{"id":96,"date":"2014-04-29T14:33:01","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T18:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=96"},"modified":"2021-10-18T11:09:26","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T15:09:26","slug":"oklahomas-variable-climate-helping-scientists-understand-ag-impacts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2014\/04\/oklahomas-variable-climate-helping-scientists-understand-ag-impacts\/","title":{"rendered":"Oklahoma&#8217;s variable climate helping scientists understand ag impacts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>National Public Radio<\/em> reported\u00a0 on April 24 that scientists from the University of Oklahoma are using a large research facility near El Reno to study the relationships between climate, crops, soil and livestock.\u00a0\u00a0 They are doing this by equipping research pastures and wheat fields with sensors to monitor the fluxes of water, carbon, and methane between the atmosphere and ground.\u00a0 The goal is to understand how trends such as warming temperatures will affect evaporation and other environmental factors and ultimately identify more flexible management practices so that farmers can increase productivity.\u00a0 This work is being done as part of the research program at the Southern Plains USDA regional climate hub.\u00a0 The Southeast&#8217;s USDA climate hub is located in Raleigh, NC.\u00a0 For the story, click <a title=\"OK research on climate variability and agriculture\" href=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2014\/04\/24\/what-an-oklahoma-grazing-land-can-teach-us-about-global-climate-change\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Public Radio reported\u00a0 on April 24 that scientists from the University of Oklahoma are using a large research facility near El Reno to study the relationships between climate, crops, soil and livestock.\u00a0\u00a0 They are doing this by equipping research pastures and wheat fields with sensors to monitor the fluxes of water, carbon, and methane [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","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=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions\/97"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}