{"id":1611,"date":"2014-12-19T11:10:12","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T16:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=1611"},"modified":"2014-12-19T11:10:12","modified_gmt":"2014-12-19T16:10:12","slug":"black-shank-disease-in-tobacco-linked-to-april-rains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2014\/12\/black-shank-disease-in-tobacco-linked-to-april-rains\/","title":{"rendered":"Black shank disease in tobacco linked to April rains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clint Thompson of UGA published an article this week in <em>Growing Georgia<\/em> which notes the unusually large losses in tobacco this year due to black shank disease.\u00a0 He said that losses were between 4 and 5 percent of the state\u2019s 12,000-plus tobacco acres.\u00a0 The heaviest losses were in Coffee and Berrien counties, Georgia\u2019s top tobacco-producing counties.\u00a0 Most of the losses can be attributed to heavy rains in April, which washed away chemical treatments and caused favorable conditions for the growth of the infections.\u00a0 You can read the full story <a title=\"Black shank disease linked to rain 2014\" href=\"https:\/\/growinggeorgia.com\/news\/2014\/12\/georgia-tobacco-farmers-feel-sting-black-shank-disease\/?utm_source=Growing+Georgia&amp;utm_campaign=ac9937b51b-growinggeorgia-daily_newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_4643f190f7-ac9937b51b-296638373\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1612\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1612\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/12\/Field_of_Burley_tobacco_on_farm_of_Russell_Spears1a34368v.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1612\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/12\/Field_of_Burley_tobacco_on_farm_of_Russell_Spears1a34368v-300x206.jpg\" alt=\"Source: Commons Wikimedia\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/12\/Field_of_Burley_tobacco_on_farm_of_Russell_Spears1a34368v-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/12\/Field_of_Burley_tobacco_on_farm_of_Russell_Spears1a34368v-201x138.jpg 201w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/12\/Field_of_Burley_tobacco_on_farm_of_Russell_Spears1a34368v.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1612\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clint Thompson of UGA published an article this week in Growing Georgia which notes the unusually large losses in tobacco this year due to black shank disease.\u00a0 He said that losses were between 4 and 5 percent of the state\u2019s 12,000-plus tobacco acres.\u00a0 The heaviest losses were in Coffee and Berrien counties, Georgia\u2019s top tobacco-producing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":1612,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1611","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\/1611","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=1611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1613,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611\/revisions\/1613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}