{"id":12732,"date":"2017-10-08T15:42:56","date_gmt":"2017-10-08T19:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=12732"},"modified":"2017-10-08T15:42:56","modified_gmt":"2017-10-08T19:42:56","slug":"florida-crop-damage-from-irma-tops-2-5-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/10\/florida-crop-damage-from-irma-tops-2-5-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida crop damage from Irma tops $2.5 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Fruit Growers Newsletter<\/em> published a story this week on the economic impacts of Hurricane Irma just to Florida agriculture. The story breaks down the losses by agricultural sector, but the total overall is over $2.5 billion. And they point out that does not include the loss of future production or the cost of rebuilding infrastructure.\u00a0 You can read the article and get the link to the original report from the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services at <a href=\"https:\/\/fruitgrowersnews.com\/news\/florida-crop-damage-hurricane-irma-tops-2-5-billion\/\">https:\/\/fruitgrowersnews.com\/news\/florida-crop-damage-hurricane-irma-tops-2-5-billion\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Southeast Farm Press<\/em> posted a related story on losses to Georgia cotton and estimated that losses there could be as much as $100 million.\u00a0 You can read that story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southeastfarmpress.com\/cotton\/irma-took-cotton-and-analysis-reveals-how-much?PK=UM_SEPTOP5&amp;NL=UM_TOP5&amp;utm_rid=CPG02000002518665&amp;utm_campaign=21274&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;elq2=71f0cad17f0745068c1e2e760fbbb0a6\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12475\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12475\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/09\/flooded-citrus-grove-floridadac-post-irma-091317.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12475\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/09\/flooded-citrus-grove-floridadac-post-irma-091317-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/09\/flooded-citrus-grove-floridadac-post-irma-091317-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/09\/flooded-citrus-grove-floridadac-post-irma-091317-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/09\/flooded-citrus-grove-floridadac-post-irma-091317-184x138.jpg 184w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/09\/flooded-citrus-grove-floridadac-post-irma-091317.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12475\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Citrus groves in Florida remained under flood waters Sept. 13 after Hurricane Irma. \u201cIt\u2019s still too early to know the full extent of the damage to Florida citrus,&#8221; Florida Commissioner of Agriculture Adam Putnam said in a Sept. 13 news release.<br \/>Photo by Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fruit Growers Newsletter published a story this week on the economic impacts of Hurricane Irma just to Florida agriculture. The story breaks down the losses by agricultural sector, but the total overall is over $2.5 billion. And they point out that does not include the loss of future production or the cost of rebuilding infrastructure.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":12475,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12,18,13,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-crops","category-forestry","category-livestock","category-tropical-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12732","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=12732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12734,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12732\/revisions\/12734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}