{"id":16022,"date":"2018-11-06T21:06:10","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T02:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=16022"},"modified":"2018-11-06T21:06:10","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T02:06:10","slug":"southeast-farm-press-georgia-alfalfa-is-best-in-southeast-for-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2018\/11\/southeast-farm-press-georgia-alfalfa-is-best-in-southeast-for-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Southeast Farm Press: Georgia alfalfa is best in Southeast for 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s Southeastern Hay Contest winner is from Flatwoods Farms in Murrayville, Georgia, as announced at the Sunbelt Ag Expo on October 16. The hay sample they provided to the contest was one of the highest scored since the contest began 14 years ago, according to Brad Haire in the <em>Southeast Farm Press<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southeastfarmpress.com\/livestock\/georgia-alfalfa-best-southeast-2018?NL=SEFP-01&amp;Issue=SEFP-01_20181106_SEFP-01_881&amp;sfvc4enews=42&amp;cl=article_1_b&amp;utm_rid=CPG02000002518665&amp;utm_campaign=32988&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;elq2=b0a78e91bf664c529e25682c5c6d7dc9\">here<\/a>. This in spite of weather challenges like wet weather in the first 2\/3 of the growing season followed by drought stress in September.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7179\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7179\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/05\/Alfalfa_round_bales.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7179\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/05\/Alfalfa_round_bales-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/05\/Alfalfa_round_bales-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/05\/Alfalfa_round_bales-208x138.jpg 208w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/05\/Alfalfa_round_bales.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7179\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Gary D. Robson, Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s Southeastern Hay Contest winner is from Flatwoods Farms in Murrayville, Georgia, as announced at the Sunbelt Ag Expo on October 16. The hay sample they provided to the contest was one of the highest scored since the contest began 14 years ago, according to Brad Haire in the Southeast Farm Press here. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":7179,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-livestock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16022","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=16022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16023,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16022\/revisions\/16023"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}