{"id":9805,"date":"2017-01-21T00:17:58","date_gmt":"2017-01-21T05:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=9805"},"modified":"2017-01-21T00:17:58","modified_gmt":"2017-01-21T05:17:58","slug":"climate-change-may-reduce-some-u-s-grain-harvests-by-half","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/01\/climate-change-may-reduce-some-u-s-grain-harvests-by-half\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Climate Change May Reduce Some U.S. Grain Harvests by Half&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>AgWeb<\/em> reprinted a story from <em>Bloomberg News<\/em> this week describing some troubling results of a study by researchers from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and the University of Chicago. \u00a0The study shows that with the warmer temperatures expected from global warming, yields of corn and soybeans could drop significantly.<\/p>\n<p>According to the article, for each day above 30 degrees Celsius (86 Fahrenheit), corn and soybean harvests could lose about 5 percent,\u00a0according to the findings. \u00a0Nighttime temperatures are also rising, and this also has negative impacts on crops such as rice. \u00a0You can read the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.agweb.com\/article\/climate-change-may-reduce-some-us-grain-harvests-by-half-blmg\/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTW1Gak1HTmtOMk0wWVRBNSIsInQiOiJnMnFhV1lPSnBQWTdcLzM2RXlkWlI1MGt1WlVpWVBVKzdUcHRnYllFb281Wk5tM29UVDlPXC9aRVdKN25MSmNndUY2dlRYbnJYWkl0d1RwUFFFK2kyZ0luSktpQzZFUkdlaGZia0JxcmVUY1ZZQkpqQUN6YjQxbmcra0hYRWJ4emVOIn0%3D\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7817\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7817\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/Corn_in_Farm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7817\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/Corn_in_Farm-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/Corn_in_Farm-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/Corn_in_Farm-207x138.jpg 207w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/Corn_in_Farm.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7817\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Wiki.j0hn620, Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AgWeb reprinted a story from Bloomberg News this week describing some troubling results of a study by researchers from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and the University of Chicago. \u00a0The study shows that with the warmer temperatures expected from global warming, yields of corn and soybeans could drop significantly. According to the article, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":7817,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-climate-science","category-crops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9805","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=9805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9806,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9805\/revisions\/9806"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}