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Winter’s wrath takes toll on crops

By Phyllis Coulter, Illinois Farmer Today
Jun 19, 2014
Jun 19, 2014

Tom Schwartz of Centralia determines the winter damage on his peach trees. It was so harsh this year, he will have no peaches. Normally, each tree should have many peaches about the size of a golf ball now.
ILFT photo by Amber Selman

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By Phyllis Coulter, Illinois Farmer Today

CENTRALIA — Farmers in all parts of Illinois felt the wrath of winter this year, and many are still feeling it.

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