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–18 season were due to hurricane damage sustained in 2017. The yield of solids was also reported on a tree basis and an area basis and followed the same general pattern as fruit yield ( Fig. 6 ). On a tree basis, the yield of solids was highest under HDS

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locations experienced severe summer droughts, whereas the Mississippi location was in the path of Hurricane Katrina in Aug. 2005. Correlations between LO and FR, HT and FR, and HT and LO were statistically significant ( P < 0.01), but weak. The strongest

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initiated by an adverse environmental event that causes severe crop reduction in a particular year as happened after the three hurricanes that struck Florida in 2004. Historically, Statewide average yields/ha of mature ‘Valencia’ trees tended to alternate

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and Methods Field trials were conducted at the University of Florida, North Florida Research and Education Center—Suwannee Valley in Live Oak, FL. The soil series was characterized as Hurricane - Sandy, siliceous, thermic Oxyaquic Alorthods

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in 2003–04 ( NASS, 2016a ). It is also down substantially from the post hurricane crop of 170.2 million boxes produced in 2007–08. The NASS estimate for the 2015–16 grapefruit crop is 10.85 million 85-lb boxes, down from 40.9 million boxes produced in

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( VanArman et al., 1998 ), of which ≈70% falls during the wet period (June–October). A large proportion of rainfall in Florida results from tropical storms and hurricanes, which produce high rainfall volumes in a short time period. The year-to-year variation

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adapted well to the southern Louisiana growing conditions. In more recent post-hurricane (Katrina and Isaac) years, the Louisiana citrus industry has suffered immensely as a result of flooding, wind, and saltwater intrusions ( Burdeau, 2005 ; Buskey, 2012

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surrounding adult lemon trees severely affected by mal secco. Figure 2 also shows that 2022 was the year in which the symptoms were generally more severe. The severe symptoms observed in 2022 might have been favored by a hurricane-like storm in Oct 2021

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, Baton Rouge, LA 70803-1068 On 29 Aug. 2005 Hurricane Katrina caused significant flooding of the New Orleans metropolitan area for durations of up to 4 weeks in certain locations. A study to evaluate the differential urban landscape plant survival was

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no extreme weather events (i.e., hurricanes). In that season, the average yield per tree was 1.37 boxes, and the on-tree price was $11.82 per box. For each treatment that we analyze, we compute the yield change in percentage terms relative to the

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