{"id":14851,"date":"2018-06-27T10:52:26","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T14:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=14851"},"modified":"2018-06-27T10:52:26","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T14:52:26","slug":"rains-cause-problems-for-melon-growers-in-delmarva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2018\/06\/rains-cause-problems-for-melon-growers-in-delmarva\/","title":{"rendered":"Rains cause problems for melon growers in DelMarVa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Packer<\/em> posted a story this week about problems that watermelon producers are having with production this year due to the heavy rains they have experienced. Wet fields have hampered planting of seedlings and rains every 2-3 days have prevented application of needed chemicals to the young plants. You can read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepacker.com\/article\/rains-challenge-watermelon-season?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWmpSalpqUmhORE15WWpabCIsInQiOiIrRzhMQVg1TDFwKzJ5K1hrZytkYVdFRFE2MGFDam1PS2VOM1R6czhWczNtekQ2alRjeXdhazNWTU9QUmpFZ0p3aEdDOTNxVVFneHVyelpQaWJOTVZqNXJpQkZIYXRQa1orblFLa25MSkpaSlpuXC9EcVF4dlJHVGVxaXA2TjY2MEQifQ%3D%3D\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7116\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7116\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/05\/watermelon-plant.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7116\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/05\/watermelon-plant-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/05\/watermelon-plant-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/05\/watermelon-plant-184x138.jpg 184w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/05\/watermelon-plant.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7116\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Shu Suehiro, Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Packer posted a story this week about problems that watermelon producers are having with production this year due to the heavy rains they have experienced. Wet fields have hampered planting of seedlings and rains every 2-3 days have prevented application of needed chemicals to the young plants. You can read more here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":7116,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-crops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14851","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\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14852,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14851\/revisions\/14852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}