Maine's blueberry crop faces climate change peril

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Maine’s wild blueberry fields are home to one of the most important fruit crops in New England, and scientists have found they are warming at a faster rate than the rest of the state.

In data from the last three decades, there is much less precipitation in the West, meaning more droughts for Southern California, Nevada and Arizona. Much of the country is getting warmer.PORTLAND, Maine -- Maine's beloved wild blueberry fields are home to one of the most important fruit crops in New England, and scientists have found they are warming at a faster rate than the rest of the state.

The scientists analyzed 40 years of data and found that the state experienced a 1.1 degrees Celsius increase in average temperature, but the blueberry fields of Down East Maine experienced an increase of 1.3 degrees Celsius . “What we are expecting is the temperature is going to increase a lot and we will not get as much rainfall in the summertime especially,” said Tasnim, who led a research team that published the study in the research journal Water earlier this year. “What that will mean for the wild blueberry plants is they will be water stressed.”

The wild blueberry industry in Maine has struggled somewhat in recent years due to factors such as last year's drought and volatile markets. Farmers produced 47.4 million pounds of Maine wild blueberries last year, and that was the lowest number since 2004.

 

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If we keep ignoring the ClimateCrisis , Blureberrys will be our smallest problem soon.

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