Greg Burtt News Today

Seasonal worker Victor Johnson picks apples Thursday at Burtt’s Apple Orchard in Cabot. The pick-your-own orchard sustained some damage from the spring frost but about 70% of their crop survived,

With vulnerable farmers un- or under-insured to cover their losses from a devastating May freeze, Vermont Agriculture Secretary Anson Tebbetts is pleading for federal help. But one USDA official told VTDigger he doesn’t “know the extent to which relief would be granted to the farmers.”