{"id":20237,"date":"2020-09-06T23:15:20","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T03:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=20237"},"modified":"2020-09-06T23:15:22","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T03:15:22","slug":"western-drought-causes-ranchers-to-worry-about-future-climate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2020\/09\/western-drought-causes-ranchers-to-worry-about-future-climate\/","title":{"rendered":"Western drought causes ranchers to worry about future climate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The severe drought in the western United States is causing many issues for agricultural producers. Fires are burning up rangeland and forests, and the extremely dry conditions have shut down the growth of grasses needed for production of cattle. This is causing ranchers concern about how rising temperatures may be leading to longer and stronger droughts and how that might affect their long-term sustainability. There are no easy choices for what to do. You can read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/nmpoliticalreport.com\/2020\/08\/12\/as-the-climate-warms-ranchers-keep-their-eyes-on-the-grass\/\">https:\/\/nmpoliticalreport.com\/2020\/08\/12\/as-the-climate-warms-ranchers-keep-their-eyes-on-the-grass\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"213\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/10\/livestock-drought-hands.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8920\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/10\/livestock-drought-hands.jpg 320w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/10\/livestock-drought-hands-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/10\/livestock-drought-hands-207x138.jpg 207w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><figcaption>Source: Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The severe drought in the western United States is causing many issues for agricultural producers. Fires are burning up rangeland and forests, and the extremely dry conditions have shut down the growth of grasses needed for production of cattle. This is causing ranchers concern about how rising temperatures may be leading to longer and stronger [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":8920,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20237","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\/20237","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=20237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20238,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20237\/revisions\/20238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}