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Cherrypicking. It's what all the cool scientists do.
Droughts - What Causes Droughts - What Is a Drought
Droughts - What Causes Droughts - What Is a Drought
Many think it's heat that cause droughts. Educating isn't cherry picking.
Speaking of cherries the Chilean crops will be ripe soon.
Pete likes cherries.
Importers prepare for Chilean cherry increase
By Susie Cable
Published on 11/15/2010 12:44PM
Chilean cherry exports to the U.S. are expected to increase over last year’s volumes due to better weather conditions (NOT AS COLD AS LAST YEAR) and newer orchards coming into production.
Julio Ortúzar, vice president of procurement and business development, Fresh Results LLC, Weston, Fla., said about 6.7 million boxes of cherries were exported from Chile last season. If the weather cooperates, exporters expect an increase of almost 60% for this season. Tom Tjerandsen, managing director for North America, Chilean Fresh Fruit Association, Santiago, Chile, said he expects 9 to 12 million boxes of cherries to be shipped this season from Chile to North America.
Fresh Results started packing cherries Nov. 3, Ortúzar said. The company’s cherries are grown primarily in the Curico Region in central Chile. The region received hail and heavy rain on Oct. 28. On Nov. 3, growers were still checking for damage, but Ortúzar said packing was going at a good pace.
The rains affected only some of Las Cabras, Chile-based grower-shipper Exportadora Verfrut S.A.’s early cherries, said Piero Vercellino, commercial executive in charge of U.S. and Canada markets. The company expected to begin harvesting cherries during the week of Nov. 8.
The rain in late October caused The Oppenheimer Group, Vancouver, British Columbia, to reduce its cherry volume forecast, but it still expects to market a larger volume than last year because it has added growers and it is more strategically focused on the cherry category, said Evan Myers, stone fruit category manager. There is good consumer demand for cherries, said Karin Gardner, marketing communications manager.
Oppenheimer expects up to a 10% increase in its Chilean stone fruit and grape volume, with most of it coming from cherries, Gardner said.
Meyers said the cherry crop was delayed by about a week due to cool spring temperatures, but some early varieties had already been packed by early November. They were expected to arrive by air in Miami on Nov. 11. The major varieties Oppenheimer imports from Chile are summit, bing, lapin, sweetheart, regina and van.
Dennis Christou, vice president of marketing, Del Monte Fresh Produce, Coral Gables, Fla., said that conditions in Chile have been good for the cherry crops. He said Del Monte’s volume of cherries is expected to be bigger than last season’s.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service reported this summer that Chilean stone fruit production in general was declining, except for cherry production. Tom Tjerandsen, managing director for North America, Chilean Fresh Fruit Association, Sonoma, Calif., said there’s an ongoing effort by stone fruit growers to ensure that the varieties they are growing for export to North America are the best available for eating and shipping. He said the uprooting doesn’t affect total volumes, though, because new production replaces the old orchards.
The FAS report said Chile had almost 40,000 acres of cherries planted, with about 40% still immature. Yields are expected to increase for several years as the plants mature.
Organic cherries
Organic cherry crops looked good and had a good set in October, said David Posner, president and chief executive officer, Awe Sum Organics Inc., Capitola, Calif. The volume Awe Sum ships will depend on customer demand. Because the company ships by air, it can quickly adjust volumes.
U.S. demand for cherries in the off season is not as strong as demand for blueberries, Posner said. They sell well during the domestic season, but he said demand for imported cherries isn’t increasing.
Posner said he expects shipments of organic cherries from Chile to begin in early December and last through the month.
Speaking of cherries the Chilean crops will be ripe soon.
Pete likes cherries.
Importers prepare for Chilean cherry increase
By Susie Cable
Published on 11/15/2010 12:44PM
Chilean cherry exports to the U.S. are expected to increase over last year’s volumes due to better weather conditions (NOT AS COLD AS LAST YEAR) and newer orchards coming into production.
Julio Ortúzar, vice president of procurement and business development, Fresh Results LLC, Weston, Fla., said about 6.7 million boxes of cherries were exported from Chile last season. If the weather cooperates, exporters expect an increase of almost 60% for this season. Tom Tjerandsen, managing director for North America, Chilean Fresh Fruit Association, Santiago, Chile, said he expects 9 to 12 million boxes of cherries to be shipped this season from Chile to North America.
Fresh Results started packing cherries Nov. 3, Ortúzar said. The company’s cherries are grown primarily in the Curico Region in central Chile. The region received hail and heavy rain on Oct. 28. On Nov. 3, growers were still checking for damage, but Ortúzar said packing was going at a good pace.
The rains affected only some of Las Cabras, Chile-based grower-shipper Exportadora Verfrut S.A.’s early cherries, said Piero Vercellino, commercial executive in charge of U.S. and Canada markets. The company expected to begin harvesting cherries during the week of Nov. 8.
The rain in late October caused The Oppenheimer Group, Vancouver, British Columbia, to reduce its cherry volume forecast, but it still expects to market a larger volume than last year because it has added growers and it is more strategically focused on the cherry category, said Evan Myers, stone fruit category manager. There is good consumer demand for cherries, said Karin Gardner, marketing communications manager.
Oppenheimer expects up to a 10% increase in its Chilean stone fruit and grape volume, with most of it coming from cherries, Gardner said.
Meyers said the cherry crop was delayed by about a week due to cool spring temperatures, but some early varieties had already been packed by early November. They were expected to arrive by air in Miami on Nov. 11. The major varieties Oppenheimer imports from Chile are summit, bing, lapin, sweetheart, regina and van.
Dennis Christou, vice president of marketing, Del Monte Fresh Produce, Coral Gables, Fla., said that conditions in Chile have been good for the cherry crops. He said Del Monte’s volume of cherries is expected to be bigger than last season’s.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service reported this summer that Chilean stone fruit production in general was declining, except for cherry production. Tom Tjerandsen, managing director for North America, Chilean Fresh Fruit Association, Sonoma, Calif., said there’s an ongoing effort by stone fruit growers to ensure that the varieties they are growing for export to North America are the best available for eating and shipping. He said the uprooting doesn’t affect total volumes, though, because new production replaces the old orchards.
The FAS report said Chile had almost 40,000 acres of cherries planted, with about 40% still immature. Yields are expected to increase for several years as the plants mature.
Organic cherries
Organic cherry crops looked good and had a good set in October, said David Posner, president and chief executive officer, Awe Sum Organics Inc., Capitola, Calif. The volume Awe Sum ships will depend on customer demand. Because the company ships by air, it can quickly adjust volumes.
U.S. demand for cherries in the off season is not as strong as demand for blueberries, Posner said. They sell well during the domestic season, but he said demand for imported cherries isn’t increasing.
Posner said he expects shipments of organic cherries from Chile to begin in early December and last through the month.
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Short sea-ice season threatens Hudson Bay polar bears
Published On Wed Dec 8 2010
A polar bear mother and her two cubs huddle in Wapusk National Park on the shore of Hudson Bay near Churchill, Man., in a November, 2007 file photo. Scientists say polar bear moms and their cubs in the area are suffering the worst effects of a late freeze-up of sea ice on Hudson Bay.
Jonathan Hayward/THE CANADIAN PRESS FILE PHOTO
The Canadian Press
Scientists say polar bear moms and their cubs near Churchill in northern Manitoba are suffering the worst effects of a late freeze-up of sea ice on Hudson Bay.
The bears are just now setting out for the sea ice they use as a hunting platform for seals, said University of Alberta researcher Andrew Derocher.
That’s weeks later than usual — and comes on top of an early spring thaw that drove the bears off their hunting ground nearly a month sooner than usual.
“This year’s been pretty challenging on the population,” said Derocher from Inuvik, N.W.T. “They were early off the ice and now they’re late getting on.
“Some of these bears have had a very long on-land period. A lot of the bears are just running out of steam.”
Polar bears tend not to hunt during the summer, which they spend on the land. They can burn up to a kilogram of fat a day as they wait to return to the sea ice.
Adult males are big enough to make it through the extended fast. But this summer was tough on mother bears and cubs, Derocher said.
“If you’re a mother that’s nursing cubs, if you run out of energy you stop producing milk,” he said. “Your cubs then have to rely on their own fat stores and because cubs have such low fat stores it eventually means they’re going to die.
“One of the things that was observed this year is that in at least some family groups the mothers stopped nursing and the cubs died on land. We don’t usually see that.”
Derocher said that means fewer cubs that grow to adulthood, further stressing a population that’s been in decline for years.
Churchill’s bears are frequently visited by tour groups in the fall and operators have reported that the population this year looked good.
But Derocher said the bears that are suffering aren’t likely to be nosing up to tundra buggies.
“The bears that are not doing very well typically hunker down and don’t move very much,” he said. “What we’ve seen was a lot of the bears were in poor condition.”
The worldwide population of polar bears is estimated at between 20,000 and 25,000. Of the 19 populations around the globe, eight are considered to be declining, three are stable and one is increasing. There isn’t enough known about the other seven to assess their status.
The population around Churchill is estimated at about 1,000 bears.
Toronto Star
Published On Wed Dec 8 2010
Jonathan Hayward/THE CANADIAN PRESS FILE PHOTO
The Canadian Press
Scientists say polar bear moms and their cubs near Churchill in northern Manitoba are suffering the worst effects of a late freeze-up of sea ice on Hudson Bay.
The bears are just now setting out for the sea ice they use as a hunting platform for seals, said University of Alberta researcher Andrew Derocher.
That’s weeks later than usual — and comes on top of an early spring thaw that drove the bears off their hunting ground nearly a month sooner than usual.
“This year’s been pretty challenging on the population,” said Derocher from Inuvik, N.W.T. “They were early off the ice and now they’re late getting on.
“Some of these bears have had a very long on-land period. A lot of the bears are just running out of steam.”
Polar bears tend not to hunt during the summer, which they spend on the land. They can burn up to a kilogram of fat a day as they wait to return to the sea ice.
Adult males are big enough to make it through the extended fast. But this summer was tough on mother bears and cubs, Derocher said.
“If you’re a mother that’s nursing cubs, if you run out of energy you stop producing milk,” he said. “Your cubs then have to rely on their own fat stores and because cubs have such low fat stores it eventually means they’re going to die.
“One of the things that was observed this year is that in at least some family groups the mothers stopped nursing and the cubs died on land. We don’t usually see that.”
Derocher said that means fewer cubs that grow to adulthood, further stressing a population that’s been in decline for years.
Churchill’s bears are frequently visited by tour groups in the fall and operators have reported that the population this year looked good.
But Derocher said the bears that are suffering aren’t likely to be nosing up to tundra buggies.
“The bears that are not doing very well typically hunker down and don’t move very much,” he said. “What we’ve seen was a lot of the bears were in poor condition.”
The worldwide population of polar bears is estimated at between 20,000 and 25,000. Of the 19 populations around the globe, eight are considered to be declining, three are stable and one is increasing. There isn’t enough known about the other seven to assess their status.
The population around Churchill is estimated at about 1,000 bears.
Toronto Star
Such a tragedy!
Ted Turner's 'dumb' one-child policy
The mogul-turned-environmental advocate thinks other nations should adopt China's one-child-per family policy. Let the outrage commence
Media mogul Ted Turner, a longtime advocate of population control, told attendees of the U.N.'s climate-change conference in Cancun, Mexico, that the world should adopt China's controversial one-child policy as a way to limit carbon emissions. The planet's current population of almost 7 billion will rise to 10 billion by 2050, say U.N. estimates, and Turner argued that "if we're going to be here [as a species] 5,000 years from now, we're not going to do it with seven billion people." Media wags were not amused:
Ted Turner's 'dumb' one-child policy
The mogul-turned-environmental advocate thinks other nations should adopt China's one-child-per family policy. Let the outrage commence
Media mogul Ted Turner, a longtime advocate of population control, told attendees of the U.N.'s climate-change conference in Cancun, Mexico, that the world should adopt China's controversial one-child policy as a way to limit carbon emissions. The planet's current population of almost 7 billion will rise to 10 billion by 2050, say U.N. estimates, and Turner argued that "if we're going to be here [as a species] 5,000 years from now, we're not going to do it with seven billion people." Media wags were not amused:
It is a bit unclear who Ted Turner cautioned about population explosion.
Did he mean those who produce the food that the non-producing free-loaders can't even pick up and ship to their own country, even if it given free??
Did he mean that those who produce (i.e. the Western World) cut down on their population so that the non-producers can demand even more?
Did he mean that only the white people should reduce reproduction of the species?
Did he mean that as long as you are billionaire you can spout any kind of garbage and expect to be taken seriously?
Did he mean those who produce the food that the non-producing free-loaders can't even pick up and ship to their own country, even if it given free??
Did he mean that those who produce (i.e. the Western World) cut down on their population so that the non-producers can demand even more?
Did he mean that only the white people should reduce reproduction of the species?
Did he mean that as long as you are billionaire you can spout any kind of garbage and expect to be taken seriously?
It is impossible to separate the viciously anti-human depopulation movement from that of the AGW cult. In fact the start point for radical paganistic earth worship environmentalism is its premis that the human species is a parasitic pestilence on a pristine environmental utopia.
It is integrally linked by Kyoto to the global Free Trade paradigm by carbon credits which would cede control of the productive capacity of the earth to the goals of depopulation. It is a cruel agenda that delivers a hegemony of world power to buffoons, and prospective tyrants like Ted Turner.
You can be assured that Ted Turner considers himself in a class of illuminated masters who will be allowed to live and reproduce, in a world autocracy that would limit population to 500 million, most of them slaves to the whims of Illuminati such as himself.
Late freeze of sea ice threatens Hudson Bay bears
This video includes disturbing footage of a malnourished polar bear mother and her two cubs in western Hudson Bay, Canada. Some may choose not to watch, because it includes graphic scenes of a malnourished cub experiencing seizures.
Both cubs died within two days of the November 23, 2010, filming.
As difficult as the images are to watch, they show the real-life struggle polar bears face each day trying to survive on a warming planet. Malnourishment, starvation and even cannibalism have become facts of life for polar bears in western Hudson Bay and other areas.
This video includes disturbing footage of a malnourished polar bear mother and her two cubs in western Hudson Bay, Canada. Some may choose not to watch, because it includes graphic scenes of a malnourished cub experiencing seizures.
Both cubs died within two days of the November 23, 2010, filming.
As difficult as the images are to watch, they show the real-life struggle polar bears face each day trying to survive on a warming planet. Malnourishment, starvation and even cannibalism have become facts of life for polar bears in western Hudson Bay and other areas.
Bummer looks like they'll have to eat reindeer, small rodents, seabirds, waterfowl, fish, eggs, vegetation (including kelp), berries, and human garbage.