{"id":181057,"date":"2025-09-30T22:21:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T22:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/181057\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T22:21:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T22:21:07","slug":"wild-blueberry-crop-in-maritimes-has-taken-a-hit-from-prolonged-drought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/181057\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild blueberry crop in Maritimes has taken a hit from prolonged drought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This summer&#8217;s prolonged drought across Atlantic\u00a0Canada has had a costly impact on wild blueberry growers in New\u00a0Brunswick and Nova Scotia.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Arseneault, general manager of the N.B. Blueberries industry group, says that as this year&#8217;s harvest was wrapping up,\u00a0the total yield was 70 per cent less than the previous three-year\u00a0average.<\/p>\n<p>He said\u00a0some farmers are now thinking about selling their land to make ends meet, and they are calling for financial compensation\u00a0from the\u00a0province&#8217;s Liberal government.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the head of the Wild Blueberry Producers Association of Nova Scotia says the hot, dry weather is being blamed\u00a0for reducing yields by 55 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>Executive director Janette McDonald said higher-than-average\u00a0overnight temperatures also hurt the plants.<\/p>\n<p>North America&#8217;s wild blueberry industry is concentrated in Atlantic Canada, Quebec and Maine, where the industry\u00a0routinely\u00a0boasts of how its wild varieties produce a sweeter flavour than\u00a0their cultivated counterparts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This summer&#8217;s prolonged drought across Atlantic\u00a0Canada has had a costly impact on wild blueberry growers in New\u00a0Brunswick and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-181057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}