{"id":5723,"date":"2016-01-12T18:50:11","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T23:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=5723"},"modified":"2016-01-12T22:23:57","modified_gmt":"2016-01-13T03:23:57","slug":"warm-and-wet-december-worries-peach-pecan-and-blueberry-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/01\/warm-and-wet-december-worries-peach-pecan-and-blueberry-farmers\/","title":{"rendered":"Warm and wet December worries peach, pecan and blueberry farmers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Merritt Melancon of UGA wrote a recent press release which was posted in <em>Growing Georgia <\/em>describing some of the adverse impacts the warm and wet December has had on fruit and nut crops in Georgia. \u00a0You can read the article <a href=\"https:\/\/growinggeorgia.com\/news\/2016\/01\/warm-and-wet-december-worries-peach-pecan-and-blueberry-farmers\/?utm_source=Growing+Georgia&amp;utm_campaign=3713e920d4-growinggeorgia-daily_newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_4643f190f7-3713e920d4-296638373\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>She points out that the record-setting warmth has also meant very low chill hours, which is a concern for the fruit farmers. \u00a0In addition, because of the warm temperatures some early varieties of blueberry not only bloomed but produced fruit. \u00a0Since cold weather is likely to destroy this early bloom, yields could be reduced later this spring. \u00a0At the same time, the soggy conditions have caused problems in harvesting nuts and smothered tree roots in the wettest regions.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2624\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2624\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/blueberry-flowers-ars-d2195-3.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2624\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2624\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/blueberry-flowers-ars-d2195-3-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"Source: USDA ARS\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/blueberry-flowers-ars-d2195-3-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/blueberry-flowers-ars-d2195-3-206x138.jpg 206w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/blueberry-flowers-ars-d2195-3.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2624\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: USDA ARS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merritt Melancon of UGA wrote a recent press release which was posted in Growing Georgia describing some of the adverse impacts the warm and wet December has had on fruit and nut crops in Georgia. \u00a0You can read the article here. She points out that the record-setting warmth has also meant very low chill hours, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":2624,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5723","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\/5723","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=5723"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5725,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5723\/revisions\/5725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}