Joe Sardinha Despite hail that pounded Okanagan growers in British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley in Canada this summer, most apples reaching markets are likely to be looking good and fetching better-than-expected prices. Production Insurance for British Columbia estimates that about half of all fruit orchards in the Okanagan suffered some degree of damage in the storms that battered the valley on July 4 to 6. Apple growers were particularly hard hit, with about 5 percent of the crop written off by the provincial crop insurer in the days following the storms. A further 5 to 10 percent of the crop could […]