Georgia Climate Stories Presents, “Blueberries – Waynesboro, GA”

November 7, 2019

To kick off the 2019 Georgia Climate Conference, the Georgia Climate Project held a screening of the Georgia Climate Story “Blueberries – Waynesboro, GA” as a part of the conference’s opening plenary.

Georgia’s $70 billion agricultural industry is already being impacted by a changing climate, and these changes are likely to intensify in the decades ahead. Agriculture can also play a critical role in reducing the states carbon footprint. As told by blueberry farmer Dick Byne, “our losses have been happening earlier and earlier. The last three years have been devastating. If it’s going to change, and it will continue to change like it has for the last three years, then we’ve got to change the varieties we put in the ground, we’re going to change our market strategy, [and] we’re going to have to change what we do as far as preventing the freeze that could happen again…”

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This story was produced by Michael A. Schwarz and made possible by the Ray C. Anderson Foundation and the Glenn Family Foundation.