{"id":29934,"date":"2026-04-27T23:15:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T03:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=29934"},"modified":"2026-04-27T23:15:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T03:15:39","slug":"producers-share-drought-condition-reports-across-the-southeast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2026\/04\/producers-share-drought-condition-reports-across-the-southeast\/","title":{"rendered":"Producers Share Drought Condition Reports Across the Southeast"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My phone and email have been very busy in recent weeks with questions about the current extreme drought, the wildfires scattered across the region, and the potential for a change in the weather pattern that might bring more rain to the area. Southeast AgNet posted a recent story describing some of the comments that producers are making about the effects of the current drought on their farms. You can read it at <a href=\"https:\/\/southeastagnet.com\/2026\/04\/21\/georgia-drought-farmers-irrigation-costs-peanut-outlook\/\">https:\/\/southeastagnet.com\/2026\/04\/21\/georgia-drought-farmers-irrigation-costs-peanut-outlook\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2026\/04\/ga-drought-april-2026.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"819\" height=\"541\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2026\/04\/ga-drought-april-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29935\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2026\/04\/ga-drought-april-2026.jpg 819w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2026\/04\/ga-drought-april-2026-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2026\/04\/ga-drought-april-2026-768x507.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Photo by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@hdbernd?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bernd ? Dittrich<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/a-large-field-with-a-dirt-road-in-the-middle-of-it-0NEIAWrRF9g?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Unsplash<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My phone and email have been very busy in recent weeks with questions about the current extreme drought, the wildfires scattered across the region, and the potential for a change in the weather pattern that might bring more rain to the area. Southeast AgNet posted a recent story describing some of the comments that producers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":29935,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-crops","category-drought"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29934","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=29934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29936,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29934\/revisions\/29936"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}