{"id":375,"date":"2014-07-07T23:35:57","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T03:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=375"},"modified":"2021-10-18T11:12:04","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T15:12:04","slug":"could-lemons-make-a-comeback-in-the-southeast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2014\/07\/could-lemons-make-a-comeback-in-the-southeast\/","title":{"rendered":"Could lemons make a comeback in the Southeast?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Packer<\/em> \u00a0noted this week that lemons could top $50 per box this year due to frost in Chile and the drought in California in this article posted<a title=\"Lemons at $50 per box\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thepacker.com\/fruit-vegetable-enewsletter\/Issue_Announcement\/Lemons-could-top-50-a-box-265535961.html?utm_source=9231J3805912B2T&amp;utm_medium=eNL&amp;utm_campaign=Packer+Issue+Announcement_20140707&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> here<\/a>. \u00a0Lemons are no longer grown commercially in Florida due to the severe frosts of the 1970&#8217;s, which wiped out many groves, according to the Tampa Bay Times article <a title=\"Why no lemons in FL\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/news\/humaninterest\/qampa-why-lemons-limes-are-no-longer-grown-commercially-in-florida\/1080839\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>. \u00a0But with recent warming and less frequent frosts, producers may be starting to consider lemons again. \u00a0A December <a title=\"Citrus in FL panhandle\" href=\"https:\/\/flcitrusmutual.com\/news\/pnj_escarosa_120313.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article<\/a> in the Pensacola New Journal noted that milder winters, along with better growing techniques and more hardy varieties, are sparking a modest citrus industry in the Florida panhandle, north of where most citrus are grown because of the likelihood of frost. \u00a0There is also some interest in growing satsumas and other cold-tolerant varieties in southern Georgia. \u00a0With an improving market for &#8220;local&#8221; fruit and less frequent frosts in the future, lemons, limes and other citrus could expand northward in the Southeast in future years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Packer \u00a0noted this week that lemons could top $50 per box this year due to frost in Chile and the drought in California in this article posted here. \u00a0Lemons are no longer grown commercially in Florida due to the severe frosts of the 1970&#8217;s, which wiped out many groves, according to the Tampa Bay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375","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=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22705,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions\/22705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}