{"id":25551,"date":"2023-03-31T23:35:11","date_gmt":"2023-04-01T03:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=25551"},"modified":"2023-03-31T23:35:15","modified_gmt":"2023-04-01T03:35:15","slug":"citrus-crisis-as-an-iconic-florida-crop-fades-another-tree-rises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2023\/03\/citrus-crisis-as-an-iconic-florida-crop-fades-another-tree-rises\/","title":{"rendered":"Citrus crisis: As an iconic Florida crop fades, another tree rises"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As the climate changes, farmers can become more resilient by adding new crops to their portfolio of choices. One I read about today is elderberry. Another is pongamia, a hardy tree that grows in Florida&#8217;s subtropical climate and serves as a source of oils, a soybean-like protein source, or a fertilizer feedstock, according to the <em>Christian Science Monitor<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/Environment\/2023\/0302\/Citrus-crisis-As-an-iconic-Florida-crop-fades-another-tree-rises?cmpid=kwc2cbmrs&amp;kwp_0=2247189&amp;kwp_4=6380481&amp;kwp_1=2740522&amp;fbclid=IwAR0VlpiGFmeKgMyon35WzzPXHz70-pMrghgiEeInWhJUM_mzW6DACV8R-ns\">here<\/a>. It can grow where citrus trees no longer thrive due to citrus greening, and according to <em><a href=\"https:\/\/news.globallandscapesforum.org\/56029\/in-indonesia-oil-rich-pongamia-tree-gains-attention-growing-where-other-species-cant\/\">Landscape News<\/a><\/em>, it can also grow on degraded soils where many other things cannot. I am always interested to hear what new crops our farmers are experimenting with, because diversity of crops makes producers more economically resilient to extreme weather and climate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2023\/03\/image-4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2023\/03\/image-4-730x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25552\" width=\"704\" height=\"988\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2023\/03\/image-4-730x1024.png 730w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2023\/03\/image-4-214x300.png 214w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2023\/03\/image-4-768x1077.png 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2023\/03\/image-4.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 704px) 100vw, 704px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the climate changes, farmers can become more resilient by adding new crops to their portfolio of choices. One I read about today is elderberry. Another is pongamia, a hardy tree that grows in Florida&#8217;s subtropical climate and serves as a source of oils, a soybean-like protein source, or a fertilizer feedstock, according to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":25552,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25551","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\/25551","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=25551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25553,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25551\/revisions\/25553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}