{"id":25533,"date":"2023-03-27T18:58:36","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T22:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=25533"},"modified":"2023-03-27T18:58:47","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T22:58:47","slug":"late-freeze-causes-severe-damage-to-ms-blueberries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2023\/03\/late-freeze-causes-severe-damage-to-ms-blueberries\/","title":{"rendered":"Late freeze causes severe damage to MS blueberries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The late freezes in the Southeast have caused a lot of problems for peach and blueberry growers here in the Southeast, but it also affected blueberries in Mississippi, according to MSU Extension. While it is too early to get a final tabulation of losses, they expect to see a reduction of about 50% of the commercial crop is lost. Some farms experienced a near-total loss while others with slower blooming varieties or warmer temperatures had less damage. You can read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/extension.msstate.edu\/news\/feature-story\/2023\/late-freeze-causes-severe-damage-ms-blueberries\">http:\/\/extension.msstate.edu\/news\/feature-story\/2023\/late-freeze-causes-severe-damage-ms-blueberries<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/03\/frozen-blueberries-ap.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/03\/frozen-blueberries-ap-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/03\/frozen-blueberries-ap.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/03\/frozen-blueberries-ap-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/03\/frozen-blueberries-ap-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/03\/frozen-blueberries-ap-207x138.jpg 207w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">This is what blueberries in Georgia look like after last week\u2019s freeze. (AP Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The late freezes in the Southeast have caused a lot of problems for peach and blueberry growers here in the Southeast, but it also affected blueberries in Mississippi, according to MSU Extension. While it is too early to get a final tabulation of losses, they expect to see a reduction of about 50% of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":10499,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-fruit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25534,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25533\/revisions\/25534"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}