{"id":12318,"date":"2017-09-03T15:32:39","date_gmt":"2017-09-03T19:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=12318"},"modified":"2017-09-03T15:32:39","modified_gmt":"2017-09-03T19:32:39","slug":"peach-crop-failure-trend-or-anomaly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/09\/peach-crop-failure-trend-or-anomaly\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Peach crop failure: Trend or anomaly?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In spite of last year&#8217;s frost in mid-March, a lot of damage to the peach harvest in Georgia this year did not come from frost but from a lack of chill hours, since most locations in the peach areas of Georgia got much less than they really need for the trees to put out a good flush of blossoms. By comparison, peaches in South Carolina had experienced more chill hours and put out plenty of flowers, which then became susceptible to the frost that ensued. \u00a0That frost caused enormous devastation in the peach crop there. \u00a0The <em>Atlanta Journal-Constitution<\/em> has an article that discusses how peach farmers in Georgia view the last two years of low chill hours and how that might affect their future peach production <a href=\"https:\/\/ireader.olivesoftware.com\/Olive\/iReader\/AtlantaJournal\/SharedArticle.ashx?document=AJC%5C2017%5C09%5C03&amp;article=Ar03701\">here<\/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>In spite of last year&#8217;s frost in mid-March, a lot of damage to the peach harvest in Georgia this year did not come from frost but from a lack of chill hours, since most locations in the peach areas of Georgia got much less than they really need for the trees to put out a [&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-12318","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\/12318","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=12318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12319,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12318\/revisions\/12319"}],"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=12318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}