{"id":24838,"date":"2022-10-24T22:40:25","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T02:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=24838"},"modified":"2022-10-24T22:40:28","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T02:40:28","slug":"droughts-continue-to-cause-problems-for-crop-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2022\/10\/droughts-continue-to-cause-problems-for-crop-farmers\/","title":{"rendered":"Droughts continue to cause problems for crop farmers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Drought across many parts of the world is causing problems for farmers that are either harvesting their summer crops or planting winter ones. In Europe, a drought combined with several heat waves devastated maize production there, causing shortages that may be a 15-year low for the crop, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/europes-farmers-bring-drought-scarred-maize-crop-2022-10-07\/\">Reuters<\/a>.  The droughts there and in other production areas plus the continuing war in Ukraine are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/markets\/commodities\/droughts-ukraine-war-push-global-grain-stocks-toward-worrying-decade-low-2022-09-26\/\">causing grain stocks to be at very low levels<\/a>. Meanwhile, in the US, drought in the center of the country is forcing winter wheat producers to plant into very dry soils, which is reducing stands and stunting growth. <em>Inside Climate News<\/em> describes how this year&#8217;s drought has killed off one Texas cotton farmer&#8217;s crop, and the flow of grain down the Mississippi has ground to a halt with river levels that are so low that barges cannot float down their usual channels, according to the Delta Farm Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2022\/10\/Barge-Mississippi-Shallow.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"770\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2022\/10\/Barge-Mississippi-Shallow.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24839\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2022\/10\/Barge-Mississippi-Shallow.jpeg 770w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2022\/10\/Barge-Mississippi-Shallow-300x156.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2022\/10\/Barge-Mississippi-Shallow-768x399.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>A barge travels upstream on the Mississippi River near Caurthersville, Mo., in early October.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drought across many parts of the world is causing problems for farmers that are either harvesting their summer crops or planting winter ones. In Europe, a drought combined with several heat waves devastated maize production there, causing shortages that may be a 15-year low for the crop, according to Reuters. The droughts there and in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":24839,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24838","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\/24838","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=24838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24840,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24838\/revisions\/24840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}