LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A late spring freeze in May damaged more than Nebraska’s mainstay corn crops. Growers say the freeze wiped out the state’s strawberries and hit vineyard grapes hard.

The May 16 freeze that sent temperatures as low as the upper 20s in some parts of southeast Nebraska wiped out most strawberry crops in the area.

Beverly Schaefer, who owns Roca Berry Farm with her husband, says their two-acre patch was destroyed.

Schaefer says not only did the freeze take away her strawberry revenue, it also means the loss of berry-picking jobs for about 30 local teens.

Area vineyards report 30 to 50 percent losses to their grape crops from the freeze.