{"id":570,"date":"2014-08-15T12:00:57","date_gmt":"2014-08-15T16:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=570"},"modified":"2021-10-18T11:13:40","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T15:13:40","slug":"variations-in-climate-have-distinct-effects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2014\/08\/variations-in-climate-have-distinct-effects\/","title":{"rendered":"Variations in climate have distinct effects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two articles that were published this week describe the differences in crop yield that come from global variations in climate.\u00a0 <em>Growing Georgia<\/em> posted an article which pointed out that nearly ideal climate conditions in the Grain Belt have led to predictions of a near-record crop, leading to price reductions which could cause farmers to take an economic hit.\u00a0 You can read that article by clicking <a title=\"Farmers could take hit on prices due to Midwest climate\" href=\"https:\/\/growinggeorgia.com\/features\/2014\/08\/farmers-could-take-25-hit-2014-crop-expert-says\/?utm_source=Growing+Georgia&amp;utm_campaign=93a7521009-growinggeorgia-daily_newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_4643f190f7-93a7521009-296638373\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, <em>Reuters<\/em> (in <em>Yahoo News<\/em>) posted an article describing how El Nino effects are already negatively impacting drought conditions in Central America.\u00a0 Reduced rainfall has caused increasing drought, food shortages, and worsening hunger in recent months.\u00a0 Even though an El Nino has not officially developed yet, the early precursors of what is expected to be a weak El Nino have already caused problems for farmers in this part of the world.\u00a0 You can read this story by clicking <a title=\"Drought in Central American\" href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/central-america-braces-drought-linked-food-crisis-173943184.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two articles that were published this week describe the differences in crop yield that come from global variations in climate.\u00a0 Growing Georgia posted an article which pointed out that nearly ideal climate conditions in the Grain Belt have led to predictions of a near-record crop, leading to price reductions which could cause farmers to take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570","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=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22726,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions\/22726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}