{"id":1745,"date":"2020-09-17T14:45:10","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T18:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/pecan\/?p=1745"},"modified":"2024-12-10T15:39:45","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T20:39:45","slug":"hurricane-tropical-depression-sally-impact-on-se-pecan-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/pecan\/2020\/09\/hurricane-tropical-depression-sally-impact-on-se-pecan-production\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane\/Tropical Depression Sally Impact on SE Pecan Production"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Georgia pecan growers were fortunate to have largely escaped any serious effects from Hurricane Sally, which weakened to a Tropical Depression as it moved through the state Wednesday evening and through the night of (9\/16-9\/17). Most growers I have heard from report only minor damage from limbs breaking out, which was already occurring from the crop load, and is expected, as well as a few nuts blowing out. Most of the breakage seems to be not too much different from what we have been seeing the last several weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/pecan\/files\/2020\/09\/IMG_5824.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1748\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/pecan\/files\/2020\/09\/IMG_5824.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/pecan\/files\/2020\/09\/IMG_5824-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/pecan\/files\/2020\/09\/IMG_5823.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1747\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/pecan\/files\/2020\/09\/IMG_5823.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/pecan\/files\/2020\/09\/IMG_5823-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The biggest issues Georgia pecan growers face from this storm is flooding in the orchards as many areas received 6-8&#8243; or rainfall. This may delay some growers getting into orchards in which Pawnees were already opened up enough to begin shaking. Some areas may take a while to drain but the standing water should not harm trees. It will simply make orchard preparations&#8212;limb removal, mowing, herbiciding&#8212; for the beginning of harvest more challenging. While Pawnees are about ready to harvest in many areas, most varieties are still several weeks away from shaking. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pecan growers in Alabama were not as fortunate with Hurricane Sally.  The storm hit Baldwin County, the heart of Alabama&#8217;s pecan production, as a strong Category Two Hurricane. Growers and pecan scientists I have spoken with there have said the damage appears worse than Hurricane Ivan, the 2004 storm that devastated the area. Most growers are reporting 25%-75% of their trees down with this latest storm. They received over 20&#8243; of rain and 100 mph winds, which of course laid trees on the ground and shredded leaves and nuts off the trees.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia pecan growers were fortunate to have largely escaped any serious effects from Hurricane Sally, which weakened to a Tropical Depression as it moved through the state Wednesday evening and through the night of (9\/16-9\/17). Most growers I have heard from report only minor damage from limbs breaking out, which was already occurring from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/pecan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/pecan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/pecan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/pecan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/pecan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1745"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/pecan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1750,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/pecan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745\/revisions\/1750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/pecan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/pecan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/pecan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}