{"id":25250,"date":"2023-01-15T23:26:17","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T04:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=25250"},"modified":"2023-01-15T23:26:22","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T04:26:22","slug":"christmas-freeze-affected-forage-across-the-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2023\/01\/christmas-freeze-affected-forage-across-the-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas freeze affected forage across the region"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>While the Christmas freeze is well in the past for most of us, some forage producers are still seeing the impacts affecting their fields. Here is some advice from UF\/IFAS on what happened and what to do if your forage was severely impacted by the frigid weather: <a href=\"https:\/\/nwdistrict.ifas.ufl.edu\/phag\/2023\/01\/13\/impacts-of-the-christmas-freeze-on-forages-what-happened-and-what-to-do-now\/\">Impacts of the Christmas Freeze on Forages \u2013 What Happened and What to Do Now<\/a>. A separate article discusses how you can choose appropriate forage blends to reduce damage from extreme weather in the future: <a href=\"https:\/\/nwdistrict.ifas.ufl.edu\/phag\/2023\/01\/13\/utilizing-winter-forage-blends-for-insurance-against-climate-chaos\/\">Utilizing Winter Forage Blends for Insurance Against Climate Chaos<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2023\/01\/image-4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"572\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2023\/01\/image-4.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2023\/01\/image-4.png 800w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2023\/01\/image-4-300x215.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2023\/01\/image-4-768x549.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Oats, Avena sativa (left), black oats Avena strigosa (center) and cereal rye (right) on 05 January 2023, following the December freeze event. Credit: Cheryl Mackowiak, UF\/IFAS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the Christmas freeze is well in the past for most of us, some forage producers are still seeing the impacts affecting their fields. Here is some advice from UF\/IFAS on what happened and what to do if your forage was severely impacted by the frigid weather: Impacts of the Christmas Freeze on Forages \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":25251,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-crops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25250","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=25250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25252,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25250\/revisions\/25252"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}