Raccoons?
Dam, I can relate to this story but in a small way.
Planted an apple tree for my daughter 5 years ago. Finally the tree produced apples and I was ready to harvest a few days ago.
They were all gone. I figure either the HOA maintenance people took them or a homeless person got them.
But either way, I had planted and watered the tree and didn’t get to harvest the fruit.
will they have doughnuts?
Curious that they give the quantity as 22,000 apples. Also estimated at 7,000 lbs, which would be about nine 18 bushel boxes.
Jonagolds are a pretty high-value variety.
““It would have to be somebody who would not have to distinguish between ripe and not ripe apples. Because they took them both,” said Matthew. “
How do you distinguish ripe from non-ripe when it is dark?
Check the local imported farm labor
Someone stole a bunch of pumpkins up there not long ago.
I put up deer cams.
Turned out the thieves stripping my fruit trees were little old ladies, with the help of their meth-head offspring.
They were running a jam-cannery down at the senior citizens’ home & selling the products at the church bazaar.
Which was what I had intended to do.
Some bad apples did it
““It would have had to be three or four trucks,” said Matthew. At least a crew of nine,” added Ryan.
That’s a lot of trucks and people - no one saw anything? How far away from buildings/homes is the orchard? Is it so desolate not even cars on a highway in the middle of the night would have seen anything? They had to use lights so someone should have seen something!!
Doesn’t look like any apple orchard I grew up with in upstate NY...Not even mature trees in that video. I couldn’t catch the name of the apple but it could be just a smaller tree for whatever kind it was...
Wonder what they hauled them away in - did they steal the crates too?
That has been happening with nuts and other crops.
Many people are just getting really sorry.