{"id":1615,"date":"2014-12-19T17:27:44","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T22:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=1615"},"modified":"2014-12-19T17:27:44","modified_gmt":"2014-12-19T22:27:44","slug":"lingering-drought-still-affects-texas-agriculture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2014\/12\/lingering-drought-still-affects-texas-agriculture\/","title":{"rendered":"Lingering drought still affects Texas agriculture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>AgWeb<\/em>\u00a0published a report\u00a0today on a talk given to the Texas Plant Protection Association by\u00a0Carlos Rubinstein, chairman of the Texas Water Development Board.\u00a0 The talk covered\u00a0the effects of recent droughts on crop and livestock production in the state.\u00a0 Rubinstein reviewed the impacts of the 2009-2011 drought on farm incomes and discussed the growing population in Texas and what that might mean for future water needs.\u00a0 Dr. Travis Miller of Texas A&amp;M noted that the 2011 drought cost $7.6 billion in agricultural losses on top of those from earlier years.\u00a0 The beef herd went from 5.35 million in 2005 to 3.91 million in 2014 due to loss of pasture and heat stress.\u00a0 This has had other impacts such as closing of packing plants in the area.\u00a0 You can read the article by clicking <a title=\"AgWeb on impacts of TX drought\" href=\"https:\/\/www.agweb.com\/article\/expert-consequences-of-texas-drought-continue-to-linger-university-news-release\/?smartid=&amp;spMailingID=47666414&amp;spUserID=ODQxODg4MTEwMDgS1&amp;spJobID=583663564&amp;spReportId=NTgzNjYzNTY0S0\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AgWeb\u00a0published a report\u00a0today on a talk given to the Texas Plant Protection Association by\u00a0Carlos Rubinstein, chairman of the Texas Water Development Board.\u00a0 The talk covered\u00a0the effects of recent droughts on crop and livestock production in the state.\u00a0 Rubinstein reviewed the impacts of the 2009-2011 drought on farm incomes and discussed the growing population in Texas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":1101,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-drought"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615","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=1615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1616,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615\/revisions\/1616"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}