<p style="text-indent:0px; line-height:12px;"><span style="font-weight:bold;">New South Wales, Australia-</span><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">By ANUK Staff<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">2.1.13</p><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><p><img src="https://cdn.andnowuknow.com/legacyWriterImages/austrailain-blue-2.jpeg" alt="Australian Bluberries" />Unseasonably warms temperatures in January have severely damaged blueberry production in New South Wales, Australia.<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">Tumbarumba-based Jolly Berries expects to harvest less than half of last season’s haul, mainly due to the hot weather, according to ABC Australia.<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">Grower Molly Crozier commented on the struggling berries. "They went black and then they started to shrivel and the bush actually shut down," she said.<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">"To save itself, the fruit was sacrificed and then it wouldn't come back.”<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">“The bush wouldn't come back.”<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">"We tried to pump water in it and it give it a bit more fertilizer but the next lot of berries just wouldn't come on, they wouldn't size up, they stayed as they were."<img src="https://cdn.andnowuknow.com/legacyWriterImages/austrailain-blue-3.jpeg" alt="Australian Bluberries" />The variety that is currently being picked has already suffered at the hands of frost in November.<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">The property is looking to harvest 35 tons of blueberries this year, down from 90 tons last season, and is looking to use more of its second-grade berries as wine and jam. <img src="https://cdn.andnowuknow.com/legacyWriterImages/austrailain-blue-1.jpeg" alt="Australian Bluberries" /><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><a class="btn btn-sm btn-primary col-lg-12" style="white-space: normal;" href="http://www.jollyberries.com.au/home.aspx" target="_new">Jolly Berries</a></p><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">
