{"id":11734,"date":"2017-07-12T22:17:24","date_gmt":"2017-07-13T02:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=11734"},"modified":"2017-07-12T22:17:24","modified_gmt":"2017-07-13T02:17:24","slug":"carrot-industry-grows-in-ne-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/07\/carrot-industry-grows-in-ne-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Carrot industry grows in NE Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Vegetable and Specialty Crop News<\/em> posted an interesting story this week on the growth of the carrot industry in northeast Florida in recent years as producers are looking for new crops to grow.\u00a0 According to the story, the total number of acres produced in Florida is around 5,000 acres, which is small compared to bigger crops like citrus.\u00a0 However, they are expecting an increase in acreage of 10-20 percent over time, especially in organic varieties.\u00a0 You can read the story at <a href=\"https:\/\/vscnews.com\/carrot-industry-emerging-florida\/\">https:\/\/vscnews.com\/carrot-industry-emerging-florida\/<\/a>.\u00a0 I have worked with a few growers around the Southeast in the past, so am interested to see how this develops over time.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11735\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11735\" style=\"width: 252px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/07\/carrots-usda-ars.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11735\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/07\/carrots-usda-ars.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"252\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/07\/carrots-usda-ars.jpg 252w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/07\/carrots-usda-ars-207x138.jpg 207w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 252px) 100vw, 252px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11735\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: USDA ARS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vegetable and Specialty Crop News posted an interesting story this week on the growth of the carrot industry in northeast Florida in recent years as producers are looking for new crops to grow.\u00a0 According to the story, the total number of acres produced in Florida is around 5,000 acres, which is small compared to bigger [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":11735,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-crops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11734","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=11734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11736,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11734\/revisions\/11736"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}