{"id":9132,"date":"2016-11-15T16:15:02","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T21:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=9132"},"modified":"2016-11-15T16:24:41","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T21:24:41","slug":"sour-year-for-sweet-potatoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/11\/sour-year-for-sweet-potatoes\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Sour year for sweet potatoes&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>AgWeb<\/em> released a video story today about the impacts of flooding rain in Louisiana and North Carolina on this year&#8217;s sweet potato crops. \u00a0In some areas of Louisiana, for example,\u00a0some farmers lost 50 to 70 percent of their crop. In the north, losses ranged from 15 percent to 35 percent. \u00a0You can read more and watch the video <a href=\"https:\/\/www.agweb.com\/article\/sour-year-for-sweet-potatoes-losses-from-flooding-naa-ashley-davenport\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In spite of the flooding, there is still an excellent demand for North Carolina sweet potatoes, according to <em>The Packer<\/em>, and values remain high. \u00a0You can read their story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepacker.com\/news\/north-carolina-shippers-report-strong-quality-holiday-demand?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTmpNeU16VXdOMlZqT0dNNCIsInQiOiJjTjBOY2pNRWVVSzJuMCtTeXZueG1NUXYwYXI5Z0F0Vzk3enpQRWtNT1VOQ2l0Rm5HM2lzclc5T3hzR2ErekUwWkNDdUNDcnc2MFN4bjZpWGhLMTdEb1YzM1FIcm9XUE9yM2pFckFHMm5Waz0ifQ%3D%3D\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8133\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8133\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/sweet-potato.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8133\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/sweet-potato-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Source: Llez via Commons Wikimedia\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/sweet-potato-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/sweet-potato-184x138.jpg 184w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/sweet-potato.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8133\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Llez via Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AgWeb released a video story today about the impacts of flooding rain in Louisiana and North Carolina on this year&#8217;s sweet potato crops. \u00a0In some areas of Louisiana, for example,\u00a0some farmers lost 50 to 70 percent of their crop. In the north, losses ranged from 15 percent to 35 percent. \u00a0You can read more and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":8133,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9132","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\/9132","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=9132"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9136,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9132\/revisions\/9136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}