Pacific Northwest Growers Can Protect Plants from Heat Waves and Still Have a Good Harvest
Written by: Allison Troutner
Pacific Northwest Growers Can Protect Plants from Heat Waves and Still Have a Good Harvest
With extreme heat come other obstacles like reduced access to water, wildfire smoke and declining worker morale.
Pacific Northwest heat waves have been challenging growers—and their plants—since June. What do these extreme heat waves mean for hemp crop harvest this fall?
Gordon Jones is an assistant professor of general agriculture based at the Southern Oregon Research and Extension Center for Oregon State University. Jones says well established hemp plants, transplanted in good conditions with proper root growth, can withstand a fair amount of heat stress—as long as they have access to water.
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