{"id":12269,"date":"2022-03-15T15:59:12","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T19:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/?p=12269"},"modified":"2022-03-15T16:18:38","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T20:18:38","slug":"freezing-temperatures-impact-florida-watermelon-producers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/2022\/03\/15\/freezing-temperatures-impact-florida-watermelon-producers\/","title":{"rendered":"Freezing temperatures impact Florida Watermelon producers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>North Florida Watermelon Plants Impacted by Sub-Freezing Temperatures<\/h2>\n<p>Sub-freezing temperatures impacted North Florida\u2019s newly planted watermelons. It is estimated that about 5,000 acres of the 7,000 acres normally produced in the Suwannee Valley were already planted. Specialists from the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF\/IFAS) expain the impact of this event.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-default btn-md\" href=\"https:\/\/specialtycropindustry.com\/florida-watermelon-plants-freeze\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 1053px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/specialtycropindustry.com\/early-start-for-north-florida-watermelon-planting\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/specialtycropindustry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/watermelon-field.shutterstock_285686012-1043x695.jpg\" alt=\"young watermelon plants in field\" width=\"1043\" height=\"695\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The early start will have a ripple effect and impact other production areas, including in South Florida where plants were impacted by the Jan. 30 freeze. Image courtesy of AgNet Media<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Florida Watermelon Plants Impacted by Sub-Freezing Temperatures<\/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":[631,570],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12269"}],"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=12269"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12277,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12269\/revisions\/12277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}