{"id":2465,"date":"2015-03-30T07:50:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T11:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=2465"},"modified":"2015-03-30T07:50:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T11:50:00","slug":"the-heat-is-on-for-california-dairies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2015\/03\/the-heat-is-on-for-california-dairies\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The heat is on for California dairies&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>AgWeb<\/em> posted an article this week on the impacts of the continuing California drought on dairies in the region. \u00a0Competition for scarce water has led to fallowed crops and higher costs for irrigation. \u00a0A\u00a0shift to permanent crops like nut trees has also removed acreage once used to produce feed for dairy cattle. \u00a0Dropping milk prices have also changed the economic equations for farmers in the area. \u00a0You can read the article <a title=\"Heat on for CA dairy\" href=\"https:\/\/www.agweb.com\/article\/the-heat-is-on-for-california-dairies-NAA-catherine-merlo\/?smartid=ZZZZZZTZ12Z2221Z2ZZZZZZZZ2ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ&amp;spMailingID=48308246&amp;spUserID=ODQxODg4MTEwMDgS1&amp;spJobID=643300786&amp;spReportId=NjQzMzAwNzg2S0\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1896\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1896\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/01\/cows-on-pasture-ars-k7686-7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1896\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/01\/cows-on-pasture-ars-k7686-7-300x186.jpg\" alt=\"Source: USDA ARS\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"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, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/01\/cows-on-pasture-ars-k7686-7.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1896\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: USDA ARS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AgWeb posted an article this week on the impacts of the continuing California drought on dairies in the region. \u00a0Competition for scarce water has led to fallowed crops and higher costs for irrigation. \u00a0A\u00a0shift to permanent crops like nut trees has also removed acreage once used to produce feed for dairy cattle. \u00a0Dropping milk prices [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":1896,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2465","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\/2465","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=2465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2466,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2465\/revisions\/2466"}],"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=2465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}