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Freezing overnight temperatures Monday killed the majority of Michigan’s first asparagus crop in the state’s largest growing area.

John Bakker, executive director of the Michigan Asparagus Advisory Board, tells Brownfield harvest was just getting started this past week.  “We got started about 10 days ago in the southern part of the state.  The West Central, or main producing area, was just getting going when we got clobbered on early Monday by temperatures as low as the low to mid-20s.”

He says temperatures that low will cause growers to lose about two to three pickings of the crop. 

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