{"id":2321,"date":"2015-03-12T11:49:30","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T15:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=2321"},"modified":"2015-03-12T11:51:36","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T15:51:36","slug":"peach-picking-starts-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2015\/03\/peach-picking-starts-in-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Peach picking starts in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Allison Floyd of <em>Growing Georgia<\/em> reported today that peach season has started in Florida.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the <a title=\"Growing Georgia on Florida peaches\" href=\"https:\/\/growinggeorgia.com\/features\/2015\/03\/peach-picking-starts-florida\/?utm_source=Growing+Georgia&amp;utm_campaign=b61d304bcb-growinggeorgia-daily_newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_4643f190f7-b61d304bcb-296638373\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Using new varieties that require less chill hours than traditional peaches, Florida farmers are starting to grow peaches as an alternative to citrus, which is being hampered by citrus greening and other problems.\u00a0\u00a0 According to the story, only about 1,500 acres are currently in production, but that number is expected to grow in the future.\u00a0 Because of the long growing season and ample heat, peach trees mature quickly and come into production in just a couple of years.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2322\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2322\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/03\/peaches-ars-springprince.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2322\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/03\/peaches-ars-springprince-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"Source: USDA ARS\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"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, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/03\/peaches-ars-springprince.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2322\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: USDA ARS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allison Floyd of Growing Georgia reported today that peach season has started in Florida.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the link. Using new varieties that require less chill hours than traditional peaches, Florida farmers are starting to grow peaches as an alternative to citrus, which is being hampered by citrus greening and other problems.\u00a0\u00a0 According to the story, only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":2322,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2321","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\/2321","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=2321"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2324,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321\/revisions\/2324"}],"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=2321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}