{"id":13099,"date":"2017-11-17T09:28:15","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T14:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=13099"},"modified":"2017-11-17T09:28:15","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T14:28:15","slug":"uga-extension-pecan-specialist-optimistic-about-crop-yields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/11\/uga-extension-pecan-specialist-optimistic-about-crop-yields\/","title":{"rendered":"UGA Extension Pecan Specialist Optimistic about Crop Yields"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In spite of the damage caused by Hurricane Irma, UGA Extension Pecan Specialist Lenny Wells thinks that the final tally in pecan yields this year will be very good.\u00a0 Pecan harvest has been running about ten days ahead of usual due to weather conditions earlier this year, and harvest should be completed by early December. The total yield should be around 85 to 100 million pounds. You can read his analysis at <em>Growing Georgia<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/growinggeorgia.com\/news\/2017\/11\/uga-extension-pecan-specialist-lenny-wells-optimistic-about-crop-yields\/?utm_source=Growing+Georgia&amp;utm_campaign=3ddd2f69d9-growinggeorgia-daily_newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_4643f190f7-3ddd2f69d9-296638373\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1409\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1409\" style=\"width: 199px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/pecans-ars-k7235-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1409\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/pecans-ars-k7235-2-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/pecans-ars-k7235-2-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/pecans-ars-k7235-2-91x138.jpg 91w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/pecans-ars-k7235-2.jpg 682w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1409\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: USDA ARS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In spite of the damage caused by Hurricane Irma, UGA Extension Pecan Specialist Lenny Wells thinks that the final tally in pecan yields this year will be very good.\u00a0 Pecan harvest has been running about ten days ahead of usual due to weather conditions earlier this year, and harvest should be completed by early December. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":1409,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13099","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\/13099","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=13099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13100,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13099\/revisions\/13100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}