My guess is that your results are cached on the production environment.
Try bypassing cache by adding this to your query args:
'cache_results' => false,
See https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_query/#caching-parameters
My guess is that your results are cached on the production environment.
Try bypassing cache by adding this to your query args:
'cache_results' => false,
See https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_query/#caching-parameters