Fruit
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Here is advice for grape growers in North Carolina from NCSU Extension. Short answer: if your grapes are near harvest, bring them in now! Note that the discussion is good but that the information is already somewhat dated with a western trend in the projected path which makes northern Georgia a more likely target for…
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The weather this year has not been good to lemon growers, resulting in near-record high prices this summer. The weather in California has been very hot and dry, leading to reductions in production of lemons and Valencia oranges. The weather in Mexico and Chile, two other growing areas, has also impacted lemon supplies. People are…
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The Packer has run a number of stories in the last few weeks on the impacts of the western heat wave on agriculture in California. As you can imagine, the drought and heat have had some negative impacts on citrus and avocados. But garlic production is one of the biggest in decades due to weather…
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When you have blueberries to protect, any method may be considered. Here is one I have not thought of–UGA’s blueberry specialist Scott NeSmith is using a dancing tube man more commonly seen at car dealerships to grab attention to scare away birds from his precious variety trials. Early in the season the bushes only have…
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Vegetable and Specialty Crop News posted a story this week on how all of the rain we have had in the Southeast is impacting the development of several diseases on watermelons and other plants. In spite of the moist conditions, most farmers have been warding off the worst diseases by active and repeated spraying of…
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The Fruit Growers Newsletter posted a story this week describing blueberry yields across the United States this year. Unfortunately, Georgia took another hit this year from frosts following the warm February we had that encouraged the bushes to bloom early. Unlike last year, when one big frost event wiped out most of the blueberries, this…
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I love reading about foods that I love, and citrus fruit are certainly on that list. This article from Quartz provided a history of the grapefruit, a true North American fruit, although its ancestors came from China. You might enjoy reading it too. You can find it at https://quartzy.qz.com/1314705/grapefruit-and-stuff/.