{"id":4322,"date":"2015-09-07T22:29:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T02:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=4322"},"modified":"2015-09-08T09:45:55","modified_gmt":"2015-09-08T13:45:55","slug":"trying-to-grow-rice-in-wisconsin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2015\/09\/trying-to-grow-rice-in-wisconsin\/","title":{"rendered":"Trying to grow rice in Wisconsin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I was driving home from the airport today, I heard this interesting story about attempts to grow rice in Wisconsin on <em>National Public Radio<\/em>. \u00a0You can listen to the story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thesalt\/2015\/09\/07\/438249071\/rice-finds-a-welcome-home-in-wisconsin-paddies\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A Marquette University professor is trying to grow rice in the climate of Wisconsin to see if he can get it to produce enough rice to consider growing commercially. \u00a0After testing many different varieties, he found one from Russia that seems to be not only surviving but producing quite well. \u00a0It shows that in the future there may be many other species that can be used to expand the range of possible crops in a different climate.<\/p>\n<p><em>AgWeb<\/em> posted a separate article this week on other research scientists are doing in Texas to reduce stress and increase rice yield. \u00a0You can read that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.agweb.com\/article\/texas-researchers-look-at-ways-to-reduce-stress-boost-yield-in-rice-NAA-university-news-release\/?mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRokvKzJZKXonjHpfsX%2F6uUpXaeg38431UFwdcjKPmjr1YACT8N0aPyQAgobGp5I5FEATrPYRadit6IEWA%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4323\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4323\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/09\/rice-Camargue_fg02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4323\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/09\/rice-Camargue_fg02-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Source: Fritz Geller-Grimm, Commons Wikimedia\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/09\/rice-Camargue_fg02-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/09\/rice-Camargue_fg02-207x138.jpg 207w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/09\/rice-Camargue_fg02.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4323\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Fritz Geller-Grimm, Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I was driving home from the airport today, I heard this interesting story about attempts to grow rice in Wisconsin on National Public Radio. \u00a0You can listen to the story here. A Marquette University professor is trying to grow rice in the climate of Wisconsin to see if he can get it to produce [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":4323,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4322","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\/4322","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=4322"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4326,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4322\/revisions\/4326"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}