{"id":3603,"date":"2015-06-26T07:49:55","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T11:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=3603"},"modified":"2015-06-26T07:49:55","modified_gmt":"2015-06-26T11:49:55","slug":"watermelon-farmers-feel-the-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2015\/06\/watermelon-farmers-feel-the-heat\/","title":{"rendered":"Watermelon farmers feel the heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Growing Georgia<\/em> posted an article from Clint Thompson of UGA about the impacts of the recent heat on watermelon farmers. \u00a0The high temperatures and strong sunlight could cause sunburn on the nearly ripe melons, making them unattractive and less able to sell. \u00a0Some farmers are using sprays to help protect the melons from sun scald, but the season may end earlier than usual due to the adverse weather. \u00a0You can read the story <a href=\"https:\/\/growinggeorgia.com\/news\/2015\/06\/soaring-temperatures-have-watermelon-farmers-feeling-heat\/?utm_source=Growing+Georgia&amp;utm_campaign=6f1a2b2bbf-growinggeorgia-daily_newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_4643f190f7-6f1a2b2bbf-296638373\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1878\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1878\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/01\/Watermelons.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1878\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/01\/Watermelons-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"Source: Steve Evans via Commons Wikimedia\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/01\/Watermelons-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/01\/Watermelons.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/01\/Watermelons-203x138.jpg 203w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1878\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Steve Evans via Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Growing Georgia posted an article from Clint Thompson of UGA about the impacts of the recent heat on watermelon farmers. \u00a0The high temperatures and strong sunlight could cause sunburn on the nearly ripe melons, making them unattractive and less able to sell. \u00a0Some farmers are using sprays to help protect the melons from sun scald, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":1878,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3603","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\/3603","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\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3604,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3603\/revisions\/3604"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}