{"id":9832,"date":"2017-01-24T00:19:26","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T05:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=9832"},"modified":"2017-01-24T00:19:26","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T05:19:26","slug":"university-of-florida-working-on-new-tool-to-deliver-severe-weather-data-to-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/01\/university-of-florida-working-on-new-tool-to-deliver-severe-weather-data-to-farmers\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Florida working on new tool to deliver severe weather data to farmers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Florida\u00a0Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences announced the development of a new app-based tool to help tell farmers when severe weather might impact their crops. \u00a0According to an article in the Southeast Farm Press, the tool will inform farmers about the potential for extreme weather such as severe heat or dry spells during the various phases of crop development. If severe weather strikes during flowering, for example, it can severely impact crops. \u00a0 You can read more about the app in the Southeast Farm Press article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southeastfarmpress.com\/weather\/new-model-app-predicts-extreme-weather-chances-specific-farm?NL=SEFP-01&amp;Issue=SEFP-01_20170123_SEFP-01_599&amp;sfvc4enews=42&amp;cl=article_3_b&amp;utm_rid=CPG02000002518665&amp;utm_campaign=13941&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;elq2=0591b6ba747d4ed1853083827d00f398\">here<\/a> or the official press release at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.ifas.ufl.edu\/2017\/01\/ufifas-model-delivers-growers-severe-weather-data-specific-to-their-farms\/#more-11122\">https:\/\/news.ifas.ufl.edu\/2017\/01\/ufifas-model-delivers-growers-severe-weather-data-specific-to-their-farms\/#more-11122<\/a>. \u00a0The tool should be available to the public in a few months once the testing phase is complete.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/01\/Weather-web-app-tool-011817-300x200.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9833\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/01\/Weather-web-app-tool-011817-300x200-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/01\/Weather-web-app-tool-011817-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/01\/Weather-web-app-tool-011817-300x200-207x138.jpg 207w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Florida\u00a0Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences announced the development of a new app-based tool to help tell farmers when severe weather might impact their crops. \u00a0According to an article in the Southeast Farm Press, the tool will inform farmers about the potential for extreme weather such as severe heat or dry spells [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":9833,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-crops","category-tools-for-climate-and-agriculture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9832","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=9832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9834,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9832\/revisions\/9834"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}