{"id":21557,"date":"2021-04-13T23:28:49","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T03:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=21557"},"modified":"2021-04-13T23:28:51","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T03:28:51","slug":"southeastern-corn-growers-have-unique-challenges-opportunities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2021\/04\/southeastern-corn-growers-have-unique-challenges-opportunities\/","title":{"rendered":"Southeastern corn growers have unique challenges, opportunities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <em>Southeast Farm Press<\/em> posted a story this week about the unique challenges corn growers in the Southeast have when trying to produce a crop compared to the Midwestern Corn Belt. For one thing, in our region they have to deal with more pests and diseases that are not a problem for Iowa farmers.  The Midwestern farmers don&#8217;t have to deal with hurricanes either, although they do have strong windstorms that affect their region from time to time. You can read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.farmprogress.com\/corn\/north-carolina-corn-growers-have-unique-challenges-opportunities\">https:\/\/www.farmprogress.com\/corn\/north-carolina-corn-growers-have-unique-challenges-opportunities<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/corn-lodging-shirley-apr-2015.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/corn-lodging-shirley-apr-2015.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2808\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/corn-lodging-shirley-apr-2015.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/corn-lodging-shirley-apr-2015-184x138.jpg 184w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Source: Mitchell County Ag News<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Southeast Farm Press posted a story this week about the unique challenges corn growers in the Southeast have when trying to produce a crop compared to the Midwestern Corn Belt. For one thing, in our region they have to deal with more pests and diseases that are not a problem for Iowa farmers. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":2808,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21557","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\/21557","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=21557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21558,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21557\/revisions\/21558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}