USA: A promising season for New Jersey blueberries

Published 2024년 6월 18일

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New Jersey is anticipating an excellent blueberry harvest in 2023 due to favorable winter and spring conditions, which have created an ideal balance between leaves, new growth, and fruit. While mid-season storms have posed challenges in previous years, the current outlook is promising for a full crop of high-quality berries. Most of the blueberries are sold fresh to big-box stores, traditional retailers, and farm stands across the U.S. and Canada. However, farmers are concerned about labor issues and potential legislative changes, such as a heat stress bill.

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New Jersey has had an excellent winter and spring, creating the perfect conditions for blueberry growers to harvest a full crop of bigger, better, tastier berries. "Things are looking very good right now," said Denny Doyle, president of the New Jersey Blueberry Industry Advisory Council. In 2023, New Jersey had a robust blueberry crop. However, mid-season storms wreaked havoc. "It was very regional and certain areas received more rain than others," Doyle explained. "The overall result was that it got pretty tough here for fresh and New Jersey is really a great fresh packaging state." The average New Jersey blueberry crop is around 40 million pounds, of which 32 million are sold fresh and 8 million are sold frozen. This year, the projections are promising. "The relationship between leaves, new growth and fruit is wonderful this year," notes Doyle. "Some years, we have more vegetative growth, which shortens the harvest or is so heavy that the blueberry plant has some difficulty," he ...

Source: MXfruit