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Mara Hoplamazian

A bad apple season has some U.S. fruit growers planning for life in a warmer world

Chuck and Diane Southers' apple orchard stretches over about 30 hilly acres in Concord, New Hampshire. A hard freeze in May killed most of their apple crop. (Mara Hoplamazian/NHPR)

CONCORD, N.H. — Chuck and Diane Southers' thermal alarm went off around 10:30 p.m. on a fateful night in mid-May.

The alarm takes the temperature out in their 30-acre orchard and blares loudly if it dips too low. That Thursday night in Concord, New Hampshire, it was about 35 degrees Fahrenheit. The temperature kept getting colder.

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