{"id":11092,"date":"2012-10-30T14:04:59","date_gmt":"2012-10-30T19:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=11092"},"modified":"2012-10-30T14:04:59","modified_gmt":"2012-10-30T19:04:59","slug":"canola-is-coming-why-oklahoma-wheat-farmers-might-give-a-crop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2012\/10\/30\/canola-is-coming-why-oklahoma-wheat-farmers-might-give-a-crop\/","title":{"rendered":"Canola is Coming: Why Oklahoma Wheat Farmers Might Give a Crop"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11093\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wheatfields\/778910151\/sizes\/z\/in\/photostream\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11093\" title=\"Canola\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/10\/canola-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/10\/canola-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/10\/canola-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/10\/canola-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/10\/canola-620x465.jpg 620w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/10\/canola-632x474.jpg 632w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/10\/canola-536x402.jpg 536w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/10\/canola.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Net_Efect \/ flickr<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\n<\/div><p>Northstar Agri Industries on Monday announced plans to build a canola processing plant in Enid. Construction won&#8217;t begin for a year, <em>The Oklahoman<\/em>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/newsok.com\/canola-plant-coming-to-enid\/article\/3723652?custom_click=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+newsok%2Fbusiness+%28NewsOK.com+RSS+-+business%29\">Paula Burkes reports<\/a>, but the plant means more than 50 jobs for the state.<\/p><p>The bigger news, however, is for Oklahoma farmers \u2014 especially wheat farmers. So why should the state&#8217;s grain producers give a flip about a mere field mustard? Brent Kisling, executive director of the Enid Regional Development Alliance explains:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Research shows farmers who plant two years of winter wheat followed by a year of Canola can increase their wheat yields by 15 percent to 20 percent, he said. And by using herbicides on the canola, he said, they can clean up weed problems.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northstar Agri Industries on Monday announced plans to build a canola processing plant in Enid. Construction won&#8217;t begin for a year, The Oklahoman&#8216;s Paula Burkes reports, but the plant means more than 50 jobs for the state.The bigger news, however, is for Oklahoma farmers \u2014 especially wheat farmers. So why should the state&#8217;s grain producers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":11093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[301],"tags":[313,422],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11092"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11096,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11092\/revisions\/11096"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}