{"id":24889,"date":"2022-11-04T21:38:09","date_gmt":"2022-11-05T01:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=24889"},"modified":"2022-11-04T21:38:11","modified_gmt":"2022-11-05T01:38:11","slug":"drought-conditions-push-the-limits-for-cattleman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2022\/11\/drought-conditions-push-the-limits-for-cattleman\/","title":{"rendered":"Drought conditions push the limits for cattleman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve been getting quite a few phone calls from Georgia cattle producers noting the very dry conditions have made feeding cattle very difficult right now, with no relief in sight, and some farmers having to cull their cattle because of the lack of feed. Here is a similar story from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mypanhandle.com\/news\/local-news\/jackson-county\/drought-conditions-push-the-limits-for-cattleman\/\">MyPanhandle.com<\/a> about cattlefolk down in the Florida Panhandle, which has also suffered from severe drought and the related lack of pastures and forage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><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\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/11\/Cattle_in_Dry_Pasture_-_geograph.org_.uk_-_216202.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/11\/Cattle_in_Dry_Pasture_-_geograph.org_.uk_-_216202.jpg 640w, 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\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: Tony Atkin, Commons WIkimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been getting quite a few phone calls from Georgia cattle producers noting the very dry conditions have made feeding cattle very difficult right now, with no relief in sight, and some farmers having to cull their cattle because of the lack of feed. Here is a similar story from MyPanhandle.com about cattlefolk down in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":5172,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24889","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\/24889","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=24889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24890,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24889\/revisions\/24890"}],"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=24889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}