{"id":60428,"date":"2023-12-08T16:50:40","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T07:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2023\/dec\/08\/weather-tracker-low-mississippi-river-levels-farmers-grain"},"modified":"2023-12-08T16:50:40","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T07:50:40","slug":"weather-tracker-low-mississippi-river-levels-take-toll-on-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=60428","title":{"rendered":"Weather tracker: Low Mississippi River levels take toll on farmers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Economic loss from disruption on important travel route for grain exports estimated to be $20bn<\/p>\n<p>Extreme drought and a warm autumn have left water levels on the Mississippi exceptionally low for the time of year. This is causing problems for farmers who rely on the river as a travel route for the crops: 60% of US grain exports use the waterway to reach the Gulf coasts.<\/p>\n<p>The total economic loss is estimated to be about $20bn and, despite attempts to dredge the river, it remains worryingly low as the country enters an important month for grain transport.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2023\/dec\/08\/weather-tracker-low-mississippi-river-levels-farmers-grain\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Economic loss from disruption on important travel route for grain exports estimated to be $20bnExtreme drought and a warm autumn have left water levels on the Mississippi exceptionally low for the time of year. This is causing problems for farmers who &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4058,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[65,455,313,62,972,61,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-extreme-weather","category-flooding","category-india","category-rivers","category-south-and-central-asia","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4058"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60429,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60428\/revisions\/60429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}