{"id":516,"date":"2018-05-23T19:31:09","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T23:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/?p=516"},"modified":"2018-05-25T16:20:08","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T20:20:08","slug":"blueberry-harvest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/2018\/05\/blueberry-harvest\/","title":{"rendered":"Blueberry Harvest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-517\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/files\/2018\/05\/23F41C3E-4D7E-471D-A940-14C1EE4D5C54.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/files\/2018\/05\/23F41C3E-4D7E-471D-A940-14C1EE4D5C54.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/files\/2018\/05\/23F41C3E-4D7E-471D-A940-14C1EE4D5C54-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/files\/2018\/05\/23F41C3E-4D7E-471D-A940-14C1EE4D5C54-104x138.jpeg 104w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We think more about blueberries being in southeast Georgia, but Mrs. Elizabeth McIntyre has a good number of blueberries between Rochelle and FitzGerald that are that are ready for harvest now. About 90% of highbush\u00a0are ready to be harvested, and rain and cloudy weather is not helping.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-519\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/files\/2018\/05\/3DB5C9E0-D5B2-4A9F-980E-76A7264EEF62.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/files\/2018\/05\/3DB5C9E0-D5B2-4A9F-980E-76A7264EEF62.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/files\/2018\/05\/3DB5C9E0-D5B2-4A9F-980E-76A7264EEF62-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/files\/2018\/05\/3DB5C9E0-D5B2-4A9F-980E-76A7264EEF62-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/files\/2018\/05\/3DB5C9E0-D5B2-4A9F-980E-76A7264EEF62-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/files\/2018\/05\/3DB5C9E0-D5B2-4A9F-980E-76A7264EEF62-138x138.jpeg 138w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The biggest issue that they are having, of course, is the rain. We can\u2019t harvest of blueberries when the berries and leaves are wet. They are Using a blower similar to a pecan sprayer, and running between the rows to literally drive off the leaves and berries. And it is working, but with the rain every day it makes it very difficult.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-518\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/files\/2018\/05\/5C2D5248-B86E-4878-8957-61CE1FF8F7B9.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/files\/2018\/05\/5C2D5248-B86E-4878-8957-61CE1FF8F7B9.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/files\/2018\/05\/5C2D5248-B86E-4878-8957-61CE1FF8F7B9-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/files\/2018\/05\/5C2D5248-B86E-4878-8957-61CE1FF8F7B9-104x138.jpeg 104w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We think more about blueberries being in southeast Georgia, but Mrs. Elizabeth McIntyre has a good number of blueberries between Rochelle and FitzGerald that are that are ready for harvest now. About 90% of highbush\u00a0are ready to be harvested, and rain and cloudy weather is not helping. The biggest issue that they are having, of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":227,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blueberries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":542,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions\/542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}