“We were predicting about 7,000 pounds of apples to be harvested over the next week period,” Spicer Orchard Harvest Manager, Matthew Spicer, told ABC 12."Basically, I was pretty upset about it, because it takes a whole year to grow apples and losing something like that, that was our up and coming varieties. Evercrisp is one of our new ones out and was kind of excited to share that with people."

On Sunday, Oct. 6, the apples on Spicer Farms supplemental orchard - located at U.S. 23 and Clyde Road in Hartland -  were reportedly not quite ripe yet. The owners usually check their crops every four days, so on Oct. 9, they decided to check again, according to ABC 7.

“There was nothing there,” Ryan Spicer, the grandson of Alan Spicer, the farm's founder discovered.

Ryan says Alan called the Genesee County Sheriff Department shortly after to report the theft.

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