{"id":25570,"date":"2023-04-04T22:56:26","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T02:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=25570"},"modified":"2023-04-04T22:56:31","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T02:56:31","slug":"southeast-fruit-impacts-from-march-frosts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2023\/04\/southeast-fruit-impacts-from-march-frosts\/","title":{"rendered":"Southeast fruit impacts from March frosts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

With two freezing events in March after a very warm winter that got plants blooming almost a month earlier than normal, there was bound to be some damage. Fortunately, even though some orchards with early-blooming varieties of peaches were hit hard, later-blooming varieties were hit less hard and should produce a delayed crop. The decrease in the number of peaches overall plus the lack of early-blooming varieties mean that the harvest might be delayed this year and that prices are likely to be high. Fortunately, Georgia and Florida commercial blueberries were hit less hard and they were able to do frost protection. Here are some stories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Specialty Crop Industry<\/em>: Freeze Events \u2018Bad Timing\u2019 For Peaches<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Specialty Crop Industry<\/em>: Cold Weather Events Impact Early Peach Varieties<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Farm Monitor<\/em>: Georgia Peaches Impacted by Late Cold Snap<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Specialty Crop Industry<\/em>: UF Blueberry Specialist: Growers Cautiously Optimistic This Harvest Seaso<\/a>n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Drew Echols (left), co-owner of Jaemor Farms in Alto, Ga., examines peach blossoms with Georgia House of Representatives agriculture chairman Tom McCall during a mid-March agricultural tour of freeze damage.\nPhoto by Georgia Department of Agriculture<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With two freezing events in March after a very warm winter that got plants blooming almost a month earlier than normal, there was bound to be some damage. Fortunately, even though some orchards with early-blooming varieties of peaches were hit hard, later-blooming varieties were hit less hard and should produce a delayed crop. The decrease […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":11076,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25570","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\/25570","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=25570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25571,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25570\/revisions\/25571"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}