{"id":936,"date":"2014-09-27T13:49:37","date_gmt":"2014-09-27T17:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=936"},"modified":"2021-10-18T11:17:16","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T15:17:16","slug":"southeast-could-see-an-expansion-in-agriculture-under-changing-climate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2014\/09\/southeast-could-see-an-expansion-in-agriculture-under-changing-climate\/","title":{"rendered":"Southeast could see an expansion in agriculture under changing climate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Bloomburg Businessweek<\/em> published a map this week that caught my attention. \u00a0It shows the results of a recent research project by German scientists which predict changes in suitability for agriculture in the period 2071-2100 compared to the present under modeled changes in climate. \u00a0The map shows that the Southeast is an area which is predicted to be more suitable in the future for agricultural productivity than it is now. \u00a0The research takes into account productivity of the top 16 crops and accounts for changes in growing season, precipitation, availability of irrigation, and soils. \u00a0Increases in higher latitudes such as Canada are due primarily to increases in temperature and the length of the growing season. \u00a0Increases in the Southeast, by comparison, arise from both continued access to water and increases in the length of the growing season leading to more double and even triple cropping in the future.<\/p>\n<p>You can read the Bloomberg article <a title=\"Bloomberg changes in ag productivity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2014-09-18\/russia-is-seen-gaining-farmland-with-climate-change.html#disqus_thread\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>. \u00a0You can get the full research article at\u00a0<a title=\"Changes in agricultural productivity research\" href=\"https:\/\/www.plosone.org\/article\/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0107522\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.plosone.org\/article\/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0107522<\/a><\/p>\n<p>in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/09\/change-in-agricultural-suitability.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-937\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/09\/change-in-agricultural-suitability-300x161.jpg\" alt=\"change in agricultural suitability\" width=\"583\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/09\/change-in-agricultural-suitability-300x161.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/09\/change-in-agricultural-suitability-256x138.jpg 256w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/09\/change-in-agricultural-suitability.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 583px) 100vw, 583px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomburg Businessweek published a map this week that caught my attention. \u00a0It shows the results of a recent research project by German scientists which predict changes in suitability for agriculture in the period 2071-2100 compared to the present under modeled changes in climate. \u00a0The map shows that the Southeast is an area which is predicted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-crops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936","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=936"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22874,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions\/22874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}