{"id":6077,"date":"2016-02-12T21:17:06","date_gmt":"2016-02-13T02:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=6077"},"modified":"2016-02-12T21:17:06","modified_gmt":"2016-02-13T02:17:06","slug":"california-farmers-reap-record-sales-in-record-drought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/02\/california-farmers-reap-record-sales-in-record-drought\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;California Farmers Reap Record Sales in Record Drought&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While for many farmers, drought causes severe economic hardship, a new study of California farmers shows that some of them are doing very well economically in spite of over four years of drought, according to an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.agweb.com\/article\/california-farmers-reap-record-sales-in-record-drought--naa-associated-press\/?mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRohvq3BZKXonjHpfsX%2F6uUpXaeg38431UFwdcjKPmjr1YsITsp0aPyQAgobGp5I5FEATrPYRadit6IEWA%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> in <em>AgWeb<\/em> yesterday. \u00a0Some of the profits come from the surging value of crops like almonds, while others come from tapping into sinking groundwater levels.<\/p>\n<p>In the Southeast, drought is a boon for construction workers and outdoor recreation due to the absence of rainy days, and for agricultural producers who irrigate, the lower humidity values can reduce disease and pest issues, leading to lower costs of inputs like pesticides.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1101\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1101\" style=\"width: 199px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/10\/drought-cracked-ground-ars-usda-d186-2.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1101\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1101\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/10\/drought-cracked-ground-ars-usda-d186-2-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"Source: https:\/\/www.ars.usda.gov\/is\/graphics\/photos\/apr13\/d186-2.htm\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/10\/drought-cracked-ground-ars-usda-d186-2-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/10\/drought-cracked-ground-ars-usda-d186-2-91x138.jpg 91w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/10\/drought-cracked-ground-ars-usda-d186-2.jpg 426w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1101\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: https:\/\/www.ars.usda.gov\/is\/graphics\/photos\/apr13\/d186-2.htm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While for many farmers, drought causes severe economic hardship, a new study of California farmers shows that some of them are doing very well economically in spite of over four years of drought, according to an article in AgWeb yesterday. \u00a0Some of the profits come from the surging value of crops like almonds, while others [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":1101,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-crops","category-drought"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6077","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=6077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6078,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6077\/revisions\/6078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}