{"id":13101,"date":"2017-11-17T10:44:20","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T15:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=13101"},"modified":"2017-11-17T10:44:20","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T15:44:20","slug":"hurricane-irma-losses-continue-to-mount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/11\/hurricane-irma-losses-continue-to-mount\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Irma losses continue to mount"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Tampa Bay Times<\/em> reported this week that losses due to the destruction of Hurricane Irma on Florida agriculture are increasing as the harvest advances. The biggest loser may be the citrus industry, which continues to see more losses as damage to the fruit from the winds comes to light. The losses to citrus alone are now estimated to exceed $1 billion. You can get more information at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/florida-politics\/buzz\/2017\/11\/16\/irma-agriculture-losses-continue-to-mount\/\">https:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/florida-politics\/buzz\/2017\/11\/16\/irma-agriculture-losses-continue-to-mount\/<\/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>The Tampa Bay Times reported this week that losses due to the destruction of Hurricane Irma on Florida agriculture are increasing as the harvest advances. The biggest loser may be the citrus industry, which continues to see more losses as damage to the fruit from the winds comes to light. The losses to citrus alone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":12475,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,25,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13101","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\/13101","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=13101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13102,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13101\/revisions\/13102"}],"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=13101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}