https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220701-how-heatwaves-ar…
A variety of crops will have substantially lower yields and/or less nutritional value due to high heat.
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A variety of crops will have substantially lower yields…
Note that the article has no numbers for how yields have changed as the world has been warming. For example, it looks at tomatoes. Over a 20 year period, world tomato yields increased 47% (1998 and 2018).
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/tomato-yields?tab=table&a…
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And then there’s damage from cold, which hopefully will decrease with a warming world.
Washington, Northwest cherry growers expect later, lighter harvest
www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/business/washington-northwes….
Earlier in May, Thurlby predicted weather-related issues such as flowers damaged from the cold and a lack of pollination would reduce this year’s cherry crop by 35% compared to average volumes over the past five seasons. April snowfall on the cherry blossoms was stunning to see, but Thurlby said extended low temperatures in the 30s caused more crop loss…
As researchers and professors with the Washington State University horticulture program have noted, temperatures below 55 degrees tend to keep bees in their hives instead of pollinating flowers…
Growers from all five states predicted a regionwide cherry harvest of 136,000 tons, or 13.6 million 20-pound boxes of dark sweet and yellow/Rainier cherries. There were 203,000 tons shipped in 2021, a year that saw record-setting heat…
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203/136 = 49% higher production last year
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Washington, Northwest cherry growers expect later, lighter harvest
www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/business/washington-northwes……
Earlier in May, Thurlby predicted weather-related issues such as flowers damaged from the cold and a lack of pollination would reduce this year’s cherry crop by 35% compared to average volumes over the past five seasons. April snowfall on the cherry blossoms was stunning to see, but Thurlby said extended low temperatures in the 30s caused more crop loss…
Across a big chunk of the northern US, this year typical March weather persisted into early June, followed by three weeks of typical April weather. From personal experience I can say this extended from Indiana through western Montana. Apparently it reached further westward at least to the Cascades. Possibly further eastward as well.
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