Dilsen-Stokkem –
Fruit grower Patrick Colson from Rotem discovered on Monday that 3,000 apple trees on his plantation along the Maas have been uprooted by two windfalls. “The yield of 60 tons of apples has been lost,” he mourns. “2020 was a top year for the apples. Unfortunately, almost a third of my harvest is only good as a peel apple. I am 57 years old and I no longer have the courage to replant this plot with Jonagold.”
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Patrick Colson has large parcels of fruit trees on Boyerweg between the old Maas in Dilsen and the Boyen aan de Maas residential center in Stokkem. “Last Tuesday there was a first fall wind in which 400 trees …
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