{"id":10082,"date":"2017-02-15T13:39:44","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T18:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=10082"},"modified":"2017-02-15T13:40:56","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T18:40:56","slug":"livestock-prepare-for-drought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/02\/livestock-prepare-for-drought\/","title":{"rendered":"Livestock producers prepare for drought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Drovers Newsletter<\/em> had a really interesting article this week on one livestock producer&#8217;s methods for getting ready to deal with drought.\u00a0 You can find it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cattlenetwork.com\/advice-and-tips\/beat-odds-drought?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTVRFelpERmpPVEUzTVRjeCIsInQiOiJHbTVjbzdrTkZDSWY1dFZ6bVRnVFwvNXo2aUpNTGRheWk1UEFvNnk4VVNQeFE5UHprZEtWbjZuT29SWTVFbWVqQTMyUzNORFwvbFNPOE1jcmlGSFBJRDJ0YkdnYmUrYkpxcld4ZXptZVJ0UlwvRGJvZUVvdjFhNEJsc1FlUGMyWVBpNiJ9\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 Some of his adaptation methods include having at least a year&#8217;s worth of food onsite and keeping cows that could be easily culled in a separate herd so you can move them out quickly.\u00a0 He also uses a series of &#8220;trigger&#8221; dates to determine what steps he should be taking to manage his herd.\u00a0 Dealing with drought, as with dealing with severe weather events like heat waves, floods and high winds, is best done far ahead of the actual event when you have time to think and put appropriate measures in place.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5172\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5172\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/11\/Cattle_in_Dry_Pasture_-_geograph.org_.uk_-_216202.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5172\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/11\/Cattle_in_Dry_Pasture_-_geograph.org_.uk_-_216202-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/11\/Cattle_in_Dry_Pasture_-_geograph.org_.uk_-_216202-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/11\/Cattle_in_Dry_Pasture_-_geograph.org_.uk_-_216202-207x138.jpg 207w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/11\/Cattle_in_Dry_Pasture_-_geograph.org_.uk_-_216202.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5172\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Tony Atkin, Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drovers Newsletter had a really interesting article this week on one livestock producer&#8217;s methods for getting ready to deal with drought.\u00a0 You can find it here.\u00a0 Some of his adaptation methods include having at least a year&#8217;s worth of food onsite and keeping cows that could be easily culled in a separate herd so you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":5172,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-drought","category-livestock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10082"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10084,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10082\/revisions\/10084"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}