Fruit
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The rainy, humid and cloudy weather has had some detrimental effects on wine and table grapes in the Southeast. UGA grape specialist Cain Hickey describes some of the issues they are having in a blog post from earlier this week. You can read it at https://site.extension.uga.edu/viticulture/2018/05/what-a-long-strange-bloom-its-been/. His blog is a great source of grape-specific information for…
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The Vegetable and Specialty Crop Newsletter posted a couple of articles this weekend describing some of the problems that producers are dealing with from recent heavy rains, both those associated with Alberto and in rainfall prior to that storm’s visit. As expected, some rain has been beneficial for farmers in the Southeast as parts of…
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Extension Agent Jeff Cook has an interesting post on what all the recent rainfall is doing to crops, including peanuts and peaches, in central Georgia. You can read it on the Three Rivers Ag News blog site at https://site.extension.uga.edu/threerivers/2018/05/much-needed-rain/.
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Early reports on blueberries in North Carolina indicate that farmers there are expecting good yields of berries in spite of cold weather and frost in the first quarter of 2018, according to a report published this week by Southeast Farm Press here. North Carolina is the 6th largest producer of blueberries in the US. The…
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According to an article by The Packer this week, bush berries, including raspberries, blackberries and blueberries, have been delayed due to cold conditions in the eastern US but are slowly reaching maturity. Florida blueberries are now being harvested and should be done about mid-May but Georgia blueberries are expected to take over as the major…
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Vegetable and Specialty Crop News posted a concerning story about Georgia blueberries this week. According to the story, while blueberries appear to have missed the worst losses due to spring frosts this year, they are facing loss of yield due to lack of pollenation. Cold and windy weather in March and April following the record-setting…
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While chill hours this winter provided plenty of needed cold weather for peaches, combination of extremely warm weather in February and two separate frosts in March obliterated the peach crop in northern Florida this year, according to the Northwest District newsletter released today. Unfortunately, 2017 was also a loss for peach production there due to…