{"id":11210,"date":"2017-05-23T07:35:13","date_gmt":"2017-05-23T11:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=11210"},"modified":"2017-05-23T07:35:13","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T11:35:13","slug":"new-climate-means-new-challenges-for-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/05\/new-climate-means-new-challenges-for-farmers\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;New climate means new challenges for farmers&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Yale Climate Connections<\/em> posted a story this week about the challenges farmers in the Midwest and the Plains are facing from recent changes in climate, including warmer winters, more downpours, and hotter summers. \u00a0The growing season length is increasing, which brings both challenges and opportunities. \u00a0You can read about what they are experiencing and how they are adapting at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yaleclimateconnections.org\/2017\/05\/new-climate-new-challenges-for-farmers\/\">https:\/\/www.yaleclimateconnections.org\/2017\/05\/new-climate-new-challenges-for-farmers\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6944\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6944\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/05\/flooded-corn-FEMA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6944\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/05\/flooded-corn-FEMA-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/05\/flooded-corn-FEMA-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/05\/flooded-corn-FEMA-207x138.jpg 207w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/05\/flooded-corn-FEMA.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6944\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Robert Kaufmann, FEMA Library<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yale Climate Connections posted a story this week about the challenges farmers in the Midwest and the Plains are facing from recent changes in climate, including warmer winters, more downpours, and hotter summers. \u00a0The growing season length is increasing, which brings both challenges and opportunities. \u00a0You can read about what they are experiencing and how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":6944,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11210","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\/11210","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=11210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11211,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11210\/revisions\/11211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}