{"id":24246,"date":"2022-06-29T15:01:33","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T19:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=24246"},"modified":"2022-06-29T15:01:36","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T19:01:36","slug":"heat-impact-on-georgia-watermelons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2022\/06\/heat-impact-on-georgia-watermelons\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat Impact on Georgia Watermelons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The recent heat has affected Georgia watermelon production in both positive and negative ways. One of the things it did was to hasten ripening, so that most of the crop is now ripe. This has led to a glut on the market now as everything is ripening at once, but the supply could be lower in the coming weeks since everything is already harvested. You can read more in<em> Specialty Crop News<\/em> at <a href=\"https:\/\/specialtycropindustry.com\/heat-impact-on-georgia-watermelons\/\">https:\/\/specialtycropindustry.com\/heat-impact-on-georgia-watermelons\/<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/01\/Watermelons.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"695\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/01\/Watermelons-1024x695.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1878\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/01\/Watermelons.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/01\/Watermelons-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/01\/Watermelons-203x138.jpg 203w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Source: Steve Evans via Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent heat has affected Georgia watermelon production in both positive and negative ways. One of the things it did was to hasten ripening, so that most of the crop is now ripe. This has led to a glut on the market now as everything is ripening at once, but the supply could be lower [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":1878,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24246","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\/24246","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=24246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24247,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24246\/revisions\/24247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}