{"id":29114,"date":"2025-08-27T22:41:28","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T02:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=29114"},"modified":"2025-08-27T22:41:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T02:41:28","slug":"to-get-that-perfect-ear-of-corn-weather-has-to-cooperate-but-climate-change-is-making-it-dicier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2025\/08\/to-get-that-perfect-ear-of-corn-weather-has-to-cooperate-but-climate-change-is-making-it-dicier\/","title":{"rendered":"To get that perfect ear of corn, weather has to cooperate. But climate change is making it dicier."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There are many different ways that weather can impact the production of corn. Some recent trends towards warmer overnight temperatures and more extreme rainfall can cause negative impacts on both corn pollination and development of the corn once it pollinates. This means that growing corn may become more risky over time as trends towards a warmer climate occur. You can read more from KIMT <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kimt.com\/news\/to-get-that-perfect-ear-of-corn-weather-has-to-cooperate-but-climate-change-is\/article_ce9d9eb0-09a3-433c-8325-4b9e01bde760.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawMae3xleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHkQ3H0GYMJqpyk9-YgLShWBIG_EA-__8YDBi11wrBbHGuKn5C8tdzT9wsYlG_aem_jLwnqPtrF-eUGtX-49wsLw\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/08\/unfilled-corn-appling.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/08\/unfilled-corn-appling.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4034\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/08\/unfilled-corn-appling.jpg 225w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/08\/unfilled-corn-appling-104x138.jpg 104w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: Shane Curry, Appling County Crop E News<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many different ways that weather can impact the production of corn. Some recent trends towards warmer overnight temperatures and more extreme rainfall can cause negative impacts on both corn pollination and development of the corn once it pollinates. This means that growing corn may become more risky over time as trends towards a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":4034,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29114","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\/29114","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=29114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29115,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29114\/revisions\/29115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}