Fruit
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According to the Southeast Farm Press, “With the 2020 harvest kicking off, all signs show Georgia’s pecan crop will be the largest in more than a decade and set the state back on top.” I’ve been hearing reports of pecan trees with such heavy loads of nuts that producers have been concerned that strong winds…
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Strawberry planting is underway and in some places is almost done in the Southeast. Now growers are watching for the cold outbreak that will bring widespread frost to the area. The cold temperatures could cause damage to the newly planted strawberries if frost comes before the young plants are sufficiently hardened off. This cold damage…
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Munich Re, the international insurance company, has an interesting story on the combination of warmer winters and later frosts that are affecting crops in Europe. It begins, ” In the second and third ten-day periods of April, and in some cases even over the first ten days of May 2017, western, central, southern and eastern…
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This year’s crop of pecans has been very bountiful and the trees have been loaded with nuts. With such an active tropical season, producers have been concerned about the possibility of losing a large portion of those nuts as well as seeing damage to trees from tropical winds, as happened with Irma and Michael in…
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The USDA Southeast Climate Hub has recently expanded their list of guides for hurricane preparation and recovery. There are guides available for each state but there are also guides available for many different commodities and agricultural products in the region. The guides include livestock, forests, forage, and even beekeeping in addition to several specialty and…
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If you have been following the news, you can’t help but notice all of the stories about the wildfires out west. You may be wondering how grape growers there are doing. Here is a recent story from one Oregon grape grower about what they are seeing this year and how changing climate over time has…
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If you like bubbly wine, then you may be interested in this article from Forbes.com on this year’s champagne harvest. According to the report, the annual Champagne harvest began August 17, two weeks sooner than last year following a summer of drought. The summer was also warmer than usual, which contributed to the rapid ripening…