{"id":5591,"date":"2015-12-22T12:19:19","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T17:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=5591"},"modified":"2015-12-22T12:19:19","modified_gmt":"2015-12-22T17:19:19","slug":"california-farmers-take-a-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2015\/12\/california-farmers-take-a-break\/","title":{"rendered":"California farmers take a break"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Los Angeles Times<\/em> published a recent story on California farmers responding to 4+ years of drought. In addition to the drought they have experienced a number of related impacts, including decimation of some crops due to insect infestations.\u00a0 Some of them have run out of resources to keep farming and are taking a break from farming until conditions improve.\u00a0 Here is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/food\/dailydish\/la-dd-drought-farmers-20151214-story.html?mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRojsq%2FJZKXonjHpfsX%2F6uUpXaeg38431UFwdcjKPmjr1YQDTsN0aPyQAgobGp5I5FEATrPYRadit6IEWA%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a> to the story.<\/p>\n<p>What you you do after multiple years of drought?\u00a0 While it&#8217;s not likely, based on tree ring data from the past few centuries we know that even the relatively moist Southeast can occasionally experience decadal droughts.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5593\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5593\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/12\/la-me-chronicling-californias-drought-story-gallery-20140925.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5593\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5593\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/12\/la-me-chronicling-californias-drought-story-gallery-20140925-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Source: Los Angeles Times\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/12\/la-me-chronicling-californias-drought-story-gallery-20140925-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/12\/la-me-chronicling-californias-drought-story-gallery-20140925-245x138.jpg 245w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/12\/la-me-chronicling-californias-drought-story-gallery-20140925.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5593\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Los Angeles Times<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Times published a recent story on California farmers responding to 4+ years of drought. In addition to the drought they have experienced a number of related impacts, including decimation of some crops due to insect infestations.\u00a0 Some of them have run out of resources to keep farming and are taking a break [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":5593,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-drought","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5591","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=5591"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5594,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5591\/revisions\/5594"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}