Bad winter puts freeze on California etrog harvest
by SUE FISHKOFF,
Jerusalem Post Service
The past year's bad weather in California, including below-freezing temperatures last December and biting cold rains through February and March, is proving to be a windfall for a handful of Israelis.Bad winter puts freeze on California etrog harvest | j. the Jewish news weekly of Northern California
Which Israelis? The etrog growers, of course.
That's because this year's etrog crop in California has failed.
"There will not be a harvest this year," said John Kirkpatrick, a San Joaquin Valley farmer recently tabbed "the only large-scale U.S. producer of the etrog" by the Wall Street Journal.
Sukkot, the holiday that creates the demand for etrogim, begins today at sunset.»
http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/11664/bad-winter-puts-freeze-on-california-etrog-harvest/
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