{"id":6091,"date":"2016-02-15T11:12:13","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T16:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=6091"},"modified":"2016-02-15T11:12:13","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T16:12:13","slug":"could-iowa-become-the-new-cotton-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/02\/could-iowa-become-the-new-cotton-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Could Iowa become the new cotton state?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>BBC News<\/em> published a news story this weekend discussing the likely changes we are likely to see in US agriculture if warming trends continue.\u00a0 The story was based on a recently published study of how extreme events like the Dust Bowl of the 1930s would affect agriculture if it happened in a warmer climate in the future.<\/p>\n<p>The story states that &#8220;A repeat of 1930s weather today would lead to a 40% loss in maize production.\u00a0 In a 2-degree warmer world, it becomes a 65% reduction, the team projects.&#8221;\u00a0 They also note that many crops will tend to migrate northward over time in the warmer conditions and traditional southern crops can no longer yield profitable crops in the hotter conditions.<\/p>\n<p>You can read the article at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/science-environment-35566151\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/science-environment-35566151<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2364\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2364\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/03\/Cotton_field_Brooks_County.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2364\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2364\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/03\/Cotton_field_Brooks_County-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Source: USDA ARS\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/03\/Cotton_field_Brooks_County-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/03\/Cotton_field_Brooks_County-184x138.jpg 184w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/03\/Cotton_field_Brooks_County.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2364\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: USDA ARS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC News published a news story this weekend discussing the likely changes we are likely to see in US agriculture if warming trends continue.\u00a0 The story was based on a recently published study of how extreme events like the Dust Bowl of the 1930s would affect agriculture if it happened in a warmer climate in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":2364,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6091","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\/6091","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=6091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6092,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6091\/revisions\/6092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}