{"id":126109,"date":"2017-08-01T09:51:25","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T14:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=126109"},"modified":"2017-08-01T16:18:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T21:18:00","slug":"hay-donations-distribution-established","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=126109","title":{"rendered":"Hay donations, distribution established"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-21857\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/NDSUsmall-300x202.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/NDSUsmall-300x202.png 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/NDSUsmall-259x175.png 259w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/NDSUsmall.png 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 North Dakota&#8217;s Agriculture Department, North Dakota State University and a Michigan-based nonprofit are joining in an effort to help provide hay for drought-stricken ranchers in North Dakota.<\/p>\n<p>The department and university have set up a site near the Fargo campus to accept hay donations that will be doled out to needy producers through a lottery process.<\/p>\n<p>Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring says Michigan-based Ag Community Relief is spearheading a large hay donation to the state this month. The first hay drawing will be in early September.<\/p>\n<p>The latest U.S. Drought Monitor map shows most of western North Dakota in extreme or exceptional drought, the two worst categories.<\/p>\n<p>The federal Agriculture Department reports that nearly three-fourths of the state&#8217;s alfalfa hay crop is in poor or very poor condition.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 North Dakota&#8217;s Agriculture Department, North Dakota State University and a Michigan-based nonprofit are joining in an effort to help provide hay for drought-stricken ranchers in North Dakota. The department and university have set up a site near the Fargo campus to accept hay donations that will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":126134,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126111,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126109\/revisions\/126111"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/126134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}