{"id":1014,"date":"2014-10-08T10:27:55","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T14:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=1014"},"modified":"2021-10-18T11:16:54","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T15:16:54","slug":"usda-blog-highlights-tools-for-agriculture-and-climate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2014\/10\/usda-blog-highlights-tools-for-agriculture-and-climate\/","title":{"rendered":"USDA blog highlights tools for agriculture and climate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday&#8217;s USDA blog <a title=\"USDA blog on U2U\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.usda.gov\/2014\/10\/07\/farmers-go-digital-to-confront-changing-growing-conditions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Farmers go digital to confront changing growing conditions&#8221;<\/a> highlights agricultural tools developed for the Midwest by the U2U group (&#8220;Useful to Usable&#8221;) at Purdue University and affiliated universities which show variations in climate patterns by El Nino phase and how they affect yields and other agricultural variables.\u00a0 You can see one of their tools, the Climate Pattern Viewer, by going <a title=\"Midwest climate pattern viewer\" href=\"https:\/\/mygeohub.org\/groups\/u2u\/cpv?utm_source=U2U+August+2014+Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=August+2014&amp;utm_medium=email\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We have a similar tool in the Southeast at <a title=\"Agroclimate\" href=\"https:\/\/www.agroclimate.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AgroClimate.org<\/a>.\u00a0 This web site was developed to provide producers in the Southeast with information on how El Nino and La Nina affect local climate conditions, giving farmers a heads-up on what to expect in upcoming seasons.\u00a0 While we are still in neutral conditions now, a weak El Nino has a better-than-even chance of forming and affecting the weather in some parts of the Southeast this coming winter.\u00a0 This could make for cooler and wetter conditions than normal in south Alabama and Georgia and into Florida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday&#8217;s USDA blog &#8220;Farmers go digital to confront changing growing conditions&#8221; highlights agricultural tools developed for the Midwest by the U2U group (&#8220;Useful to Usable&#8221;) at Purdue University and affiliated universities which show variations in climate patterns by El Nino phase and how they affect yields and other agricultural variables.\u00a0 You can see one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-tools-for-climate-and-agriculture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014","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\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1014"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22851,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014\/revisions\/22851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}