{"id":11190,"date":"2021-05-30T17:35:14","date_gmt":"2021-05-30T21:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/?p=11190"},"modified":"2022-10-12T14:59:28","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T18:59:28","slug":"extension-assists-watermelon-industry-with-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/2021\/05\/30\/extension-assists-watermelon-industry-with-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Extension assists watermelon industry with disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Florida is the top producer of watermelon in the country, with planting in March and harvest in May and June. For many UF\/IFAS Extension agriculture agents, this time of year means weekly visits to local watermelon fields, where they scope out early signs of disease, identify pests and test the plants\u2019 sap to make sure nutrient levels are just right.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"yFWKlsPblL\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.morningagclips.com\/uf-ifas-extension-helps-watermelon-industry-nip-disease-in-bud\/\">UF\/IFAS Extension helps watermelon industry nip disease in bud<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;UF\/IFAS Extension helps watermelon industry nip disease in bud&#8221; &#8212; Morning Ag Clips\" src=\"https:\/\/www.morningagclips.com\/uf-ifas-extension-helps-watermelon-industry-nip-disease-in-bud\/embed\/#?secret=yFWKlsPblL\" data-secret=\"yFWKlsPblL\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The week of May 10, one such issue reared its head: Gummy stem blight, a fungal infection that affects the stems and leaves of watermelon plants, was found in several fields.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[241],"tags":[37,508,604],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11190"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11191,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11190\/revisions\/11191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}