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Growers survive another year of 'playing poker'

Jeff and Jerred Nix pose with the last of their 2014 apple crop.

By Bill Moss, Published: November 19, 2014

EDNEYVILLE — On a frigid morning in mid-April, Jerred Nix walked through an orchard examining tiny apples for freeze damage. The temperature had dropped to 24 degrees the night before, danger zone for the young crop.

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