{"id":18262,"date":"2019-10-30T23:17:37","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T03:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=18262"},"modified":"2019-10-30T23:17:37","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T03:17:37","slug":"research-looks-at-how-cloud-cover-affects-corn-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2019\/10\/research-looks-at-how-cloud-cover-affects-corn-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Research looks at how cloud cover affects corn growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While temperature and related growing degree days help control how fast corn and other crops develop, it&#8217;s less well known that solar radiation also has an effect. If it&#8217;s warm but cloudy, the corn growth will be slower than if skies are sunny. This is one reason that we are planning to put a solar radiation calculator on our UGA weather network before the next growing season starts so that producers will have an additional way to judge corn growth rates. This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.farmprogress.com\/corn\/research-looks-how-cloud-cover-affects-corn-growth?NL=FP-004_NEW&amp;Issue=FP-004_NEW_20191029_FP-004_NEW_325&amp;sfvc4enews=42&amp;cl=article_3_b&amp;utm_rid=CPG02000002518665&amp;utm_campaign=43586&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;elq2=9eed1bc79cae4c84b29081cf50f3c2fc\">article<\/a> from <em>Nebraska Farmer<\/em> explains how solar radiation affects corn maturity.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15013\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15013\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/07\/Endless_Corn_4891686775.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15013\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/07\/Endless_Corn_4891686775-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/07\/Endless_Corn_4891686775-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/07\/Endless_Corn_4891686775-208x138.jpg 208w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/07\/Endless_Corn_4891686775.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15013\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: GCP Grey, Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While temperature and related growing degree days help control how fast corn and other crops develop, it&#8217;s less well known that solar radiation also has an effect. If it&#8217;s warm but cloudy, the corn growth will be slower than if skies are sunny. This is one reason that we are planning to put a solar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":15013,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-science","category-crops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18262","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=18262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18263,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18262\/revisions\/18263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}