{"id":715014,"date":"2022-01-28T15:49:41","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T19:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=715014"},"modified":"2022-01-28T15:49:41","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T19:49:41","slug":"how-the-future-of-us-corn-soybean-and-wheat-production-depends-on-sustainable-groundwater-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=715014","title":{"rendered":"How the future of US corn, soybean and wheat production depends on sustainable groundwater use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the U.S., 52% of irrigated land is used for corn, soybean and winter wheat production. Corn and soybean are two of the country&#8217;s most important crops, with 17% of corn production and 12% of soybean production coming from irrigated areas. However, the water used for this irrigation is often unsustainably pumped groundwater.\u00a0 According to a recent Dartmouth-led study published in Earth&#8217;s Future, using groundwater sustainably for agriculture in the U.S. could dramatically reduce the production of corn, soybean and winter wheat.\u00a0&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2022-01-future-corn-soybean-wheat-production.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">How the future of US corn, soybean and wheat production depends on sustainable groundwater use<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the U.S., 52% of irrigated land is used for corn, soybean and winter wheat production. Corn and soybean are two of the country&#8217;s most important crops, with 17% of&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-715014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=715014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=715014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=715014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=715014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}