{"id":5834,"date":"2016-01-23T14:18:14","date_gmt":"2016-01-23T19:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=5834"},"modified":"2016-01-23T14:19:20","modified_gmt":"2016-01-23T19:19:20","slug":"digesters-reduce-methane-and-improve-energy-usage-on-dairy-farms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/01\/digesters-reduce-methane-and-improve-energy-usage-on-dairy-farms\/","title":{"rendered":"Digesters reduce methane and improve energy usage on dairy farms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Modesto Bee<\/em> published the results of a <a href=\"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/?p=10055&amp;utm_source=Climate+Hub+Bulletin&amp;utm_campaign=b629e3850c-January_Bulletin_2016&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_ec7f833a04-b629e3850c-239891949\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a> this week on the advantages of digesters for dairy waste, as reported by the California Department of Food and Agriculture. \u00a0Digesters use bacteria to break down animal waste and use it to produce energy while eliminating emissions of methane from the waste. \u00a0This reduces carbon emission to the atmosphere and also reduces the need for energy input, which benefits the farmer through reduced utility costs.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a link to the original article: \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.modbee.com\/news\/business\/agriculture\/article52663195.html\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.modbee.com\/news\/business\/agriculture\/article52663195.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/01\/Cows-at-Fiscalini-Farm.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5835\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5835\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/01\/Cows-at-Fiscalini-Farm-300x236.jpg\" alt=\"Cows-at-Fiscalini-Farm\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/01\/Cows-at-Fiscalini-Farm-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/01\/Cows-at-Fiscalini-Farm-176x138.jpg 176w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/01\/Cows-at-Fiscalini-Farm.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Modesto Bee published the results of a study this week on the advantages of digesters for dairy waste, as reported by the California Department of Food and Agriculture. \u00a0Digesters use bacteria to break down animal waste and use it to produce energy while eliminating emissions of methane from the waste. \u00a0This reduces carbon emission [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":5835,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-livestock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5834","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\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5834"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5837,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5834\/revisions\/5837"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}