Harlyn Fisher has lived on his family farm for nearly 100 years. Thirty-five years ago, he decided to add some apple trees to the farm. Among the Haralson, Cortland, McIntosh, Jonathan and Spartan trees dotting the homestead stands a lone apple tree that his father planted.

"It's a little shaky, but it's the best producer this year," said the 97-year-old who still picks apples. "The McIntosh apples were real early this year. I might get eight bushels. Last year the trees were just loaded. It's not a good year this year."

Fisher is not alone. Amaya Atucha, a professor and chair of the department of plant and agroecosystem sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says many apple growers in northeast Wisconsin are reporting less-than-ideal crops.

"After a cold winter caused potenti

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