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Frost Risk Continues Until May 5th for North Jersey

This video from NJ Today, featuring grower Adam Costello and Ag Agent Win Cowgill, concerns the freeze that occurred in the last week of March and the importance of staying alert for frost warnings until the risk is over. Based on the National Weather Service prediction of a major freeze, the DEP granted an emergency exemption allowing commercial farmers to use open burning in orchards, protecting the buds from freeze injury.