{"id":3736,"date":"2015-07-06T13:17:11","date_gmt":"2015-07-06T17:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=3736"},"modified":"2015-07-06T13:17:11","modified_gmt":"2015-07-06T17:17:11","slug":"keeping-the-cows-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2015\/07\/keeping-the-cows-cool\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping the cows cool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The heat this summer has been intense in some places. \u00a0Farmers know that too much heat makes dairy cattle produce less milk and cut into profits. \u00a0<em>Modern Farmer<\/em> published a short article describing one Wisconsin farmer&#8217;s innovative way of keeping his cows cool and happy. \u00a0You can read the article <a href=\"https:\/\/modernfarmer.com\/2015\/07\/throwing-shade\/?utm_source=Modern+Farmer+Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=821f45ee06-Weekly_11_1511_15_2013&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_e8a89c7e43-821f45ee06-75518621&amp;mc_cid=821f45ee06&amp;mc_eid=cd66672ffe\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/shadehaven.net\/\">Shade Haven<\/a>\u00a0looks like a large, chic, black umbrella. It takes about five minutes to set up and can be pulled behind a truck, car or horse. New designs can be ordered with a fly-control system, weather stations and a remote opening and closing option to quickly shutter the shade in high winds.<\/p>\n<p>This shade device has more uses than just as a cattle-cooler. \u00a0It could also be set up in fields for workers, reducing heat fatigue by shading them from the hot sun.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3737\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3737\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/07\/throwingshade_hero.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3737\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/07\/throwingshade_hero-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"Source: Modern Farmer\/Shade Haven.\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/07\/throwingshade_hero-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/07\/throwingshade_hero.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/07\/throwingshade_hero-206x138.jpg 206w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3737\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Modern Farmer\/Shade Haven.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The heat this summer has been intense in some places. \u00a0Farmers know that too much heat makes dairy cattle produce less milk and cut into profits. \u00a0Modern Farmer published a short article describing one Wisconsin farmer&#8217;s innovative way of keeping his cows cool and happy. \u00a0You can read the article here. The Shade Haven\u00a0looks like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":3737,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3736","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\/3736","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=3736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3738,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3736\/revisions\/3738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}