{"id":4150,"date":"2015-08-25T23:16:14","date_gmt":"2015-08-26T03:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=4150"},"modified":"2015-08-25T23:16:47","modified_gmt":"2015-08-26T03:16:47","slug":"alabama-farmers-hope-to-profit-from-sorghum-planted-in-wet-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2015\/08\/alabama-farmers-hope-to-profit-from-sorghum-planted-in-wet-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"Alabama farmers hope to profit from sorghum planted in wet spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Southeast Farm Press<\/em> published an <a href=\"https:\/\/southeastfarmpress.com\/soybeans\/grain-sorghum-bet-paying-alabama-farmers?NL=SEFP-01&amp;Issue=SEFP-01_20150824_SEFP-01_775&amp;sfvc4enews=42&amp;cl=article_2&amp;utm_rid=CPG02000001384126&amp;utm_campaign=5679&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;elq2=6e56655e0e794eb7b1ecbfbe16db3abc\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> this week describing the profits Alabama farmers hope to make this year from their sorghum crop. \u00a0The combination of a wet planting season and high prices convinced a number of farmers to plant grain sorghum instead of corn, and the crops are doing very well this year. \u00a0They hope the demand from China will continue to keep prices and profits high. \u00a0The farmers also noted that the drought tolerance of the sorghum was beneficial for the dry spells we have had this year.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2339\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2339\" style=\"width: 199px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/03\/sorghum-k11229-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2339\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/03\/sorghum-k11229-1-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"Source: USDA ARS\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/03\/sorghum-k11229-1-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/03\/sorghum-k11229-1-92x138.jpg 92w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/03\/sorghum-k11229-1.jpg 425w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2339\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: USDA ARS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Southeast Farm Press published an article this week describing the profits Alabama farmers hope to make this year from their sorghum crop. \u00a0The combination of a wet planting season and high prices convinced a number of farmers to plant grain sorghum instead of corn, and the crops are doing very well this year. \u00a0They [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":2339,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-crops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4150","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=4150"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4153,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4150\/revisions\/4153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}