{"id":3225,"date":"2015-05-26T23:00:10","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T03:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=3225"},"modified":"2015-05-26T23:01:11","modified_gmt":"2015-05-27T03:01:11","slug":"why-they-grow-thirsty-alfalfa-in-parched-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2015\/05\/why-they-grow-thirsty-alfalfa-in-parched-california\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Why they grow thirsty alfalfa in parched California&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>AgWeb<\/em> posted an interesting story from <em>Bloomberg \u00a0Businessweek<\/em> on the history of agriculture in California which explains why they grow so much alfalfa there, even though it is a very water-intensive crop. \u00a0Milk is the #1 agricultural commodity produced in California, edging out almonds and grapes. \u00a0Much of it is consumed in-state, but quite a bit is exported to other states as well. \u00a0The alfalfa is the most nutritious, highest protein feed for the dairy cattle and stores well. \u00a0You can read the story with the title above <a href=\"https:\/\/www.agweb.com\/article\/why-they-grow-thirsty-alfalfa-in-parched-california-blmg\/?smartid=ZZZZZZTZ12Z2221Z2ZZZZZZZZ2ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ&amp;spMailingID=48738082&amp;spUserID=ODQxODg4MTEwMDgS1&amp;spJobID=683203566&amp;spReportId=NjgzMjAzNTY2S0\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3226\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3226\" style=\"width: 199px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/05\/alfalfa-flower-k10747-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3226\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/05\/alfalfa-flower-k10747-1-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"Source: USDA ARS\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/05\/alfalfa-flower-k10747-1-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/05\/alfalfa-flower-k10747-1-91x138.jpg 91w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/05\/alfalfa-flower-k10747-1.jpg 425w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3226\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: USDA ARS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AgWeb posted an interesting story from Bloomberg \u00a0Businessweek on the history of agriculture in California which explains why they grow so much alfalfa there, even though it is a very water-intensive crop. \u00a0Milk is the #1 agricultural commodity produced in California, edging out almonds and grapes. \u00a0Much of it is consumed in-state, but quite a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":3226,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-crops","category-livestock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3225","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=3225"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3228,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3225\/revisions\/3228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}