{"id":6020,"date":"2016-02-07T23:16:15","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T04:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=6020"},"modified":"2016-02-07T23:16:15","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T04:16:15","slug":"severe-weather-in-florida-damaged-crops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/02\/severe-weather-in-florida-damaged-crops\/","title":{"rendered":"Severe weather in Florida damaged crops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Packer<\/em> reported this week that heavy rains and high winds damaged pepper and corn crops and delayed planting, which could lead to production shortages in the coming weeks. \u00a0Many of the pepper plants were just about to flower when the severe weather knocked blossoms off the plants, destroying the value of the crop. \u00a0Final estimates of the costs of the damage will not be available until late February, according to the story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepacker.com\/news\/severe-florida-weather-damages-crops-cuts-volume\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6021\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6021\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/02\/Bell_Pepper_about_to_flower.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6021\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6021\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/02\/Bell_Pepper_about_to_flower-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Source: Commons Wikimedia\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/02\/Bell_Pepper_about_to_flower-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/02\/Bell_Pepper_about_to_flower-184x138.jpg 184w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/02\/Bell_Pepper_about_to_flower.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6021\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Packer reported this week that heavy rains and high winds damaged pepper and corn crops and delayed planting, which could lead to production shortages in the coming weeks. \u00a0Many of the pepper plants were just about to flower when the severe weather knocked blossoms off the plants, destroying the value of the crop. \u00a0Final [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":6021,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6020","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\/6020","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=6020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6022,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6020\/revisions\/6022"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}