Most fruit growers have trouble accepting the idea that human-caused climate change is occurring. They prefer to think recent weather events are just part of a long, mysterious, and continuing cycle. What’s happening now has happened in the past—and it’s just normal. What goes around comes around. Still, there is disturbing evidence this may not be the case. There are trends. Fruit trees are blooming earlier. Winters are warmer and wetter. Summers are hotter and dryer. In the coming weeks, growers along the shores of the Great Lakes will be looking for ice. The Great Lakes did not freeze over […]