{"id":2996,"date":"2015-05-08T14:33:21","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T18:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=2996"},"modified":"2015-05-08T14:33:21","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T18:33:21","slug":"rainfall-issues-with-vidalia-onions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2015\/05\/rainfall-issues-with-vidalia-onions\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainfall issues with Vidalia onions?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Packer is running a story today on this year&#8217;s Vidalia onion harvest and the impacts of the recent rainy weather on the crop.<\/p>\n<p>In the story they describe \u00a0conflicting reports on the state of the onion crop due to the weather. \u00a0The USDA is reporting that\u00a0recent rains \u201ccurtailed harvest\u201d and contributed to some crop losses by setting up prime conditions for downy mildew, seed stems and double bulbs for organic and conventional Vidalias. \u00a0However, some onion specialists in the Vidalia area say that the damage they have seen from rain is much less than reported. \u00a0You can read the story at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepacker.com\/news\/growers-say-vidalia-onions-better-usda-suggests\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.thepacker.com\/news\/growers-say-vidalia-onions-better-usda-suggests<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2457\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2457\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/03\/Vidalia-onions-growing-georgia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2457\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/03\/Vidalia-onions-growing-georgia-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Source: Team Georgia.gov\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/03\/Vidalia-onions-growing-georgia-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/03\/Vidalia-onions-growing-georgia-208x138.jpg 208w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/03\/Vidalia-onions-growing-georgia.jpg 409w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2457\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Team Georgia.gov<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Packer is running a story today on this year&#8217;s Vidalia onion harvest and the impacts of the recent rainy weather on the crop. In the story they describe \u00a0conflicting reports on the state of the onion crop due to the weather. \u00a0The USDA is reporting that\u00a0recent rains \u201ccurtailed harvest\u201d and contributed to some crop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":2457,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2996","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\/2996","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=2996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2997,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2996\/revisions\/2997"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}