{"id":19747,"date":"2020-06-25T19:50:36","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T23:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=19747"},"modified":"2020-06-25T19:50:39","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T23:50:39","slug":"wsb-farmers-say-this-years-georgia-peach-crop-is-near-perfect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2020\/06\/wsb-farmers-say-this-years-georgia-peach-crop-is-near-perfect\/","title":{"rendered":"WSB: Farmers say this year\u2019s Georgia peach crop is near perfect"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In spite of a lot of worry on the part of peach farmers this year with a warm winter limiting chill hours and some late frosts occurring after a warm start to the season, Georgia peach producers are welcoming an abundance of peaches this year. According to a story by WSB television, the weather this season ended up being almost perfect, with about an inch of rain falling every week. Producers were also worried about demand and potential issues in harvesting due to COVID-19 but have found that neither has been much of an issue. You can view the story or read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsbtv.com\/news\/local\/atlanta\/farmers-say-this-years-georgia-peach-crop-is-near-perfect\/5JJWE3USXZA4FJQY7CEDIOTUTA\/?fbclid=IwAR1ihzoVaEeFePRF4VxJ2gFI06G_KtNLj9b44RRdd46UcYvgOrkE2WE3JaI\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"430\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/03\/peaches-ars-springprince.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/03\/peaches-ars-springprince.jpg 640w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/03\/peaches-ars-springprince-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/03\/peaches-ars-springprince-205x138.jpg 205w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption>Source: USDA ARS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In spite of a lot of worry on the part of peach farmers this year with a warm winter limiting chill hours and some late frosts occurring after a warm start to the season, Georgia peach producers are welcoming an abundance of peaches this year. According to a story by WSB television, the weather this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":2322,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19747","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\/19747","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=19747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19748,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19747\/revisions\/19748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}