{"id":29768,"date":"2026-03-12T20:57:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T00:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=29768"},"modified":"2026-03-12T20:57:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T00:57:42","slug":"usda-declares-natural-disaster-areas-in-wake-of-wicked-winter-blasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2026\/03\/usda-declares-natural-disaster-areas-in-wake-of-wicked-winter-blasts\/","title":{"rendered":"USDA Declares Natural Disaster Areas in Wake of Wicked Winter Blasts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The freezes that affected Florida, Georgia, and Alabama have made farmers in the affected counties eligible for emergency loans to cover losses from those counties. There were a total of five different triggering events with different sets of counties affected by each one. Applications for the loans are due by November 4, 2026. You can read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.growingproduce.com\/farm-management\/usda-declares-natural-disaster-areas-in-wake-of-wicked-winter-blasts\/?utm_source=omail&amp;utm_medium=newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=afgenews03112026&amp;oly_enc_id=8919D0515589H9C\">Growing Produce<\/a> and see a list of the affected counties for each event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2022\/02\/strawberry-freeze-pic-1043x1304-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2022\/02\/strawberry-freeze-pic-1043x1304-1-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23597\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2022\/02\/strawberry-freeze-pic-1043x1304-1-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2022\/02\/strawberry-freeze-pic-1043x1304-1-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2022\/02\/strawberry-freeze-pic-1043x1304-1-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2022\/02\/strawberry-freeze-pic-1043x1304-1.jpg 1043w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The freezes that affected Florida, Georgia, and Alabama have made farmers in the affected counties eligible for emergency loans to cover losses from those counties. There were a total of five different triggering events with different sets of counties affected by each one. Applications for the loans are due by November 4, 2026. You can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":23597,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29768","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\/29768","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=29768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29769,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29768\/revisions\/29769"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}