The night of the big April freeze, Norm Schultz couldn't sleep. He stared at the thermometer at Linvilla Orchards: 24 degrees — and dropping fast.
As frost spread on the grounds, the orchard's lead farmer thought, "That's a lot of hours to go before the temperature goes up."
Why it matters: Pennsylvania is the nation's fourth-largest apple producer. As fall arrives, farmersare reeling from one of the most destructive freezes in generations, which devastated fruit crops and left apples in short supply.
