{"id":6733,"date":"2016-04-14T22:20:24","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T02:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=6733"},"modified":"2016-04-14T22:20:36","modified_gmt":"2016-04-15T02:20:36","slug":"southeast-blueberries-delayed-due-to-cool-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/04\/southeast-blueberries-delayed-due-to-cool-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"Southeast blueberries delayed due to cool weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Packer<\/em> posted a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepacker.com\/news\/blueberry-markets-wait-may-surge?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWldKaE1qTTFNMlV6TkRGbSIsInQiOiJUdUdhdmVGbUxkWGlSUFNMNkRKR1pwakFyY3FQcXFBdnRZeGRFVG5xSjliV2ZMZ1VId3k3cWpFN01EaGxyVW53Z1dZdzBubVd2andNTjNBcDRtazNRWGx0eXoyYWtFcUFhMTVJTWEwSjRhdz0ifQ%3D%3D\">story<\/a> this week about delays in harvesting of blueberries from Florida and Georgia as well as frost in North Carolina that may reduce volumes this year. \u00a0At the same time, California&#8217;s yields are doing well due to ideal weather. \u00a0The combination of these conditions may lead to a lower than usual amount of blueberries available in April with most blueberries reaching the market in May, which could reduce prices then.<\/p>\n<p>Florida and Georgia blueberries are running about ten days behind normal due to a cool growing season, according to <em>The Packer<\/em>, and may also have lost some volume due to the low number of chill hours this winter, with December so far above normal in temperature. \u00a0Heavy winds this week in Georgia may also have caused some losses.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1144\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1144\" style=\"width: 199px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/10\/blueberries-ars-d638-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1144\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/10\/blueberries-ars-d638-1-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"Source: ARS\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/10\/blueberries-ars-d638-1-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/10\/blueberries-ars-d638-1-91x138.jpg 91w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/10\/blueberries-ars-d638-1.jpg 426w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1144\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: ARS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Packer posted a story this week about delays in harvesting of blueberries from Florida and Georgia as well as frost in North Carolina that may reduce volumes this year. \u00a0At the same time, California&#8217;s yields are doing well due to ideal weather. \u00a0The combination of these conditions may lead to a lower than usual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":1144,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6733","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\/6733","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=6733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6734,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6733\/revisions\/6734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}