{"id":15271,"date":"2018-08-09T22:58:46","date_gmt":"2018-08-10T02:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=15271"},"modified":"2019-01-10T16:20:50","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T21:20:50","slug":"drought-in-the-southwest-causes-problems-for-livestock-producers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2018\/08\/drought-in-the-southwest-causes-problems-for-livestock-producers\/","title":{"rendered":"Drought in the Southwest causes problems for livestock producers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While here in the Southeast we&#8217;ve had plenty of rain this year, out west is a different story. The drought in Texas and the Southwest has caused a lot of problems for livestock producers, including water supplies drying up and lack of food. You can read more about the impacts of the drought in <em>Drovers&#8217; Newsletter<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drovers.com\/article\/drought-puts-livestock-owners-pinch?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTlRJMk9ESmhNV1prTXpGaiIsInQiOiJOcTBwOXJsVGlqZGZMQ2toODVzYmxEanRZaUQ4b09oQ2pwdWNCMVM2Qkt0bG1OZytkREtSR1dvR1ZcL1NoNUNENFJSYUhlbTJVMHk0U25FOXRzbFpINXBoSXdwOXh5TmpueWZ4cHczNHVSN2phRzVnUFRNVkNvZDZXZ2F5eGhpYVEifQ%3D%3D\">here<\/a>. The same newsletter also offered an article about how some farmers are improving their water supply. You can read it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drovers.com\/article\/creative-thinking-leads-innovative-cattle-watering-system?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTlRJMk9ESmhNV1prTXpGaiIsInQiOiJOcTBwOXJsVGlqZGZMQ2toODVzYmxEanRZaUQ4b09oQ2pwdWNCMVM2Qkt0bG1OZytkREtSR1dvR1ZcL1NoNUNENFJSYUhlbTJVMHk0U25FOXRzbFpINXBoSXdwOXh5TmpueWZ4cHczNHVSN2phRzVnUFRNVkNvZDZXZ2F5eGhpYVEifQ%3D%3D\">here<\/a>.<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While here in the Southeast we&#8217;ve had plenty of rain this year, out west is a different story. The drought in Texas and the Southwest has caused a lot of problems for livestock producers, including water supplies drying up and lack of food. You can read more about the impacts of the drought in Drovers&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":5172,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15271","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\/15271","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\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15271"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16384,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15271\/revisions\/16384"}],"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=15271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}