{"id":25366,"date":"2023-02-16T12:31:25","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T17:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=25366"},"modified":"2023-02-16T12:31:29","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T17:31:29","slug":"commercial-olive-production-in-florida-is-being-put-to-the-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2023\/02\/commercial-olive-production-in-florida-is-being-put-to-the-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Commercial Olive Production in Florida Is Being Put to the Test"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the past I have written on this blog about olive as a new crop in the Southeast. I know that there have been several test sites planted in Georgia. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.growingproduce.com\/fruits\/commercial-olive-production-in-florida-its-being-put-to-the-test\/?utm_source=omail&amp;utm_medium=newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=gpenews02112023&amp;oly_enc_id=8919D0515589H9C\">This article<\/a> for <em>Growing Produce<\/em> describes how researchers in Florida are planting olive groves in several locations to test how they handle the varied climate and soil across the state. According to the article, \u201cOver the last 10 years, researchers planted 25 commercial olive cultivars at 30 research and private orchard sites in throughout Florida,\u201d says Rossi, a native Italian. \u201cOlive responses to Florida weather conditions have not been documented and are necessary to develop a local olive industry.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/12\/Olives_on_tree.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/12\/Olives_on_tree.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/12\/Olives_on_tree.jpg 640w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/12\/Olives_on_tree-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/12\/Olives_on_tree-184x138.jpg 184w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: Commons WIkimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the past I have written on this blog about olive as a new crop in the Southeast. I know that there have been several test sites planted in Georgia. This article for Growing Produce describes how researchers in Florida are planting olive groves in several locations to test how they handle the varied climate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":1504,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25366","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\/25366","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=25366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25367,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25366\/revisions\/25367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}