Fruit
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Phil Brannen, one of the UGA fruit specialists, wrote a post to peach farmers in Georgia as we prepared to experience Hurricane Ian last week discussing what kinds of damage to expect following the storm. While the storm bypassed Georgia this time, other growers in surrounding states that did get hit might find the information…
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While residents of southwest Florida as well as the Carolinas are currently still picking up from the incredible destruction of Hurricane Ian, and Puerto Ricans are dealing with power losses and damage from massive flooding that fell during Hurricane Fiona, extension agents and farmers are starting to assess the toll that the wind and rain…
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While we don’t know the status of the orange crop in Florida yet, prior to the storm making landfall speculators were concerned about a significant hit to the citrus crop from the storm, according to this article in Bloomberg (may be paywalled). Growers are already under stress due to citrus greening, and some were not…
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If you are an extension agent or producer in the Southeast, you might find these guides on hurricane preparation and recovery from the USDA Southeast Climate Hub to be very useful. There is a guide for each state in the Southeast but also a separate guide for each commodity, not just the regular commercial commodities…
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The weather last winter gave peach growers frustrating conditions in Georgia and Alabama. A cold November 2021 brought plenty of chill hours to the Southeast. Then an early warm-up caused the early blooming varieties of fruit trees to flower earlier than usual. But temperatures down to the 20s on March 13 caused significant loss of…
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All the wet conditions in the Southeast have brought another hindrance to our farmers–the lack of sunshine associated with high humidity and cloud cover as we get round after round of rain. The lack of sunshine is causing problems for farmers that need the sun’s energy to finish off crops like corn and pecans. Here…
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You might remember last spring that we had accumulated enough chill hours early in the winter that fruit trees and bushes were ready to bloom as soon as a warm spell came. And then a couple of late frosts destroyed a significant number of the blooms and young fruit after they flowered. The effects of…