{"id":10555,"date":"2017-03-26T22:36:57","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T02:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=10555"},"modified":"2017-03-26T22:44:05","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T02:44:05","slug":"10555","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/03\/10555\/","title":{"rendered":"When is it worth it to put in irrigation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Vegetable Growers News<\/em>\u00a0this week published a story describing the calculations needed to determine if it is worthwhile to put in an irrigation system to help protect against drought. \u00a0The calculations needed include consideration of a number of factors, including the frequency of drought, the cost of the equipment, and how climate is likely to change over time. \u00a0Their example is from the Yakima Valley but many of the principles are the same for the Southeast. \u00a0You can read it at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/vegetablegrowersnews.com\/news\/switch-new-irrigation-system-depends-future-droughts\/\">https:\/\/vegetablegrowersnews.com\/news\/switch-new-irrigation-system-depends-future-droughts\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1208\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1208\" style=\"width: 196px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/10\/irrigation-on-peanuts-ars-k11577-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1208\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/10\/irrigation-on-peanuts-ars-k11577-1-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/10\/irrigation-on-peanuts-ars-k11577-1-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/10\/irrigation-on-peanuts-ars-k11577-1-90x138.jpg 90w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/10\/irrigation-on-peanuts-ars-k11577-1.jpg 419w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1208\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: ARS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vegetable Growers News\u00a0this week published a story describing the calculations needed to determine if it is worthwhile to put in an irrigation system to help protect against drought. \u00a0The calculations needed include consideration of a number of factors, including the frequency of drought, the cost of the equipment, and how climate is likely to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":1208,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-crops","category-drought"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10555","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=10555"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10561,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10555\/revisions\/10561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}