"It freezes the moisture in the shoots and then it's just like a blowtorch coming along and burning it off,"he said.
"We may get one bunch on that secondary bud instead of two, so we might get a crop that is 30 to 40 per cent of a normal crop,"he said.
"We've just come off of three really bad years and this was just another nail in the coffin."
"This is a disaster and it's actually pretty well a national disaster."
"There's a lot of costs getting contracts in to do that and then finding markets when you don't normally have a market for it."
"I guess there's always an opportunity to look at that again but, at this stage, it's not covered."
"I know there is going to be something good come out of this."