Crops
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The Vegetable Growers News this week published a story describing the calculations needed to determine if it is worthwhile to put in an irrigation system to help protect against drought. The calculations needed include consideration of a number of factors, including the frequency of drought, the cost of the equipment, and how climate is likely to…
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Estimates of damage from last week’s killing frost continue to come in. Here are a few more stories about impacts of the frost on crops in the Southeast, particularly Georgia blueberries and South Carolina peaches. But other crops have felt some impacts as well, while others largely escaped significant damage. The Packer: Georgia blueberries bear…
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While many farmers are still assessing just how bad the freeze last week was on their fruit crops, WunderBlog has produced some updated information that does not paint a good picture of the impacts on this year’s harvest. According to their report, “At least 90 percent of the peach crop in South Carolina (the nation’s…
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The hard freeze the last two nights has had significant consequences for Georgia’s fruit crops. The Packer has done a good job of pulling together an overview of some of the consequences of the bitter temperatures on strawberries, peaches and blueberries. Fortunately, the Vidalia onion crop does not appear to be affected. You can read…
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The temperature at my house this morning got down to 23 F. My azaleas are toast. I’ve seen temperatures below the killing frost level of 28 F down as far south as Valdosta in Georgia and a number of locations in northern Florida also experienced freezing temperatures. I’m curious to hear how your flowering plants…
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The Packer published a roundup of crop summaries for Florida vegetable and fruit production this year earlier this week. You can find it here. In the article they say “Following difficult, weather-related growing conditions that negatively impacted many commodities last spring, this year’s outlook has been optimistically deemed “as good as it can get.”” Nearly…
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With the cold weather we’ll be experiencing later this week, following weeks of above normal temperature, I thought this article on cold damage to alfalfa might be useful. Frost damage is most likely to occur if temperatures get to 24 F or below, which could happen in northern parts of the region on Wednesday and…