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<pre>How have growers found fruit set this season in Eastern Australia? Ours at
Rutherglen seems fair or moderate; some such word. The big winds and
horizontal rain we experienced in NE Vic (unlike last year's very hot
winds) have had some effect on pollination, I'd say. Negative effect, that
is. So while the crop looks OK or average, it won't be the big crop that
seemed in prospect. A couple of four-year-old trees were blown down in the
first storm.

Ian Fraser
Lyric Olives
Rutherglen, Vic 3685, Australia
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