{"id":1739,"date":"2015-01-13T11:12:23","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T16:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=1739"},"modified":"2015-01-13T11:12:23","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T16:12:23","slug":"wheat-and-climate-in-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2015\/01\/wheat-and-climate-in-the-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Wheat and climate in the news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An article by from scientists from the Southeast Climate Consortium (which helps support this blog) in <em>Nature<\/em> shows that rising temperatures around the globe have warming are &#8220;already slowing yield gains at a majority of wheat-growing locations. Global wheat production is estimated to fall by 6% for each \u00b0C of further temperature increase and become more variable over space and time&#8221;.\u00a0 Here is the <a title=\"Nature rising temps reduce wheat yield\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/nclimate\/journal\/vaop\/ncurrent\/full\/nclimate2470.html\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a> to the abstract (the full article is behind a paywall, sorry).\u00a0 A story on this Nature article can be found from Inhabit.com <a title=\"Wheat yield decreases in warmer temperatures\" href=\"https:\/\/inhabitat.com\/climate-change-poses-a-serious-threat-to-global-wheat-crops\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A blog posting from <em>Growing Georgia<\/em> described the work of some Kansas State University researchers, which have developed a heat-tolerant wheat gene which may improve wheat yields by up to 35%in a warmer climate.\u00a0 Here is the <a title=\"KSU heat tolerant wheat\" href=\"https:\/\/growinggeorgia.com\/news\/2015\/01\/ksu-researchers-develop-heat-tolerant-wheat-gene\/?utm_source=Growing+Georgia&amp;utm_campaign=85c7f481c4-growinggeorgia-daily_newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_4643f190f7-85c7f481c4-296638373\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a> to that story.<\/p>\n<p>An <a title=\"UARK wheat production and ideology\" href=\"https:\/\/newswire.uark.edu\/articles\/26177\/ideology-prevents-wheat-growers-from-converting-to-more-profitable-methods-new-study-shows\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> in the University of Arkansas <em>NewsWire<\/em> discusses why farmers will not consider switching from conventional to organic production of wheat even when profitability is not an issue.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1740\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1740\" style=\"width: 252px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/01\/wheat-ars-k7219-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1740\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/01\/wheat-ars-k7219-1.jpg\" alt=\"Source: USDA ARS\" width=\"252\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/01\/wheat-ars-k7219-1.jpg 252w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/01\/wheat-ars-k7219-1-208x138.jpg 208w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 252px) 100vw, 252px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1740\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: USDA ARS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article by from scientists from the Southeast Climate Consortium (which helps support this blog) in Nature shows that rising temperatures around the globe have warming are &#8220;already slowing yield gains at a majority of wheat-growing locations. Global wheat production is estimated to fall by 6% for each \u00b0C of further temperature increase and become [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":1740,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1739","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\/1739","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=1739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1741,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739\/revisions\/1741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}