{"id":19734,"date":"2020-06-24T14:45:40","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T18:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=19734"},"modified":"2020-06-24T14:45:43","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T18:45:43","slug":"drovers-newsletter-preparing-for-summer-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2020\/06\/drovers-newsletter-preparing-for-summer-heat\/","title":{"rendered":"Drovers Newsletter: Preparing for Summer Heat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Southeast is no stranger to hot summers, and livestock producers already have management plans in place to keep their animals safe during the hottest periods. This year it&#8217;s especially important to watch heat stress carefully, since many producers are holding off selling their cattle to see if the market improves, so keeping their full-size cattle comfortable is especially important. <em>Drovers Newsletter<\/em> provide some useful tips on what to do to keep heat stress on livestock to a minimum. You can read it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drovers.com\/article\/preparing-summer-heat?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTmpVM05HSmhORGt4TmpFNSIsInQiOiJZbzVWcmVPWU90WWJsY0lyVTE1ckVPM3o5MWwzbWZ6RHQzSW91YVlKNFo2UDhtTTNrblkzVDY5dkVVQVpuRkZabEJCakpvZDFoMVh5TWQyNGszenBQQURBRVk4a2hCTVNnUWxsN3duXC9hRlNCTXhcL01IYkVzU1ZiK2N0XC9jOGpTaCJ9\">her<\/a>e. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"396\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/01\/cows-on-pasture-ars-k7686-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1896\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/01\/cows-on-pasture-ars-k7686-7.jpg 640w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/01\/cows-on-pasture-ars-k7686-7-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/01\/cows-on-pasture-ars-k7686-7-223x138.jpg 223w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption>Source: USDA ARS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Southeast is no stranger to hot summers, and livestock producers already have management plans in place to keep their animals safe during the hottest periods. This year it&#8217;s especially important to watch heat stress carefully, since many producers are holding off selling their cattle to see if the market improves, so keeping their full-size [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":1896,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19734","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\/19734","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=19734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19735,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19734\/revisions\/19735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}