{"id":7057,"date":"2016-05-14T22:51:05","date_gmt":"2016-05-15T02:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=7057"},"modified":"2016-05-14T22:51:38","modified_gmt":"2016-05-15T02:51:38","slug":"mid-april-frost-damaged-some-tobacco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/05\/mid-april-frost-damaged-some-tobacco\/","title":{"rendered":"Mid-April frost damaged tobacco in some areas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Southeast Farm Press<\/em> reported this week that a frost which hit the Tobacco Belt in mid-April caused damage to some young tobacco transplants this year. \u00a0Initial concerns were for a significantly reduced crop, but most fields have recovered with little loss, it appears.<\/p>\n<p>The report states that &#8220;The damage seemed worse on the light\/sandy soils&#8230; That indicates that the cold, hard winds could have been a major contributor to the damage in addition to the low temperatures. \u00a0For most of the rest of the Tobacco Belt, the freeze came too early and wasn\u2019t quite cold enough to be very damaging.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You can read the full story starting at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/southeastfarmpress.com\/tobacco\/tobacco-planting-begins-slightly-brighter-outlook?page=1\">https:\/\/southeastfarmpress.com\/tobacco\/tobacco-planting-begins-slightly-brighter-outlook?page=1<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1612\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1612\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/12\/Field_of_Burley_tobacco_on_farm_of_Russell_Spears1a34368v.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1612\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/12\/Field_of_Burley_tobacco_on_farm_of_Russell_Spears1a34368v-300x206.jpg\" alt=\"Source: Commons Wikimedia\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/12\/Field_of_Burley_tobacco_on_farm_of_Russell_Spears1a34368v-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/12\/Field_of_Burley_tobacco_on_farm_of_Russell_Spears1a34368v-201x138.jpg 201w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/12\/Field_of_Burley_tobacco_on_farm_of_Russell_Spears1a34368v.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1612\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Southeast Farm Press reported this week that a frost which hit the Tobacco Belt in mid-April caused damage to some young tobacco transplants this year. \u00a0Initial concerns were for a significantly reduced crop, but most fields have recovered with little loss, it appears. The report states that &#8220;The damage seemed worse on the light\/sandy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":1612,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7057","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\/7057","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=7057"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7059,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7057\/revisions\/7059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}