{"id":3605,"date":"2015-06-26T08:01:15","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T12:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=3605"},"modified":"2015-06-26T08:01:41","modified_gmt":"2015-06-26T12:01:41","slug":"castor-could-be-a-new-crop-in-the-southeast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2015\/06\/castor-could-be-a-new-crop-in-the-southeast\/","title":{"rendered":"Castor could be a new crop in the Southeast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Castor beans, which were grown in Florida in World War II and which can produce some components of military jet fuel, are currently being studied by University of Florida scientists to determine if they can be successfully grown as a commercial crop in the Southeast.<\/p>\n<p><em>Growing Georgia<\/em> reported earlier this week (<a href=\"https:\/\/growinggeorgia.com\/news\/2015\/06\/ufifas-study-shows-how-much-water-needed-grow-castor\/?utm_source=Growing+Georgia&amp;utm_campaign=9d5b40a469-growinggeorgia-daily_newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_4643f190f7-9d5b40a469-296638373\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a>) on some efforts by UF scientists to study water use by the plants to estimate water use needs for irrigation. \u00a0Seed producers would need to first develop a\u00a0cultivar free of the toxin ricin. \u00a0 The FAWN \u00a0weather network is being used to determine evapotranspiration rates to help determine water use requirements.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3606\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3606\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/06\/castor-beans.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3606\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/06\/castor-beans-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"Castor beans.  Source: USDA ARS\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/06\/castor-beans-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/06\/castor-beans-206x138.jpg 206w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/06\/castor-beans.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3606\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Castor beans. Source: USDA ARS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Castor beans, which were grown in Florida in World War II and which can produce some components of military jet fuel, are currently being studied by University of Florida scientists to determine if they can be successfully grown as a commercial crop in the Southeast. Growing Georgia reported earlier this week (link) on some efforts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":3606,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3605","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\/3605","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=3605"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3609,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3605\/revisions\/3609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}