{"id":327,"date":"2018-10-14T21:53:29","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T01:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/aaecext\/?p=327"},"modified":"2018-10-14T21:53:29","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T01:53:29","slug":"hurricane-michael-hit-georgia-pecans-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/aaecext\/2018\/10\/hurricane-michael-hit-georgia-pecans-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Michael Hit Georgia Pecans Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0Esendugue Greg Fonsah, Doug Collins, Lenny Wells and Will Hudson<\/p>\n<p>Hurricane Michael arrived the heart of Georgia pecans producing areas in the early morning of Wednesday October 10, 2018 and left a devastating blow to the entire industry.\u00a0 Speaking with County Agents and Specialists, Mitchell, Lee, and Dougherty Counties that contribute to a third of total Georgia pecans suffered close or more than 50%.\u00a0 The hurricane came at the most vulnerable time imagine.\u00a0 Pecans crops that were close to harvest were destroyed.\u00a0 Several pecan trees and nuts were knocked down.\u00a0\u00a0 Other producing areas such as Peach, Crisp, Leesburg and Bainbridge were affected with varying losses ranging from 20- 40% according to initial reports.\u00a0 There were also structural damage.\u00a0 Although initial loss is valued at about $200 million, this might change quickly after a comprehensive assessment is carried out.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-328\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/aaecext\/files\/2018\/10\/2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/aaecext\/files\/2018\/10\/2.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/aaecext\/files\/2018\/10\/2-184x138.jpg 184w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Courtesy of Dr. Lenny Wells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0Esendugue Greg Fonsah, Doug Collins, Lenny Wells and Will Hudson Hurricane Michael arrived the heart of Georgia pecans producing areas in the early morning of Wednesday October 10, 2018 and left a devastating blow to the entire industry.\u00a0 Speaking with County Agents and Specialists, Mitchell, Lee, and Dougherty Counties that contribute to a third of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":253,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/aaecext\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/aaecext\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/aaecext\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/aaecext\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/253"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/aaecext\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/aaecext\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/aaecext\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions\/330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/aaecext\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/aaecext\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/aaecext\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}