TRAVERSE CITY — Michigan’s official apple harvest is projected at 30 million bushels this year, according to the Michigan Apple Committee — a figure that suggests a strong season. But the numbers alone don’t capture the challenges growers and worker advocates say could influence how the season unfolds.

Broader forces, like trade pressures and workforce shifts, are felt even in northern Michigan, where growers like Isaiah Wunsch of Wunsch Farms say that what happens in distant markets can ripple into their orchards.

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