{"id":5513,"date":"2015-12-15T09:58:20","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T14:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=5513"},"modified":"2015-12-15T09:58:20","modified_gmt":"2015-12-15T14:58:20","slug":"heavy-rains-cause-problems-for-oregon-dairies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2015\/12\/heavy-rains-cause-problems-for-oregon-dairies\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy rains cause problems for Oregon dairies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heavy rains in the Pacific Northwest this month have caused big problems for dairy farmers due to flooding rains, washed-out roads and loss of power. \u00a0The map below shows that some areas have received over 20 inches in the last two weeks. \u00a0<em>AgWeb<\/em> posted an article about the problems along with a gallery of photos <a href=\"https:\/\/www.agweb.com\/article\/oregon-dairy-farms-face-flooding-naa-dairy-herd-management\/?mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRojs6jMZKXonjHpfsX%2F6uUpXaeg38431UFwdcjKPmjr1YQATMB0aPyQAgobGp5I5FEATrPYRadit6IEWA%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>How do you handle flooding conditions when roads may be dangerous or impassable? \u00a0The floods in South Carolina show that the Southeast can receive a lot of rain too, and producers need to be prepared for delays in transportation, both into and out of the farm. \u00a0Analyses of trends in heavy rain have shown that they are increasing over time, so this is likely to become more of a concern in the future.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/12\/pnw-rain-dec-2015-to-date.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5514\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5514\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/12\/pnw-rain-dec-2015-to-date-300x232.png\" alt=\"pnw rain dec 2015 to date\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/12\/pnw-rain-dec-2015-to-date-300x232.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/12\/pnw-rain-dec-2015-to-date-179x138.png 179w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/12\/pnw-rain-dec-2015-to-date.png 688w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5515\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5515\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/12\/milk-tank-truck-in-flood.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5515\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5515\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/12\/milk-tank-truck-in-flood-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Source: Neahring Family Farm via AgWeb\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/12\/milk-tank-truck-in-flood-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/12\/milk-tank-truck-in-flood-103x138.jpg 103w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/12\/milk-tank-truck-in-flood.jpg 281w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5515\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Neahring Family Farm via AgWeb<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heavy rains in the Pacific Northwest this month have caused big problems for dairy farmers due to flooding rains, washed-out roads and loss of power. \u00a0The map below shows that some areas have received over 20 inches in the last two weeks. \u00a0AgWeb posted an article about the problems along with a gallery of photos [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":5515,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-livestock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5513","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=5513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5516,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5513\/revisions\/5516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}