{"id":6280,"date":"2016-03-02T15:27:04","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T20:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=6280"},"modified":"2016-03-02T15:30:29","modified_gmt":"2016-03-02T20:30:29","slug":"el-nino-could-interrupt-georgia-corn-planting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/03\/el-nino-could-interrupt-georgia-corn-planting\/","title":{"rendered":"El Ni\u00f1o could interrupt Georgia corn planting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clint Thompson of UGA released a story this week (printed <a href=\"https:\/\/growinggeorgia.com\/news\/2016\/02\/el-nino-could-interrupt-georgia-corn-planting\/?utm_source=Growing+Georgia&amp;utm_campaign=f64a1600fc-growinggeorgia-daily_newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_4643f190f7-f64a1600fc-296638373\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> in <em>Growing Georgia<\/em>) on the impact of the wet conditions caused by El Ni\u00f1o on corn planting across the region. \u00a0Rain has been plentiful in parts of Georgia this winter due to frequent storms passing through the area dropping rain and snow.<\/p>\n<p>Since Georgia corn producers typically begin planting in early to mid-March, the extremely wet conditions in some areas could make it impossible to get in the fields.\u00a0Late-planted corn\u00a0is more susceptible to diseases than early-planted corn, according to Dr. Bob Kemerait of UGA.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6282\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6282\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/03\/Little_bitty_corn_plants.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6282\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6282\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/03\/Little_bitty_corn_plants-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Source: Valerie Everett, Commons Wikimedia\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/03\/Little_bitty_corn_plants-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/03\/Little_bitty_corn_plants-208x138.jpg 208w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/03\/Little_bitty_corn_plants.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6282\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Valerie Everett, Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clint Thompson of UGA released a story this week (printed here in Growing Georgia) on the impact of the wet conditions caused by El Ni\u00f1o on corn planting across the region. \u00a0Rain has been plentiful in parts of Georgia this winter due to frequent storms passing through the area dropping rain and snow. Since Georgia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":6282,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-crops","category-el-nino-and-la-nina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6280","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=6280"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6284,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6280\/revisions\/6284"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}