{"id":4388,"date":"2015-09-13T16:32:45","date_gmt":"2015-09-13T20:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=4388"},"modified":"2015-09-13T16:33:01","modified_gmt":"2015-09-13T20:33:01","slug":"harvest-early-plant-cover-crops-this-year-due-to-el-nino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2015\/09\/harvest-early-plant-cover-crops-this-year-due-to-el-nino\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvest early, plant cover crops this year due to El Ni\u00f1o"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brad Haire reported in the <em>Southeast Farm Press<\/em> this week that farmers in the Southeast are being urged to harvest as soon as possible and to plant cover crops this winter to protect against the expected impacts from the strong El Ni\u00f1o this winter. \u00a0Rains could be as much as 50 percent above normal, leading to increased erosion and difficulty in field work as winter approaches. \u00a0You can read his blog post <a href=\"https:\/\/southeastfarmpress.com\/blog\/big-boy-coming-don-t-delay-harvest-or-planting-cover-crops?NL=SEFP-01&amp;Issue=SEFP-01_20150911_SEFP-01_783&amp;sfvc4enews=42&amp;cl=article_1_b&amp;utm_rid=CPG02000001384126&amp;utm_campaign=5996&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;elq2=ec7cea10b0a646029cf9c607e9183a12\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Two good impacts from the\u00a0El Ni\u00f1o include good growth of winter forage and good recharge of soil moisture over the winter this year due to the expected heavier than normal rainfall.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4389\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4389\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/09\/Drought_Cover_Crop_Oats_and_Vetch_-_Flickr_-_USDAgov.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4389\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/09\/Drought_Cover_Crop_Oats_and_Vetch_-_Flickr_-_USDAgov-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Source: USDA via Commons Wikimedia\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/09\/Drought_Cover_Crop_Oats_and_Vetch_-_Flickr_-_USDAgov-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/09\/Drought_Cover_Crop_Oats_and_Vetch_-_Flickr_-_USDAgov-207x138.jpg 207w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/09\/Drought_Cover_Crop_Oats_and_Vetch_-_Flickr_-_USDAgov.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4389\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: USDA via Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brad Haire reported in the Southeast Farm Press this week that farmers in the Southeast are being urged to harvest as soon as possible and to plant cover crops this winter to protect against the expected impacts from the strong El Ni\u00f1o this winter. \u00a0Rains could be as much as 50 percent above normal, leading [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":4389,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4388","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\/4388","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=4388"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4391,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4388\/revisions\/4391"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}