date:Apr 09, 2014
Frost this winter and inopportune rains caused complications for table grape growers throughout South America. Those complications led to a fall in production in several countries throughout the continent.
It was a complicated season for Latin American grapes, said Jacques Joubert of Sudfruit. Early grapes in Argentina were a total disaster because of late frost. The brunt of the bad weather came when early varieties were mature, which cut production of those grapes by as much as 50 percent, an