{"id":7178,"date":"2016-05-26T23:27:10","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T03:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=7178"},"modified":"2016-05-26T23:27:10","modified_gmt":"2016-05-27T03:27:10","slug":"warm-spring-causes-difficulty-for-northwest-alfalfa-growers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/05\/warm-spring-causes-difficulty-for-northwest-alfalfa-growers\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Warm Spring Causes Difficulty for Northwest Alfalfa Growers&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>AgWeb<\/em> posted an interesting story earlier this week about problems that farmers in the Pacific Northwest are having growing alfalfa this year. \u00a0Spring has been very warm and that has caused the crop to mature earlier, which the author said resulted in stems growing at the expense of leaves. \u00a0This means that while tonnage is high, the nutritional value is not very high quality. \u00a0You can read the story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.agweb.com\/article\/warm-spring-causes-difficulty-for-northwest-alfalfa-growers-naa-associated-press\/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTkdReE5qSTRaRFJrTTJRMSIsInQiOiJOeDduenh1YUNXXC9kcnY4QWRJdFc0TDRwaHR4RHRpNWI0U1R5TkRzTStUcjdOaHBSTktYU0d1WStvYjlGY3dId3BhYWp5WDN1TkR3a0F6RTdsQWc1eGRoN3dSZkkxWUMrWm1Jb2R5eW9cL1lZPSJ9\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7179\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7179\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/05\/Alfalfa_round_bales.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7179\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/05\/Alfalfa_round_bales-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Source: Gary D. Robson, Commons Wikimedia\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/05\/Alfalfa_round_bales-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/05\/Alfalfa_round_bales-208x138.jpg 208w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/05\/Alfalfa_round_bales.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7179\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Gary D. Robson, Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AgWeb posted an interesting story earlier this week about problems that farmers in the Pacific Northwest are having growing alfalfa this year. \u00a0Spring has been very warm and that has caused the crop to mature earlier, which the author said resulted in stems growing at the expense of leaves. \u00a0This means that while tonnage is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":7179,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-crops","category-livestock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7178","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=7178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7180,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7178\/revisions\/7180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}