{"id":22595,"date":"2021-10-01T21:15:33","date_gmt":"2021-10-02T01:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=22595"},"modified":"2021-10-01T21:15:39","modified_gmt":"2021-10-02T01:15:39","slug":"2021-cotton-production-issues-in-the-western-panhandle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2021\/10\/2021-cotton-production-issues-in-the-western-panhandle\/","title":{"rendered":"2021 Cotton Production Issues in the Western Panhandle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>According to IFAS\/UF Extension, &#8220;The 2021 growing season has not been a good one for cotton producers in the Western Panhandle of Florida. An overabundance of rain, lack of sunshine, and poor overall conditions has led to cotton looking less than stellar.&#8221; The excessive rain and high humidity earlier in the season caused a lot of problems with boll rot and other foliar diseases, and the warm and dry conditions now are far too late to save the crop. You can read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/nwdistrict.ifas.ufl.edu\/phag\/2021\/10\/01\/2021-cotton-production-issues-in-the-western-panhandle\/\">https:\/\/nwdistrict.ifas.ufl.edu\/phag\/2021\/10\/01\/2021-cotton-production-issues-in-the-western-panhandle\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/10\/cotton-seed-sprouting.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/10\/cotton-seed-sprouting-576x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4662\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/10\/cotton-seed-sprouting.jpg 576w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/10\/cotton-seed-sprouting-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/10\/cotton-seed-sprouting-78x138.jpg 78w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Source: Nick McGhee from a local crop consultant.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to IFAS\/UF Extension, &#8220;The 2021 growing season has not been a good one for cotton producers in the Western Panhandle of Florida. An overabundance of rain, lack of sunshine, and poor overall conditions has led to cotton looking less than stellar.&#8221; The excessive rain and high humidity earlier in the season caused a lot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":4662,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22595","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\/22595","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=22595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22596,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22595\/revisions\/22596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}