{"id":6943,"date":"2016-05-04T22:39:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T02:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=6943"},"modified":"2016-05-04T22:39:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-05T02:39:00","slug":"what-standing-water-does-to-your-corn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/05\/what-standing-water-does-to-your-corn\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;What standing water does to your corn&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>AgWeb<\/em> posted an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.agweb.com\/article\/what-standing-water-does-to-your-corn-naa-ben-potter\/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTW1FNU9EYzBNalEyTVdWaSIsInQiOiJ1Q2tTaG9idFh2NmxJYkhteHFZTllUOGtxMVpRMTRzVkV1WklIeXQwb1YrNk53em9WTUNxb0hEWmVrak9vbmhvbE5ZNGc4Z3ZlZUxtR2Y3VEE3UmlYRzMzVHhPbkRTWmYwK1pyRGhtc3Z0dz0ifQ%3D%3D\">article<\/a> this week from Ben Potter on how\u00a0standing water in the fields can affect young corn plants. \u00a0While parts of the Southeast are in drought, many areas of southern Georgia and Alabama have experienced a lot of rain and some fields are quite wet. \u00a0Corn is especially susceptible to problems if flooding occurs early in the life\u00a0cycle of the plants, but is more tolerant of wet conditions later in the season.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6944\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6944\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/05\/flooded-corn-FEMA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6944\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/05\/flooded-corn-FEMA-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Source: Robert Kaufmann, FEMA Library\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/05\/flooded-corn-FEMA-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/05\/flooded-corn-FEMA-207x138.jpg 207w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/05\/flooded-corn-FEMA.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6944\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Robert Kaufmann, FEMA Library<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AgWeb posted an article this week from Ben Potter on how\u00a0standing water in the fields can affect young corn plants. \u00a0While parts of the Southeast are in drought, many areas of southern Georgia and Alabama have experienced a lot of rain and some fields are quite wet. \u00a0Corn is especially susceptible to problems if flooding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":6944,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6943","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\/6943","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=6943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6945,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6943\/revisions\/6945"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}