{"id":6572,"date":"2012-03-06T02:00:44","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T10:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blitransfer.wpengine.com\/?p=6572"},"modified":"2017-06-21T14:19:55","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T19:19:55","slug":"no-more-water-for-texas-rice-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/2012\/03\/06\/no-more-water-for-texas-rice-farmers\/","title":{"rendered":"No More Water for Texas Rice Farmers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bluelivingidea.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Rice-Field.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6573\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/2012\/03\/06\/no-more-water-for-texas-rice-farmers\/rice-field\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Rice-Field.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"500,334\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Rice Field\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Rice Field&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Rice-Field-300x200.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Rice-Field.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6573\" title=\"Rice Field\" src=\"http:\/\/bluelivingidea.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Rice-Field.jpg\" alt=\"Rice Field\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Rice-Field.jpg 500w, https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Rice-Field-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>Low water levels in central and southeast Texas lakes means there will be no water released for irrigating rice this year.<\/p>\n<p>The Texas drought continues in most of the state. In the movies, Texas looks like it&#8217;s always semi-arid, <a href=\"http:\/\/bluelivingidea.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Texas-Drought-Map-Mar-06-2012.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6575\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/2012\/03\/06\/no-more-water-for-texas-rice-farmers\/texas-drought-map-mar-06-2012-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Texas-Drought-Map-Mar-06-2012.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"250,181\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Texas Drought Map Mar 06 2012\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Texas drought map Feb\/Mar 2012&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Texas-Drought-Map-Mar-06-2012.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Texas-Drought-Map-Mar-06-2012.jpg\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6575\" title=\"Texas Drought Map Mar 06 2012\" src=\"http:\/\/bluelivingidea.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Texas-Drought-Map-Mar-06-2012.jpg\" alt=\"Texas drought map Feb\/Mar 2012\" width=\"250\" height=\"181\" \/><\/a>but much of Texas receives enough water to produce wheat and corn without any irrigation at all.<\/p>\n<p>Rice is another matter. The rice-growing areas of Texas lie in swampy lowlands towards the Gulf coast. Even so, the lack of rain will make it hard to grow the rice this year.<\/p>\n<p>Texas produces about 5% of the rice in the U.S. and the Texas rice industry contributes about $394 million to the economy.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Rice Field\" href=\"http:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/cat.mhtml?lang=en&amp;search_source=search_form&amp;version=llv1&amp;anyorall=all&amp;safesearch=1&amp;searchterm=rice+field&amp;photos=on&amp;search_group=&amp;horizontal=on&amp;orient=&amp;search_cat=&amp;searchtermx=&amp;photographer_name=&amp;people_gender=&amp;people_age=&amp;people_ethnicity=&amp;people_number=&amp;commercial_ok=&amp;color=&amp;show_color_wheel=1&amp;secondary_submit=Search#id=92911000&amp;src=p-94539769\" target=\"_blank\">Rice field<\/a> photo via Shutterstock<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Low water levels in central and southeast Texas lakes means there will be no water released for irrigating rice this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":6573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[18,25],"tags":[2854,1822,2152],"yst_prominent_words":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Rice-Field.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6572"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6572"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=6572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}