{"id":10263,"date":"2017-03-03T11:10:07","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T16:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=10263"},"modified":"2017-03-03T11:10:07","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T16:10:07","slug":"record-warmth-could-turn-into-a-disaster-for-u-s-fruit-growers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/03\/record-warmth-could-turn-into-a-disaster-for-u-s-fruit-growers\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Record Warmth Could Turn Into a Disaster for U.S Fruit Growers&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>AgWeb<\/em> published a story from <em>Bloomberg News<\/em> yesterday on the potential impacts of a hard freeze on the fruit industry this year after warm temperatures are bringing flowers to fruit trees as much as a month early this year. \u00a0You can read the story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.agweb.com\/article\/record-warmth-could-turn-into-a-disaster-for-us-fruit-growers-blmg\/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTVRZM1ltRXdZbUZrT0RBeSIsInQiOiIzWmZKNEwxTXgwOUJYbWlRSGdwUGVZT2FnMFdiS01ZU3V1Q2k4SFZrSWpHaEg1MzN3MmU1Rk01YWdMMjdvN2RZbEdtclpxbTRrNVc2OVJNNm5QTVFlS2NZRG83cStCXC9POXpSTDNpRjNVY2l1ZE1wQ0FUVmRuRWtVMk9iOWdMV3AifQ%3D%3D\">here<\/a>. \u00a0While the flowering trees might be able to withstand short periods of below-freezing temperatures, longer periods would destroy the flower buds and blooms and ruin yields for the crops.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5490\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5490\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/12\/cherry-blossoms-dc.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5490\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/12\/cherry-blossoms-dc-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/12\/cherry-blossoms-dc-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/12\/cherry-blossoms-dc-185x138.jpg 185w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/12\/cherry-blossoms-dc.jpg 616w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5490\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: gyspybug via Flickr<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AgWeb published a story from Bloomberg News yesterday on the potential impacts of a hard freeze on the fruit industry this year after warm temperatures are bringing flowers to fruit trees as much as a month early this year. \u00a0You can read the story here. \u00a0While the flowering trees might be able to withstand short [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":5490,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10263","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\/10263","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\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10264,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10263\/revisions\/10264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}