The late wet start to the growing season has been difficult for most crops, but not blueberries.
“It’s been pretty easy to manage crops so far.”
Shelly Hartman is the co-owner of True Blue Farms in Southwest
Michigan and tells Brownfield the season has been running close to two weeks
behind normal because of the cool, wet start.
“But it dried up amazingly pretty fast and we have at this point not have had any pressure from pests or disease.”
Michigan growers expect to harvest 99 million pounds of blueberries
this season, up more than 40 percent from last year after a very hot summer led
to the worst crop since 2005.
Continue reading Michigan blueberries thriving at Brownfield Ag News.
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