{"id":6226,"date":"2016-02-28T16:23:25","date_gmt":"2016-02-28T21:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=6226"},"modified":"2016-02-29T22:44:45","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T03:44:45","slug":"alabama-peach-growers-hope-for-cooler-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/02\/alabama-peach-growers-hope-for-cooler-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"Alabama peach growers hope for cooler weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Fruit Growers News<\/em> reported this week that Alabama peach growers are concerned about the lack of chill hours this year. \u00a0You can read the article at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/fruitgrowersnews.com\/news\/alabama-peach-growers-hope-for-cooler-weather\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/fruitgrowersnews.com\/news\/alabama-peach-growers-hope-for-cooler-weather\/<\/a>. \u00a0Some of the problems with the lack of chill hours are a reduction in fruit set and a longer bloom period, which could mean that at harvest growers will have to go through their orchards several times instead of just once, increasing labor costs. \u00a0This has also been a problem with peach farmers in Georgia and South Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>You can find current information about chill hour accumulations at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/agroclimate.org\/tools\/Chill-Hours-Calculator\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/agroclimate.org\/tools\/Chill-Hours-Calculator\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2551\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2551\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/peach-blossoms-commons.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2551\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2551\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/peach-blossoms-commons-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Source: Andrea Pavanello, Commons Wikimedia\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/peach-blossoms-commons-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/peach-blossoms-commons-184x138.jpg 184w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/peach-blossoms-commons.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2551\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Andrea Pavanello, Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fruit Growers News reported this week that Alabama peach growers are concerned about the lack of chill hours this year. \u00a0You can read the article at\u00a0https:\/\/fruitgrowersnews.com\/news\/alabama-peach-growers-hope-for-cooler-weather\/. \u00a0Some of the problems with the lack of chill hours are a reduction in fruit set and a longer bloom period, which could mean that at harvest growers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":2551,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12,25,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-crops","category-fruit","category-tools-for-climate-and-agriculture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6226","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=6226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6227,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6226\/revisions\/6227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}