With temperatures plunging across many regions of Australia farmers are forced to take radical action in a bid to save crops, but some are already badly damaged.
With temperatures plunging across many regions of Australia farmers have been forced to take radical action in a bid to save crops, but some are already badly damaged.Avocado growers are left watching fruit falling of the trees as stems freezeGrowers in South Australia's Riverland have seen temperatures drop to -5 degrees Celsius at Sunlands, about 200 kilometres north-east of Adelaide, with the Bureau of Meteorology having recorded the state's coldest temperature at -5.
"It depends on the variety, sometimes the skin gets damaged on later varieties like late mandarins or navel oranges and sometimes the internal quality gets damaged," Mr Doecke said."They don't have a lot of canopy ... it's like a burn, it ruptures the sap in the young shoots and they just look like they have been burned," Mr Walker said.To protect their trees and fruit from freezing, the Riverland growers spray their crops with a molasses magnesium-sulphur mixture.
"But the damage varies from burning leaves to even freezing stems ... when it freezes the stems of that fruit will fall on the ground." Besides the impact on tree crops, the cold temperatures also left rose and vegetables growers bearing the brunt.While roses are now shutting down for winter, the frost still had impacts on flowers in blossom, according to Ruston Roses garden manager Susan Peterson.
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