{"id":12871,"date":"2017-10-24T11:36:51","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T15:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=12871"},"modified":"2017-10-24T11:36:51","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T15:36:51","slug":"cool-weather-causing-problems-for-texas-panhandle-cotton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/10\/cool-weather-causing-problems-for-texas-panhandle-cotton\/","title":{"rendered":"Cool weather causing problems for Texas Panhandle cotton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Cotton Grower<\/em> magazine noted this week that Texas cotton growers in the Panhandle are worried about their cotton yields this fall after a cool summer reduced the heat units needed for development.\u00a0 Because of the delay in reaching maturity, they are now worried about the impact of fall frost, which could come as early as next week. Rain also caused problems both in planting and in affecting the bolls in early October, potentially reducing quality of the lint. You can read the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cottongrower.com\/cotton-production\/harvest\/cool-weather-problems-for-texas-panhandle-cotton\/?utm_source=realmagnet&amp;utm_medium=newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=10242017+cgenews&amp;omhide=true\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2364\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2364\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/03\/Cotton_field_Brooks_County.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2364\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/03\/Cotton_field_Brooks_County-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/03\/Cotton_field_Brooks_County-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/03\/Cotton_field_Brooks_County-184x138.jpg 184w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/03\/Cotton_field_Brooks_County.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2364\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: USDA ARS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cotton Grower magazine noted this week that Texas cotton growers in the Panhandle are worried about their cotton yields this fall after a cool summer reduced the heat units needed for development.\u00a0 Because of the delay in reaching maturity, they are now worried about the impact of fall frost, which could come as early as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":2364,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12871","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\/12871","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=12871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12872,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12871\/revisions\/12872"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}