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* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 31 expected.
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Thursday, June 3rd, 2010

Photo by Mark Pummell/The Daily Standard

Kris Vogel, left, and Kirsten Jutte pick strawberries Wednesday morning at Jutte's Fruit Farm & Landscaping in Fort Recovery. This year's crop was blessed with good weather conditions that brought high yields, according to owner Oscar Jutte.

Related online story:

Berries jam fruit farms

Perfect weather conditions led to an early strawberry harvest and an abundance of the juicy, red fruit at local farms.

Oscar Jutte of Jutte's Fruit Farm & Landscaping in Fort Recovery said this year's bumper crop began to ripen in mid-May - the earliest in more than 20 years. [More]

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