{"id":9317,"date":"2016-11-29T17:56:46","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T22:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=9317"},"modified":"2016-11-29T17:56:46","modified_gmt":"2016-11-29T22:56:46","slug":"cotton-yields-better-than-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/11\/cotton-yields-better-than-expected\/","title":{"rendered":"Cotton yields better than expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Southeast Farm Press<\/em> posted a story this week by Eddie McGriff of Alabama Extension discussing how good the cotton yields for both irrigated and dryland fields in Alabama this year. \u00a0This in spite of the drought that has deepened over the area over the last few months.<\/p>\n<p>Eddie noted that &#8220;We, in Alabama and much of the Southeast, came into the planting season with adequate to good subsurface moisture. Cotton is a deep-rooted crop that is able to withstand drought much better than corn or soybeans. Mild temperatures and a few timely rains allowed most growers to get their cotton crop planted in mid-to-late April and May.&#8221; \u00a0The drought may have actually helped in cotton growth by presenting day after day of dry, sunny conditions which really helped the cotton plants use the sunlight efficiently.<\/p>\n<p>You can read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/southeastfarmpress.com\/cotton\/cotton-yields-shouldn-t-have-been-good-why-they-were?NL=SEFP-01&amp;Issue=SEFP-01_20161128_SEFP-01_991&amp;sfvc4enews=42&amp;cl=article_2_b&amp;utm_rid=CPG02000002518665&amp;utm_campaign=12628&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;elq2=ed4bb18768494f0b8e1a8d4f577e277f\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7490\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7490\" style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/06\/Cotton_Plant.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7490\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/06\/Cotton_Plant-230x300.png\" alt=\"Source: Ashish Wankhade, Commons Wikimedia\" width=\"230\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/06\/Cotton_Plant-230x300.png 230w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/06\/Cotton_Plant-106x138.png 106w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/06\/Cotton_Plant.png 459w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7490\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Ashish Wankhade, Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Southeast Farm Press posted a story this week by Eddie McGriff of Alabama Extension discussing how good the cotton yields for both irrigated and dryland fields in Alabama this year. \u00a0This in spite of the drought that has deepened over the area over the last few months. Eddie noted that &#8220;We, in Alabama and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":7490,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9317","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\/9317","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=9317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9318,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9317\/revisions\/9318"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}