{"id":15160,"date":"2018-08-03T22:46:57","date_gmt":"2018-08-04T02:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=15160"},"modified":"2018-08-03T22:47:26","modified_gmt":"2018-08-04T02:47:26","slug":"how-does-rain-affect-hay-quality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2018\/08\/how-does-rain-affect-hay-quality\/","title":{"rendered":"How does rain affect hay quality?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With all the rain we have been having this summer, I have gotten numerous reports about farmers having trouble finding windows of time for their hay to dry. Kim Mullenix from Auburn University wrote a helpful article in <em>Dairy Herd Management<\/em> explaining how rain affects hay quality over time. You can read it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dairyherd.com\/article\/how-does-rain-impact-hay-quality?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTW1KbVlUTmxOVFppWldRNCIsInQiOiJ6YkNNSHpoc0tFbGt3NUFqQk5LQ1VGeDFrNVRmdnAzYTJYQzFOT2VsSVpVR0M1bCtEeG90TXh6SllXRzJoMkNoVHBSbEsxM2Fwd3JrSjdVSHhITXdmMmU5KzZrNHRJK0x4ak5cL3NiK3BsUXp6a3V6b3N5SnRldWlQZWwxNzdCcGEifQ%3D%3D\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5287\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5287\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/11\/Foggy_hay_bales_-_geograph.org_.uk_-_603115.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5287\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/11\/Foggy_hay_bales_-_geograph.org_.uk_-_603115-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/11\/Foggy_hay_bales_-_geograph.org_.uk_-_603115-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/11\/Foggy_hay_bales_-_geograph.org_.uk_-_603115-184x138.jpg 184w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/11\/Foggy_hay_bales_-_geograph.org_.uk_-_603115.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5287\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: A. Holmes, Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With all the rain we have been having this summer, I have gotten numerous reports about farmers having trouble finding windows of time for their hay to dry. Kim Mullenix from Auburn University wrote a helpful article in Dairy Herd Management explaining how rain affects hay quality over time. You can read it here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":5287,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crops","category-livestock","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15160","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=15160"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15203,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15160\/revisions\/15203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}