Fruit
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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/.
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Fruit Growers News published an article by UGA’s Clint Thompson this week about the peach crop in Georgia this year. While there have been some issues to the peaches due to a frost in March and some bacterial blight, overall the cold winter conditions provided plenty of chill hours and yields are up quite a…
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Tomatoes might not be the first crop you think of when you consider Iceland, way up north near the Arctic Circle in the Atlantic Ocean. But one family has made a good living growing these delicious food items by harnessing the power of geothermal energy to heat their greenhouses, producing nearly a ton of 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…