{"id":29684,"date":"2026-02-09T22:20:01","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T03:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=29684"},"modified":"2026-02-09T22:20:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T03:20:45","slug":"cold-weather-effects-on-cool-season-forages-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2026\/02\/cold-weather-effects-on-cool-season-forages-in-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold-Weather Effects on Cool-Season Forages in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Forages this year have taken multiple hits from the weather, first with the fall drought, then the early freeze in mid-November, and then the cycles of warm and cold conditions that we have seen this winter. Many types of forage have been impacted by the cold weather in the past few weeks, leading to loss of the plant or at least killing off the top parts of the plants. You can get more information on how forage crops have been affected this year in the Southeast at <a href=\"https:\/\/nwdistrict.ifas.ufl.edu\/phag\/2026\/01\/30\/cold-weather-effects-on-cool-season-forages-in-2026\/\">https:\/\/nwdistrict.ifas.ufl.edu\/phag\/2026\/01\/30\/cold-weather-effects-on-cool-season-forages-in-2026\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/03\/snow-on-forage.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"673\" height=\"468\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/03\/snow-on-forage.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13911\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/03\/snow-on-forage.jpg 673w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/03\/snow-on-forage-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/03\/snow-on-forage-198x138.jpg 198w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 673px) 100vw, 673px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Early snow on forage crop. ( Photo courtesy of Pascal Drouin )<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forages this year have taken multiple hits from the weather, first with the fall drought, then the early freeze in mid-November, and then the cycles of warm and cold conditions that we have seen this winter. Many types of forage have been impacted by the cold weather in the past few weeks, leading to loss [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":13911,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-crops","category-livestock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29684","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=29684"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29686,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29684\/revisions\/29686"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}