{"id":129342,"date":"2017-09-21T15:20:55","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T20:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=129342"},"modified":"2017-09-21T16:06:51","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T21:06:51","slug":"rain-helps-to-ease-drought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=129342","title":{"rendered":"Rain in western ND helps to ease drought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-124194\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Drought-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Drought-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Drought-260x175.jpg 260w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Drought.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 Drought in western North Dakota has eased significantly over the past week.<\/p>\n<p>The latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ag.ndsu.edu\/drought\">U.S. Drought Monitor<\/a> shows a reduction in extreme and exceptional drought from 19 percent to less than 4 percent, due to heavy rains. The northwestern corner of the state is the only area that remains in those categories of drought, which are the two worst.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, 87 percent of North Dakota is in some stage of drought, down from 93 percent last week.<\/p>\n<p>Seventy-two-percent of South Dakota is in some stage of drought, unchanged over the week. Areas in severe or extreme drought declined slightly, from 44 percent to 40 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The federal Agriculture Department reports that South Dakota leads major-producing states in very poor to poor ratings for sorghum, corn and soybean crops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 Drought in western North Dakota has eased significantly over the past week. The latest U.S. Drought Monitor shows a reduction in extreme and exceptional drought from 19 percent to less than 4 percent, due to heavy rains. The northwestern corner of the state is the only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":126789,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129342","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\/129342","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=129342"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129357,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129342\/revisions\/129357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/126789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}