Fruit
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I’ve seen some articles online indicating that they think the smoky conditions from the fires in the California wine country this year could devastate the production of wine, leading to a smoky, burned flavor that would doom the wines. It was interesting to read this article in Food & Wine today which points out that…
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While the wildfires in California are still burning, we are starting to see some assessments of the toll that it is taking on California agriculture, in particular on the wineries. The California Climate & Agriculture Network posted a story earlier this weekend on some preliminary estimates of costs to crops, livestock, cannibis and wine grapes…
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Farmers still have a long way to go to recover from the winds and rain of Irma, almost a month after the storm hit. The Tampa Bay Times has an interesting story about impacts of Irma on one Florida blueberry grower, who lost roughly 100,000 plants to the storm. You can read it at https://tbo.com/news/weather/hurricanes/dade-city-blueberry-farm-still-recovering-after-100000-plants-damaged-by/2340576
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While fires burn up the vineyards in northern California, wineries in France are also having problems due to the weather. Conde Nast Traveler reported this week that France is expected to produce its lowest amount of wine in 60 years. According to the story, “the drop in wine production is traced back to spells of…
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If you have trees that have been blown over by Hurricane Irma or local strong winds, you may be able to assist them into an upright position again, according to this article by Dario Chavez posted in Growing Georgia. The key is to be gentle and to not force the tree upright. It’s also important…
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Here are a couple of new video series that you might enjoy watching related to climate and agriculture. The first is ABC News Food Forecast featuring Ginger Zee from Good Morning America (a former student of my husband) about how weather and climate impacts our food. You can see the list of videos at https://abc.go.com/shows/food-forecast/episode-guide.…
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If you grow specialty crops in the Southeast, you may be interested in this pair of studies which look at the vulnerability of specialty crops in California and in the Midwestern US to changes in climate that are expected to occur over the next fifty years, including changes in the temperatures and growing seasons as…