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Stone fruit harvest in NSW hurt by disease and floods and prices are expected to rise as a result ABC Rural/By Hamish Cole Posted Mon 16 Jan 2023 at 6:59am Consumers in New South Wales can expect to see a rise in the cost of stone fruits following a poor harvest brought on by record rainfall in late 2022. The flood-affected Central \\West and Riverina are two of the largest regions in the state for growing summer fruits such as peaches, nectarines, plums and apricots. Orchard owner Paula Charnock, based in Orange, said conditions had been challenging. *Unfortunately, it is not a great apricot season; when they were in flower we were having lots of rain and the bees couldn't get out so we had very poor pollination,\" Ms Charnock said. "The ones that did set, a lot of them just fell off because of the rain so we have a very light apricot crop this year\