{"id":10112,"date":"2017-02-17T21:43:24","date_gmt":"2017-02-18T02:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=10112"},"modified":"2017-02-17T21:43:24","modified_gmt":"2017-02-18T02:43:24","slug":"controlled-drainage-can-boost-north-carolina-blacklands-corn-yields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/02\/controlled-drainage-can-boost-north-carolina-blacklands-corn-yields\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Controlled drainage can boost North Carolina Blacklands&#8217; corn yields&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Southeast Farm Press<\/em> reported this week that long-standing research in North Carolina shows corn and soybean yields in the Blacklands can be increased by 10 percent on average if control drainage systems are in place to manage water. \u00a0These systems not only get excess rainfall off of the fields quickly but also have the capability to store it for use later if conditions get dry. \u00a0The article discusses the use of tiling and of drainage ditches as well as shallow water furrows. \u00a0You can read it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southeastfarmpress.com\/corn\/controlled-drainage-can-boost-north-carolina-blacklands-corn-yields?NL=SEFP-01&amp;Issue=SEFP-01_20170217_SEFP-01_307&amp;sfvc4enews=42&amp;cl=article_3_b&amp;utm_rid=CPG02000002518665&amp;utm_campaign=14692&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;elq2=6387d01780ca4269ba8e1161a921ac4a\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6547\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6547\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/03\/floodedscfield.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6547\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/03\/floodedscfield-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/03\/floodedscfield-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/03\/floodedscfield-245x138.jpg 245w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/03\/floodedscfield.jpg 390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6547\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Zack Snipes\/ Clemson University<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Southeast Farm Press reported this week that long-standing research in North Carolina shows corn and soybean yields in the Blacklands can be increased by 10 percent on average if control drainage systems are in place to manage water. \u00a0These systems not only get excess rainfall off of the fields quickly but also have the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":6547,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-crops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10112","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\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10113,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10112\/revisions\/10113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}