
A late freeze last Easter meant local apple growers have little to show for their efforts now. The same for growers of cherries and peaches. Early summer drought hurt the local blueberry harvest.
``It's all part of the business,'' an area apple farmer told the Kalamazoo Gazette. ``But it's just real hard to swallow. It's like working all year and not getting a paycheck.''