{"id":23335,"date":"2021-12-20T21:58:01","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T02:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=23335"},"modified":"2021-12-20T21:58:04","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T02:58:04","slug":"usda-a-producers-guide-to-drought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2021\/12\/usda-a-producers-guide-to-drought\/","title":{"rendered":"USDA: A Producer\u2019s Guide to Drought"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The USDA has a website called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.farmers.gov\/\">Farmers.gov<\/a> that I have not visited before. It has a lot of very useful information for farmers, including links to programs for disaster relief, crop insurance, and planning for natural disasters. This week&#8217;s blog post is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.farmers.gov\/blog\/disaster-planning-and-assistance\/a-producers-guide-to-drought?state=\">guide to drought programs<\/a> that you might find useful the next time you are in a drought or are trying to plan for how to make your farm more resilient to extreme weather. Check it out and see what information is of most use to you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/06\/nw-georgia-drought-busted-haying.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/06\/nw-georgia-drought-busted-haying.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/06\/nw-georgia-drought-busted-haying.jpg 700w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/06\/nw-georgia-drought-busted-haying-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/06\/nw-georgia-drought-busted-haying-207x138.jpg 207w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>A trio tractors rake, bale and collect straw at Scoggins Farm, a family farm on West Armuchee Road in South Walker County, Ga., on June 1, 2017. Plentiful rain so far this spring has fostered a far better growing season so far, local agriculture officials say.\nPhoto by Ben Benton \/Times Free Press.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The USDA has a website called Farmers.gov that I have not visited before. It has a lot of very useful information for farmers, including links to programs for disaster relief, crop insurance, and planning for natural disasters. This week&#8217;s blog post is a guide to drought programs that you might find useful the next time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":11357,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23335","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\/23335","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=23335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23336,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23335\/revisions\/23336"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}