{"id":6492,"date":"2016-03-23T23:58:17","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T03:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=6492"},"modified":"2016-03-23T23:58:17","modified_gmt":"2016-03-24T03:58:17","slug":"vidalia-onion-crop-looks-strong-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/03\/vidalia-onion-crop-looks-strong-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Vidalia onion crop looks strong this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Packer<\/em> reported today that the Vidalia onion crop this year is looking very good. \u00a0 They report that &#8220;after early-season rain thinned some stands, recent near-ideal growing conditions have raised expectations for the start of the Vidalia onion season in April.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Good weather in March has helped speed the development of the crop and kept disease pressure low. \u00a0The crop is expected to be good in both quality and size. \u00a0The official pack start\u00a0date is expected to be April 25, the usual date for starting the packing season.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2457\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2457\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/03\/Vidalia-onions-growing-georgia.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2457\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2457\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/03\/Vidalia-onions-growing-georgia-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Source: Team Georgia.gov\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/03\/Vidalia-onions-growing-georgia-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/03\/Vidalia-onions-growing-georgia-208x138.jpg 208w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/03\/Vidalia-onions-growing-georgia.jpg 409w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2457\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Team Georgia.gov<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Packer reported today that the Vidalia onion crop this year is looking very good. \u00a0 They report that &#8220;after early-season rain thinned some stands, recent near-ideal growing conditions have raised expectations for the start of the Vidalia onion season in April.&#8221; Good weather in March has helped speed the development of the crop and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":2457,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6492","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\/6492","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\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6493,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6492\/revisions\/6493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}