Missouri’s Ag Director says extreme weather has caused a 70 percent decline for the state’s wine production this year.  

Chris Chinn says farmers have faced a perfect storm. “Late last year in December, we had a really cold spell, and the weather fluctuated a lot in the last three months of the year.  It really came at a bad time when the grapes would have been budding.  Then in April, we had a late freeze, which further stressed those grape vines.”

And, she tells Brownfield, the current drought could cause long-lasting damage.

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