Warmer winter poses long-term crop problems

The unseasonably warm temperatures and dry conditions this January are posing long-term problems for some crops and for flowering fruit trees that already have begun to bud.

Flowering trees, especially those that will bear fruit this year, are mistaking the warm weather for spring, according to University of Idaho Elmore County Extension Agent Mir-M. Seyedbagheri, who said he has had a number of reports that apple trees, for example, are blooming right now.

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