{"id":10127,"date":"2017-02-19T18:27:41","date_gmt":"2017-02-19T23:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=10127"},"modified":"2017-02-19T18:27:41","modified_gmt":"2017-02-19T23:27:41","slug":"georgia-peach-crop-may-suffer-due-to-warm-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/02\/georgia-peach-crop-may-suffer-due-to-warm-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia peach crop may suffer due to warm winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>WABE<\/em> in Atlanta reported this week that the lack of chill hours this year is becoming a real concern to peach farmers in Georgia. \u00a0Most varieties need close to 1000 chill hours to set a good fruit crop. \u00a0Last year they had about 750 and the yields were down by 20 percent. \u00a0This year most places will be lucky to get 600. \u00a0There are some things that farmers can do to help improve fruit set and increase their yields, but a negative impact is still likely. \u00a0You can read the story at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.wabe.org\/post\/georgia-peach-crop-may-suffer-due-warmer-winter\">https:\/\/news.wabe.org\/post\/georgia-peach-crop-may-suffer-due-warmer-winter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2322\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2322\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/03\/peaches-ars-springprince.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2322\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/03\/peaches-ars-springprince-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/03\/peaches-ars-springprince-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/03\/peaches-ars-springprince-205x138.jpg 205w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/03\/peaches-ars-springprince.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2322\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: USDA ARS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WABE in Atlanta reported this week that the lack of chill hours this year is becoming a real concern to peach farmers in Georgia. \u00a0Most varieties need close to 1000 chill hours to set a good fruit crop. \u00a0Last year they had about 750 and the yields were down by 20 percent. \u00a0This year most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":2322,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-fruit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10128,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10127\/revisions\/10128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}