{"id":12904,"date":"2017-10-26T15:31:51","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T19:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=12904"},"modified":"2017-10-26T21:33:45","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T01:33:45","slug":"12904","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/10\/12904\/","title":{"rendered":"Financial impacts of Irma on Florida blueberries still being calculated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Vegetable and Specialty Crop News<\/em> posted a story this week about continuing efforts to determine the losses from Hurricane Irma to blueberry production.\u00a0 \u00a0 Hurricane winds ripped many bushes right from the ground, forcing farmers to replant.\u00a0 New bushes take two years or more to begin production, which costs the farmer in lost income as well as the costs to replant acres of blueberries.\u00a0 Loss of leaves and increased exposure to sunlight can also affect the productivity of the bushes.\u00a0 You can read more at\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/vscnews.com\/uncertainty-surrounding-hurricane-damage-florida-blueberries\/\">https:\/\/vscnews.com\/uncertainty-surrounding-hurricane-damage-florida-blueberries\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12782\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12782\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/10\/blueberries-damaged-by-irma.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12782\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/10\/blueberries-damaged-by-irma-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/10\/blueberries-damaged-by-irma-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/10\/blueberries-damaged-by-irma-184x138.jpg 184w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/10\/blueberries-damaged-by-irma.jpg 664w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12782\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leonard Park, the general manager of Frogmore Fresh Farm, stands next to a row of blueberry plants damaged during Hurricane Irma. Park estimates more than 100,000 plants were damaged. [Photo by Allison Graves]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vegetable and Specialty Crop News posted a story this week about continuing efforts to determine the losses from Hurricane Irma to blueberry production.\u00a0 \u00a0 Hurricane winds ripped many bushes right from the ground, forcing farmers to replant.\u00a0 New bushes take two years or more to begin production, which costs the farmer in lost income as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":12782,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,25,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-fruit","category-tropical-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12904","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=12904"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12909,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12904\/revisions\/12909"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}