{"id":465,"date":"2014-07-29T10:45:55","date_gmt":"2014-07-29T14:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=465"},"modified":"2021-10-18T11:14:07","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T15:14:07","slug":"kudzu-marches-north-as-climate-warms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2014\/07\/kudzu-marches-north-as-climate-warms\/","title":{"rendered":"Kudzu marches north as climate warms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Bloomberg News<\/em> reported on July 25 that kudzu, the bane of the South, is now moving farther and farther north as the temperature increases.\u00a0 In addition to covering much of Georgia, Alabama and North Carolina (including a few areas of my yard that need some work), it has now been found in Illinois, Ohio and even Ontario, Canada.\u00a0 The plant causes about $50 million per year in eradication costs across th US.\u00a0 You can read the article by clicking <a title=\"Kudzu marches north\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2014-07-25\/kudzu-that-ate-u-s-south-heads-north-as-climate-changes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, we may be able to eat our way out of this crisis.\u00a0 <em>The Kitchn\u00a0<\/em>online provides some recipes for eating kudzu and making kudzu jelly.\u00a0 Just don&#8217;t eat the stems!\u00a0 Information is available <a title=\"Eating kudzu\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thekitchn.com\/did-you-know-you-can-eat-kudzu-92488\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg News reported on July 25 that kudzu, the bane of the South, is now moving farther and farther north as the temperature increases.\u00a0 In addition to covering much of Georgia, Alabama and North Carolina (including a few areas of my yard that need some work), it has now been found in Illinois, Ohio and [&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-465","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\/465","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=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22752,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions\/22752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}