{"id":1745,"date":"2015-01-13T22:00:14","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T03:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=1745"},"modified":"2015-01-13T22:21:48","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T03:21:48","slug":"iowa-uses-corn-rows-to-keep-snow-off-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2015\/01\/iowa-uses-corn-rows-to-keep-snow-off-roads\/","title":{"rendered":"Iowa uses corn rows to keep snow off roads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Usually when I think of climate and agriculture I think of how climate and weather affect crop growth. \u00a0But <em>AgWeb<\/em> posted a story this week that turns the usual order on its head. \u00a0They reported (<a title=\"Corn helps keep snow off roads\" href=\"https:\/\/www.agweb.com\/article\/iowa-uses-corn-rows-to-keep-snow-off-highways-associated-press\/?smartid=&amp;spMailingID=47793137&amp;spUserID=ODQxODg4MTEwMDgS1&amp;spJobID=601745435&amp;spReportId=NjAxNzQ1NDM1S0\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a>) that the Iowa Department of Transportation is paying about 70 farmers to keep several rows of corn next to roads standing through the winter to act as natural snow fences. \u00a0They help trap blowing snow, which keeps it off the roads and makes it easier to plow and keep the roads clear. \u00a0Once the winter is over, the farmers can go back and harvest the standing rows of corn. \u00a0So while usually weather affects agriculture through local growing conditions, in this case, local agriculture is helping to prevent impacts from a snowy winter. \u00a0Minnesota also has a program that pays farmers to grow living snow fences (<a title=\"Living snow fences\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dot.state.mn.us\/environment\/livingsnowfence\/antidrifting.html\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a>).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1746\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1746\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/01\/mn-dot-corn-snow-fence.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1746\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/01\/mn-dot-corn-snow-fence-300x185.png\" alt=\"Source: Minnesota Dept of Transportation\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/01\/mn-dot-corn-snow-fence-300x185.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/01\/mn-dot-corn-snow-fence-224x138.png 224w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/01\/mn-dot-corn-snow-fence.png 345w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1746\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Minnesota Dept of Transportation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Usually when I think of climate and agriculture I think of how climate and weather affect crop growth. \u00a0But AgWeb posted a story this week that turns the usual order on its head. \u00a0They reported (link) that the Iowa Department of Transportation is paying about 70 farmers to keep several rows of corn next to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":1746,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1745","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\/1745","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=1745"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1748,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745\/revisions\/1748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}