{"id":8901,"date":"2016-10-30T18:17:06","date_gmt":"2016-10-30T22:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=8901"},"modified":"2016-10-30T18:17:06","modified_gmt":"2016-10-30T22:17:06","slug":"farmers-continue-to-assess-damage-from-hurricane-matthew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/10\/farmers-continue-to-assess-damage-from-hurricane-matthew\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmers continue to assess damage from Hurricane Matthew"},"content":{"rendered":"

Several articles out this week described continuing efforts by farmers in southeast Georgia and eastern North Carolina to determine the damage caused by the wind and flooding rain from Hurricane Matthew a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n

In North Carolina, Modern Farmer<\/em>\u00a0reported here<\/a> that while livestock farmers are starting to compost dead chickens and deal with 3300 dead swine, crop farmers are just now beginning to get into the fields to see if sweet potatoes and other crops survived the wet conditions. \u00a0About 70 percent of agricultural output in the state was affected by the floods, which killed 26 people in the state as well as 1.9 million chickens and 100,000 turkeys. Some crops appeared to survive the floods better than expected but it will be a long time before final tallies are in.<\/p>\n

In southeast Georgia, it was wind in addition to the rain that caused a lot of the damage. \u00a0Hardest hit were pecan farmers, who lost many mature trees to the strong winds. \u00a0In many areas up to 30 percent of the trees were tipped over, and the trees with the most nuts fared the worst because they were the heaviest. \u00a0Many green nuts were also blown down in the wind. \u00a0Farmers say that it takes 10-12 years for a new tree to reach full production, so it will take years for them to recover from the losses. \u00a0Cotton also suffered from the rain and wind, with many ripe bolls blown onto the ground and further damaged by the heavy rain. \u00a0You can read articles from Growing Georgia<\/em> here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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A FEMA photo taken Oct. 14 showing flooded farmland in Kinston, North Carolina. Photograph by Jocelyn Augustino\/FEMA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Several articles out this week described continuing efforts by farmers in southeast Georgia and eastern North Carolina to determine the damage caused by the wind and flooding rain from Hurricane Matthew a few weeks ago. In North Carolina, Modern Farmer\u00a0reported here that while livestock farmers are starting to compost dead chickens and deal with 3300 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":8902,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12,25,13,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-crops","category-fruit","category-livestock","category-tropical-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8901","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=8901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8903,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8901\/revisions\/8903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}