{"id":25003,"date":"2022-11-27T23:03:45","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T04:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=25003"},"modified":"2022-11-27T23:03:53","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T04:03:53","slug":"tomato-prices-remain-high-following-ian-reduced-supply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2022\/11\/tomato-prices-remain-high-following-ian-reduced-supply\/","title":{"rendered":"Tomato Prices Remain High Following Ian, Reduced Supply"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hurricane Ian caused a lot of agricultural damage to central Florida when it crossed the peninsula earlier this year. The biggest damage was to citrus, but many vegetable crops also took a hit. Clint Thompson discussed the resulting loss in tomato supply due to the winds knocking off tomatoes and flowers from the plants in <a href=\"https:\/\/specialtycropindustry.com\/tomato-prices-remain-high-following-ian-reduced-supply\/\">Specialty Crop Industry<\/a>. The result is that tomato production is down to about 30% of it usually is this time of year. The lack of tomatoes has caused prices to rise significantly, and they should stay high until production recovers in a few weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/10\/tomatoes-ars-d3025-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/10\/tomatoes-ars-d3025-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/10\/tomatoes-ars-d3025-1.jpg 427w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/10\/tomatoes-ars-d3025-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/10\/tomatoes-ars-d3025-1-92x138.jpg 92w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 427px) 100vw, 427px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: ARS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hurricane Ian caused a lot of agricultural damage to central Florida when it crossed the peninsula earlier this year. The biggest damage was to citrus, but many vegetable crops also took a hit. Clint Thompson discussed the resulting loss in tomato supply due to the winds knocking off tomatoes and flowers from the plants in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":1149,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25003","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\/25003","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=25003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25004,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25003\/revisions\/25004"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}