{"id":1524,"date":"2014-12-10T21:49:34","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T02:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=1524"},"modified":"2014-12-10T21:49:34","modified_gmt":"2014-12-11T02:49:34","slug":"new-zealand-farmers-feel-effects-of-el-nino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2014\/12\/new-zealand-farmers-feel-effects-of-el-nino\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand farmers feel effects of El Nino"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dairy farmers in New Zealand are facing serious consequences of water shortages that can be traced to the developing El Nino. \u00a0These water shortages have led to tighter restrictions on water use and have also reduced the availability of cheap energy from hydroelectric dams due to restrictions on how much water can be released. \u00a0The AgWeb article said that milk\u00a0production plunged in the 2012-2013 season during New Zealand\u2019s worst drought in 30 years, especially the largest\u00a0<strong>dairy<\/strong>\u00a0regions on the North Island. \u00a0This year, pasture growth has been good so far so dry conditions may be less damaging. \u00a0This is especially a concern with a slump in global dairy prices. \u00a0You can read the article <a title=\"NZ dairy farmers face El Nino drought\" href=\"https:\/\/www.agweb.com\/article\/new-zealand-farmers-face-water-restrictions-as-el-nino-develops-bloomberg\/?smartid=&amp;spMailingID=47587755&amp;spUserID=ODQxODg4MTEwMDgS1&amp;spJobID=581890790&amp;spReportId=NTgxODkwNzkwS0\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1525\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1525\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/12\/nz-dairy-cow.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1525\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/12\/nz-dairy-cow-300x236.jpg\" alt=\"Source: Commons WIkimedia\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/12\/nz-dairy-cow-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/12\/nz-dairy-cow-174x138.jpg 174w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/12\/nz-dairy-cow.jpg 608w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1525\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Commons WIkimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dairy farmers in New Zealand are facing serious consequences of water shortages that can be traced to the developing El Nino. \u00a0These water shortages have led to tighter restrictions on water use and have also reduced the availability of cheap energy from hydroelectric dams due to restrictions on how much water can be released. \u00a0The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":1525,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drought","category-livestock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524","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=1524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1526,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524\/revisions\/1526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}