{"id":11713,"date":"2012-12-04T15:43:49","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T21:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=11713"},"modified":"2012-12-04T15:43:49","modified_gmt":"2012-12-04T21:43:49","slug":"the-cost-of-oklahomas-drought-2-billion-in-two-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2012\/12\/04\/the-cost-of-oklahomas-drought-2-billion-in-two-years\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cost of Oklahoma\u2019s Drought: $2 Billion in Two Years"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Researchers at Oklahoma State University have been analyzing the ongoing drought<\/a> and estimating the state’s tab<\/a> of overall\u00a0economic losses.<\/p>

The financial impact from drought-related crop and livestock losses, wildfire damage and other municipal costs totaled more than $426 million in 2012, researchers found:<\/p>\n

Combined with last year\u2019s $1.6 billion setback, the state has suffered more than $2 billion in drought-related agricultural losses since 2011.<\/p><\/blockquote>

Here\u2019s the 2012 breakdown from the OSU researchers:<\/p>\n

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  • Crops (hay, alfalfa, soybeans, cotton and grain sorghum) \u2013 $239,299,520<\/li>\n
  • Livestock (lost pasture production, fewer winter stockers) \u2013 $157,109,000<\/li>\n
  • Wildfire property loss \u2013 $27,299,000<\/li>\n
  • Municipalities \u2013 $2,418,000<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>

    On paper, the drought\u2019s effects appear worse in 2011 than in 2012, but researcher Dave Sheideler says the numbers don\u2019t \u201cnecessarily speak to the severity of the drought.\u201d<\/p>\n

    The biggest difference from last year to this year was the historically high rate of herd liquidation in 2011.<\/p>

    Also, moisture from winter weather resulted in good pasture land that cut down on the need for supplemental feed because of smaller herds.<\/p>

    A third factor came in the timing of a flash drought, a heightened drought over a short period of time, that hit Oklahoma in June and July, giving producers the chance to haul in strong wheat and early spring soybean harvests.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Researchers at Oklahoma State University have been analyzing the ongoing drought and estimating the state’s tab of overall\u00a0economic losses.The financial impact from drought-related crop and livestock losses, wildfire damage and other municipal costs totaled more than $426 million in 2012, researchers found: Combined with last year\u2019s $1.6 billion setback, the state has suffered more than […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":11716,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[313,423],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11713"}],"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=11713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11720,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11713\/revisions\/11720"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}