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The impacts to this yearâs apricot crop are a bit more up in the air, but a freeze Tuesday night appears to have generally spared local peach growers.
Bruce Talbott of Talbott Farms in Palisade said that fruit trees are only now breaking out of their winter dormancy, helping protect them from the impacts of Tuesday nightâs freeze.
âEverything except apricots is still very durable. We can probably take 10 degrees (as a low) and still have a peach crop and we werenât there. We werenât close to there,â he said.
The official Grand Junction low temperature Wednesday morning was 20 degrees. Kris Sanders, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Grand Junction, said the agency received reports of low temperatures ranging from 16 degrees just north of Fruita to 29 in Palisade. However, localized temperatures in the Palisade area can vary widely based on factors such as topography, and Talbott said Talbott Farms recorded a low of 18 degrees at one of its or