{"id":13958,"date":"2018-03-15T21:59:47","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T01:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=13958"},"modified":"2018-03-15T21:59:47","modified_gmt":"2018-03-16T01:59:47","slug":"georgia-blueberries-also-affected-by-frost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2018\/03\/georgia-blueberries-also-affected-by-frost\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia blueberries also affected by frost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to the impacts of the recent frost on Georgia peaches, blueberries have also been impacted by the cold temperatures. Farmers who used frost protection by irrigation or other means largely escaped damage but those who did not use frost protection are still assessing their losses.\u00a0 You can read more in <em>The Packer<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepacker.com\/article\/cold-clips-georgia-blueberries?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTnpVek9UUTVNR1UxTVRGbCIsInQiOiJVXC9rUGYyQ3JkVFlhSzFoY1wvXC92T0VkVmF3MDhteTlTZ0ZRUEZcL1FtNkx4b0ZKMFNkXC93WFIybnpGaktPazNHUkVGXC9mT0RYOWVzcGFkZnhBTnRTTjRKbzVCZTVwWmtqU05JekdzZHZMSktqaFNBa2l3ZEthMEpcL29HZzZ1NHRGNDEifQ%3D%3D\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10491\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10491\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/03\/georgia-blueberry-freeze-2017-kemerait.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10491\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/03\/georgia-blueberry-freeze-2017-kemerait-300x156.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/03\/georgia-blueberry-freeze-2017-kemerait-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/03\/georgia-blueberry-freeze-2017-kemerait-768x399.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/03\/georgia-blueberry-freeze-2017-kemerait.jpg 770w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/03\/georgia-blueberry-freeze-2017-kemerait-266x138.jpg 266w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10491\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blueberries in Appling County, Ga., March 16 coated in a layer of ice from irrigation water in an effort to protect them from a severe freeze which appears to have devastated Georgia\u2019s 2017 blueberry crop. Source: Bob Kemerait.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to the impacts of the recent frost on Georgia peaches, blueberries have also been impacted by the cold temperatures. Farmers who used frost protection by irrigation or other means largely escaped damage but those who did not use frost protection are still assessing their losses.\u00a0 You can read more in The Packer\u00a0here. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":10491,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13958","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\/13958","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=13958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13959,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13958\/revisions\/13959"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}