{"id":12886,"date":"2017-10-25T14:09:51","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T18:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=12886"},"modified":"2017-10-25T14:10:11","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T18:10:11","slug":"auburn-agriculture-professor-seeks-to-expand-irrigation-in-alabama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/10\/auburn-agriculture-professor-seeks-to-expand-irrigation-in-alabama\/","title":{"rendered":"Auburn agriculture professor seeks to expand irrigation in Alabama"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s an interesting story about Dr. Brenda Ortiz, a colleague of mine at Auburn University who studies the impact of weather and climate on crops like wheat and corn. She has a new project with several other scientists in the Southeast to study the expansion of irrigation in Alabama.\u00a0 As the article points out, “In Alabama, only 15 percent of the land currently available for farming is irrigated, a far cry from Mississippi\u2019s 61 percent of cropland and Georgia\u2019s 40 percent. Over time, that lack of irrigation translates into huge revenue losses for the state\u2019s agricultural industry.” You can read more at OANOW.com<\/em> here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Auburn University researchers, including Auburn’s Brenda Ortiz (center), are working with other universities and agencies in the state to demonstrate and promote irrigation on farms. Shown are, from left to right, Jasmeet Lamba, Auburn University; Vernon Abney, Natural Resources and Conservation Service; Ortiz; Joseph Ellis, Auburn University student; Brent Shaw, participating farmer; and Puneet Srivastava, Auburn University.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s an interesting story about Dr. Brenda Ortiz, a colleague of mine at Auburn University who studies the impact of weather and climate on crops like wheat and corn. She has a new project with several other scientists in the Southeast to study the expansion of irrigation in Alabama.\u00a0 As the article points out, “In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":12887,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12886","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\/12886","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=12886"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12889,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12886\/revisions\/12889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}