The UGA Weather Network has 86 sites around Georgia. One of them is at Mixon Farms near Waycross. I was saddened to read this story in Vegetable and Specialty Crop News today. The storms that passed through southern Georgia last week dropped tornadoes and hail as they moved through the area. One of the storms dropped golf-ball sized hail on the Mixon Farms’ blueberry fields, wiping out their entire crop in just about a minute, knocking down many berries and bruising the ones left on the bushes. They lost an estimated 5 million pounds of blueberries according to the article at https://vscnews.com/blueberry-farmer-lost-crop-hailstorm/. One of the heartbreaks of extreme weather and its effects on farms and farmers!
