{"id":5859,"date":"2016-01-25T21:16:23","date_gmt":"2016-01-26T02:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=5859"},"modified":"2016-01-25T21:22:50","modified_gmt":"2016-01-26T02:22:50","slug":"cattle-and-cover-crops-work-well-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/01\/cattle-and-cover-crops-work-well-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Cattle and cover crops work well together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cover crops are often used to help reduce erosion and keep moisture and nutrients in the soil. \u00a0But a recent\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.agweb.com\/article\/cattle-and-cover-crops-collaborate-to-improve-farm-fields-naa-wyatt-bechtel\/?mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRogvKTOZKXonjHpfsX%2F6uUpXaeg38431UFwdcjKPmjr1YsDSct0aPyQAgobGp5I5FEATrPYRadit6IEWA%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> in <em>AgWeb<\/em> points out that they also work well as forage for cattle. \u00a0A variety of choices of cover crop can be used, and the article describes some of the advantages and disadvantages of each one.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5864\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5864\" style=\"width: 252px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/01\/cow-calf-and-cover-crop.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5864\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5864\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/01\/cow-calf-and-cover-crop.jpg\" alt=\"Source: USDA ARS\" width=\"252\" height=\"155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/01\/cow-calf-and-cover-crop.jpg 252w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/01\/cow-calf-and-cover-crop-224x138.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 252px) 100vw, 252px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5864\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: USDA ARS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cover crops are often used to help reduce erosion and keep moisture and nutrients in the soil. \u00a0But a recent\u00a0article in AgWeb points out that they also work well as forage for cattle. \u00a0A variety of choices of cover crop can be used, and the article describes some of the advantages and disadvantages of each [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":5864,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5859","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\/5859","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=5859"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5865,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5859\/revisions\/5865"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}