Andy Tsubasa Field reports in the Times Union that apple farmers are having a tough year with a late May frost taking out much of their crop, and rainy summer weekends meant they missed income from tourist visits. Golden Harvest in Valatie said it lost about two-thirds of its apples. In Halfmoon, Alan DeVoe of DeVoe's Rainbow Orchards said the orchard only harvested a fifth of its typical crop. DeVoe said, "Because we had so little on our trees, we just made the decision to not do pick-your-own.... Customers would've walked way too far in the orchard looking for apples. They were very spread out." Then rainy weekends in August, September, and October cut revenue many farmers make from tourist visits. Mark Farrington, of Terrace Mountain Orchard in Schoharie, said they typically get over 4,000 visitors in a day during apple-picking season, but only got about a third of that this year. Farrington made changes because of the loss of revenue. He said, "We've taken the main house and turned it into a very high-end Airbnb. That's helped out. And we've just done another home on the property.... We're looking at maybe doing more of a wedding venue operation in conjunction with the orchard — investing that way as opposed to the trees. Because one is not going to be impacted by weather and Mother Nature." Read more about this story in the Times Union.