{"id":1140,"date":"2014-11-06T07:47:32","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T12:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1140"},"modified":"2014-11-06T07:47:32","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T12:47:32","slug":"chinas-parched-plains-ending-run-of-record-corn-harvests-bloomberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1140","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Parched Plains Ending Run of Record Corn Harvests &#8211; Bloomberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2014-11-05\/china-s-parched-plains-ending-run-of-record-corn-harvests.html\">China\u2019s Parched Plains Ending Run of Record Corn Harvests &#8211; Bloomberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 28px; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.3125em;\">The record surge in Chinese corn output is over, and Dong Yushan doesn\u2019t have to look much farther than his dusty fields in\u00a0<a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; color: #003399; text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; font-family: akzidenz-grotesk-std-bloom, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.bloomberg.com\/henan-province\/\">Henan province<\/a>\u00a0to see why.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 28px; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.3125em;\">A lack of rain from May to August turned into the worst drought the 67-year-old farmer ever saw. He could irrigate only twice and harvested just 2.5 metric tons of grain, half his normal haul from 8 mu of land, an area equal to 0.5 hectares.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 28px; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.3125em;\">\u201cSome of my neighbors are not so lucky,\u201d Dong said by phone from his home near Pingdingshan on the North\u00a0<a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; color: #003399; text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; font-family: akzidenz-grotesk-std-bloom, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.bloomberg.com\/china\/\">China<\/a>\u00a0Plain. \u201cThere isn\u2019t enough irrigation for everyone in this region.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 28px; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.3125em;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s Parched Plains Ending Run of Record Corn Harvests &#8211; Bloomberg. The record surge in Chinese corn output is over, and Dong Yushan doesn\u2019t have to look much farther than his dusty fields in\u00a0Henan province\u00a0to see why. A lack of rain from May to August turned into the worst drought the 67-year-old farmer ever saw. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[20,130,220,319],"class_list":["post-1140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-agriculture","tag-china","tag-drought","tag-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1141,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140\/revisions\/1141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}