{"id":13069,"date":"2017-11-14T15:26:30","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T20:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=13069"},"modified":"2017-11-14T15:26:30","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T20:26:30","slug":"more-problems-for-pecan-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/11\/more-problems-for-pecan-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"More Problems for Pecan Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pecans are one of the most valuable crops grown in the Southeast, and the impacts of Hurricane Irma hit pecan growers pretty hard this year, with about 30% of the nuts blown off the trees in the storm.\u00a0 Trees were also blown over or dropped limbs and may need to be replaced. <em>Vegetable and Specialty Crop News<\/em> pointed out this week that it might be a problem for producers to get replacement trees from nurseries this year because the combination of increasing demand for pecans and the severe damage from the hurricane has caused a shortage in new pecan trees. You can read more at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/vscnews.com\/possible-problems-pecan-industry\/\">https:\/\/vscnews.com\/possible-problems-pecan-industry\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12444\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12444\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/09\/irma-pecan-damage.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12444\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/09\/irma-pecan-damage-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/09\/irma-pecan-damage-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/09\/irma-pecan-damage-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/09\/irma-pecan-damage-245x138.jpg 245w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/09\/irma-pecan-damage.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12444\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Georgia Agribusiness Council (Facebook page)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pecans are one of the most valuable crops grown in the Southeast, and the impacts of Hurricane Irma hit pecan growers pretty hard this year, with about 30% of the nuts blown off the trees in the storm.\u00a0 Trees were also blown over or dropped limbs and may need to be replaced. Vegetable and Specialty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":12444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,25,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13069","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\/13069","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=13069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13070,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13069\/revisions\/13070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}