{"id":6525,"date":"2016-03-26T23:31:55","date_gmt":"2016-03-27T03:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=6525"},"modified":"2016-03-26T23:32:04","modified_gmt":"2016-03-27T03:32:04","slug":"georgia-expecting-bumper-late-spring-peach-crop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/03\/georgia-expecting-bumper-late-spring-peach-crop\/","title":{"rendered":"“Georgia expecting bumper late spring peach crop”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Doug Ohlemeier reported in The Packer<\/em> this week that Georgia is expecting a peach crop which could be the biggest in over a decade and double what was packed last year. \u00a0After a slow start to chill hour accumulations in the extremely warm December, more typical weather in January and February provided enough chill hours for most varieties to bloom and set plenty of fruit of good size. \u00a0You can read the article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The orchards survived a cold snap on March 21 and most areas expect to begin harvesting in mid-May. \u00a0One question is whether a late frost could impact the crop. \u00a0One computer model, the GFS, was showing the potential for freezing temperatures stretching south into middle Georgia on the morning of April 4, but later runs of this model have held the freezing temperatures to the far northeastern mountains, giving some relief to farmers. \u00a0You can see future versions of this and other models at https:\/\/www.tropicaltidbits.com<\/a> under the Forecast Models tab.<\/p>\n

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Doug Ohlemeier reported in The Packer this week that Georgia is expecting a peach crop which could be the biggest in over a decade and double what was packed last year. \u00a0After a slow start to chill hour accumulations in the extremely warm December, more typical weather in January and February provided enough chill hours […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":6526,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6525","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\/6525","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=6525"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6529,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6525\/revisions\/6529"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}