A lot of the growers actually compare the crops every two years. But even if you look at the 80.4 million pounds from the 2003 season, the crop was still 27 percent below 2003. |
You had a cool, wet spring that brought about the disease conditions and delayed the bloom by one or two weeks. Then there was the dry summer, just when we needed a good rainfall in August. That lack of rain in July really put a lot of stress on the harvest. |