{"id":8459,"date":"2016-09-26T09:41:45","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T13:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=8459"},"modified":"2016-09-26T09:41:45","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T13:41:45","slug":"pecan-crop-expected-to-be-good-despite-hermine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/09\/pecan-crop-expected-to-be-good-despite-hermine\/","title":{"rendered":"Pecan crop expected to be good despite Hermine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Growing Georgia<\/em> posted a <a href=\"https:\/\/growinggeorgia.com\/news\/2016\/09\/high-optimism-georgias-pecan-crop\/?utm_source=Growing+Georgia&amp;utm_campaign=ea2b61abd9-growinggeorgia-daily_newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_4643f190f7-ea2b61abd9-296638373\">story<\/a> today on the state of Georgia&#8217;s upcoming pecan harvest. \u00a0After Hurricane Hermine tracked through the southeastern part of the state, producers found many damaged trees and reductions in the number of nuts on the trees due to the winds from the storm. \u00a0But\u00a0University of Georgia Cooperative Extension pecan specialist Lenny Wells says that the dry summer has sharply reduced pecan scab disease, resulting in a harvest which may be over 100 million pounds.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1409\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1409\" style=\"width: 199px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/pecans-ars-k7235-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1409\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/pecans-ars-k7235-2-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"Source: USDA ARS\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/pecans-ars-k7235-2-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/pecans-ars-k7235-2-91x138.jpg 91w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/pecans-ars-k7235-2.jpg 682w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1409\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: USDA ARS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Growing Georgia posted a story today on the state of Georgia&#8217;s upcoming pecan harvest. \u00a0After Hurricane Hermine tracked through the southeastern part of the state, producers found many damaged trees and reductions in the number of nuts on the trees due to the winds from the storm. \u00a0But\u00a0University of Georgia Cooperative Extension pecan specialist Lenny [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":1409,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-crops","category-fruit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8459","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=8459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8460,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8459\/revisions\/8460"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}