{"id":25276,"date":"2023-01-21T10:26:54","date_gmt":"2023-01-21T15:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=25276"},"modified":"2023-01-21T10:26:59","modified_gmt":"2023-01-21T15:26:59","slug":"california-farms-crops-damaged-by-storms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2023\/01\/california-farms-crops-damaged-by-storms\/","title":{"rendered":"California farms, crops damaged by storms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The rain that has fallen in the last couple of weeks in California has been a mixed blessing for farmers there. While the rain has reduced drought levels and provided snow pack for irrigation later this year, it has also caused a lot of damage to farm fields and crops. <em>Fruit Farmers News<\/em> posted a <a href=\"https:\/\/fruitgrowersnews.com\/news\/california-farms-crops-damaged-by-storms\/?oly_enc_id=4468G5036034B0X\">story<\/a> about all of the damage seen there. Many crops were flooded and will need to be destroyed due to exposure to flood waters while others were drowned out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/12\/florida-flood-John-Alger-web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/12\/florida-flood-John-Alger-web.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5565\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/12\/florida-flood-John-Alger-web.jpg 960w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/12\/florida-flood-John-Alger-web-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/12\/florida-flood-John-Alger-web-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/12\/florida-flood-John-Alger-web-184x138.jpg 184w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Torrential rains in south Florida\u2019s Redlands growing region severely damaged winter yellow squash, zucchini and green beans, as well as this field of corn grown by Alger Farms. Source: Alger Farms via The Packer.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rain that has fallen in the last couple of weeks in California has been a mixed blessing for farmers there. While the rain has reduced drought levels and provided snow pack for irrigation later this year, it has also caused a lot of damage to farm fields and crops. Fruit Farmers News posted a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":5565,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25276","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\/25276","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=25276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25277,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25276\/revisions\/25277"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}