{"id":23645,"date":"2022-02-25T15:16:30","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T20:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=23645"},"modified":"2022-02-25T15:16:32","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T20:16:32","slug":"florida-watermelon-industry-feels-impact-of-freeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2022\/02\/florida-watermelon-industry-feels-impact-of-freeze\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Watermelon Industry Feels Impact of Freeze"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Florida watermelon farmers are still assessing the impacts of the January 30 freeze that affected many parts of the state. At this point, producers are still determining how much damage to the plants has occurred, and it does not appear that the overall damage was devastating, but some production could be set back by cold impacts on the plants, and in some areas, replanting is likely. You can read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/specialtycropindustry.com\/florida-watermelon-industry-to-feel-impact-of-freeze\/\">https:\/\/specialtycropindustry.com\/florida-watermelon-industry-to-feel-impact-of-freeze\/<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/05\/watermelon-plant.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/05\/watermelon-plant.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7116\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/05\/watermelon-plant.jpg 480w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/05\/watermelon-plant-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/05\/watermelon-plant-184x138.jpg 184w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Source: Shu Suehiro, Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida watermelon farmers are still assessing the impacts of the January 30 freeze that affected many parts of the state. At this point, producers are still determining how much damage to the plants has occurred, and it does not appear that the overall damage was devastating, but some production could be set back by cold [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":7116,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23645","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\/23645","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=23645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23646,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23645\/revisions\/23646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}