{"id":2680,"date":"2015-04-13T13:59:35","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T17:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=2680"},"modified":"2015-04-13T13:59:35","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T17:59:35","slug":"california-drought-increases-interest-in-southern-pecans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2015\/04\/california-drought-increases-interest-in-southern-pecans\/","title":{"rendered":"California drought increases interest in Southern pecans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Allison Floyd of <em>Growing Georgia<\/em> had an article this week discussing the increasing interest in Southern pecans due to the California drought. \u00a0As we&#8217;ve discussed previously in this blog, California is one of the main sources of nuts in the US (and the world), but the nut orchards require a lot of water to maintain and to grow high-quality nuts.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of higher prices and poorer quality of walnuts and other nuts, there has been an increased interest in pecans, which grow readily in the Southeast and are very competitive in price right now. \u00a0You can read the story <a title=\"Southern pecan interest grows with CA drought\" href=\"https:\/\/growinggeorgia.com\/features\/2015\/04\/california-drought-driving-interest-southern-pecans\/?utm_source=Growing+Georgia&amp;utm_campaign=0653e8a0e1-growinggeorgia-daily_newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_4643f190f7-0653e8a0e1-296638373\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1409\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1409\" style=\"width: 199px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/pecans-ars-k7235-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1409\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/pecans-ars-k7235-2-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"Source: USDA ARS\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/pecans-ars-k7235-2-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/pecans-ars-k7235-2-91x138.jpg 91w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/pecans-ars-k7235-2.jpg 682w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1409\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: USDA ARS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allison Floyd of Growing Georgia had an article this week discussing the increasing interest in Southern pecans due to the California drought. \u00a0As we&#8217;ve discussed previously in this blog, California is one of the main sources of nuts in the US (and the world), but the nut orchards require a lot of water to maintain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":1409,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-crops","category-drought"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2680","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=2680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2681,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2680\/revisions\/2681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}