Wine grapes will be plentiful in New York in 2006
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By BEN DOBBIN
The Associated Press |
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — Despite a projected 10 percent drop in New York’s overall grape crop this year, a mild winter, plentiful rain and rising consumer demand could help generate the biggest supply of wine grapes since 1999.
An estimated 160,000 tons of grapes will be produced statewide in 2006, down from 178,000 tons last year, according to a growers’ survey by the National Agricultural Statistics Service’s field office in Albany.
The key reason for this year’s decline was a spring frost that devastated grape-juice suppliers in western New York’s Erie and Chautauqua regions.
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