{"id":28025,"date":"2024-10-07T22:13:31","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T02:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=28025"},"modified":"2024-10-07T22:13:31","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T02:13:31","slug":"more-stories-on-impacts-from-hurricane-helene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2024\/10\/more-stories-on-impacts-from-hurricane-helene\/","title":{"rendered":"More stories on impacts from Hurricane Helene"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here are a few more recent stories I have read on a variety of impacts of Helene on agriculture, mostly in Georgia. I also included a couple of links at the end discussing the long-term financial impacts on farmers and homeowners and a link to the FEMA Rumor Response page, which is what they posted after all of the fake news about FEMA&#8217;s hurricane aid on social media. From what I have heard from people who are actually on the ground in WNC and other places, FEMA is doing exactly what it is supposed to do and helping coordinate the disaster response. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Southeast AgNet: <a href=\"https:\/\/southeastagnet.com\/2024\/10\/02\/georgia-cotton-commission-hurricane-helene\/?fbclid=IwY2xjawFvprhleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHU6gXIViWgyv2-mwU08Sp2UxXdSkkImaWcwvu1JgSWtbbUZ7jXjcru_lMA_aem_pGeaW97gQPjpBwn14I6fxA\">GCC Executive Director: We\u2019ve Lost at Least a Third of Cotton Crop Following Helene<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Southeast Farm Press: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.farmprogress.com\/crops\/helene-is-not-over-initial-ag-assessments-grim?utm_rid=CPG02000002518665&amp;utm_campaign=90024&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;elq2=4a5b4288836d48a2a167cf9a6e1883a9&amp;sp_eh=0f578de3184a1efdc22151d6ea9c33f7f1990c917c692dbf7a223482d38ef981\">After Helene, initial ag assessments grim<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Farm Progress: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.farmprogress.com\/crops\/hurricane-helene-halts-poultry-plants-damages-pecan-trees?utm_rid=CPG02000002518665&amp;utm_campaign=89863&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;elq2=6ea485e0ed8e4e1982030b95e24dc450&amp;sp_eh=0f578de3184a1efdc22151d6ea9c33f7f1990c917c692dbf7a223482d38ef981\">Hurricane Helene halts poultry plants, damages pecan trees<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All About the Pod (podcast): <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasters.spotify.com\/pod\/show\/allaboutthepod\/episodes\/Episode-32--Season-2----Cotton-and-Peanut-damage-from-Hurricane-Helene-e2p5j34\">Cotton and peanut producers discuss the impacts of Helene on crops<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wall Street Journal: <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/financial-wreckage-hurricanes-delayed-retirements-093000782.html\">The True Cost of Losing Your Home in a Hurricane (After Insurance)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FEMA: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fema.gov\/disaster\/current\/hurricane-helene\/rumor-response\">Helene Rumor Response<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2024\/10\/moses-pecan-after-helene-2024.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2024\/10\/moses-pecan-after-helene-2024-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28027\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2024\/10\/moses-pecan-after-helene-2024-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2024\/10\/moses-pecan-after-helene-2024-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2024\/10\/moses-pecan-after-helene-2024-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2024\/10\/moses-pecan-after-helene-2024.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Moses Pecan after Helene 2024, source<em> Farm Progress<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are a few more recent stories I have read on a variety of impacts of Helene on agriculture, mostly in Georgia. I also included a couple of links at the end discussing the long-term financial impacts on farmers and homeowners and a link to the FEMA Rumor Response page, which is what they posted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":28027,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12,25,13,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-crops","category-fruit","category-livestock","category-tropical-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28025","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=28025"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28028,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28025\/revisions\/28028"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}