{"id":3561,"date":"2015-06-22T09:01:43","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T13:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=3561"},"modified":"2015-06-22T09:01:43","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T13:01:43","slug":"fewer-vidalia-onions-this-year-due-to-rainy-april-and-severe-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2015\/06\/fewer-vidalia-onions-this-year-due-to-rainy-april-and-severe-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"Fewer Vidalia onions this year due to rainy April and severe weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Growing Georgia published an article last week noting that the yield of Vidalia onions this year was lower than normal due to wet conditions in April as well as temperatures as low as 15 degrees and high winds and hail which also damaged the onions. \u00a0The hail caused enough damage that some farmers did not harvest the affected fields, and the high winds pushed down the onion tops or broke them off, reducing the onions&#8217; ability to grow.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, prices were strong due to a small crop of similar onions in Texas. \u00a0You can read the article <a href=\"https:\/\/growinggeorgia.com\/features\/2015\/06\/fewer-vidalia-onions-expected-year\/?utm_source=Growing+Georgia&amp;utm_campaign=532886655b-growinggeorgia-daily_newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_4643f190f7-532886655b-296638373\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/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>Growing Georgia published an article last week noting that the yield of Vidalia onions this year was lower than normal due to wet conditions in April as well as temperatures as low as 15 degrees and high winds and hail which also damaged the onions. \u00a0The hail caused enough damage that some farmers did not [&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-3561","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\/3561","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=3561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3562,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3561\/revisions\/3562"}],"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=3561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}