{"id":7660,"date":"2016-07-17T16:36:13","date_gmt":"2016-07-17T20:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=7660"},"modified":"2016-07-17T16:36:44","modified_gmt":"2016-07-17T20:36:44","slug":"cattle-feed-and-climate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/07\/cattle-feed-and-climate\/","title":{"rendered":"Cattle feed and weather and climate impacts"},"content":{"rendered":"

I ran across a couple of articles this week describing the impacts of climate on cattle feed which you might find interesting.<\/p>\n

Growing Georgia<\/em> published an article<\/a> from Clint Thompson at UGA discussing the benefits of using forage sorghum instead of corn in areas that have water deficits. \u00a0Sorghum uses less water and can be harvested twice in southern parts of Georgia, according to the report. \u00a0And dairy cattle seem to do just as well on sorghum as they do on corn while being economically more viable. \u00a0This might be especially important in the next year or two since the developing La Ni\u00f1a could produce dry conditions next spring which could last through the 2017 growing season.<\/p>\n

AgWeb<\/em> published an article<\/a> about the impacts of “windrow disease” in alfalfa and how best to manage harvesting fields which have been affected by it. \u00a0Bruce Anderson, Nebraska Extension Forage Specialist, describes “windrow disease” thus: \u00a0“Windrow disease \u2014 that\u2019s the name I give to the striped appearance in fields where alfalfa windrows remained so long that regrowth was delayed. Usually it\u2019s due to rained on hay and sometimes, insects.” \u00a0The way to manage it depends on what is going to be eating the forage, since dairy cattle require richer hay than beef cattle, according to the article.<\/p>\n

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I ran across a couple of articles this week describing the impacts of climate on cattle feed which you might find interesting. Growing Georgia published an article from Clint Thompson at UGA discussing the benefits of using forage sorghum instead of corn in areas that have water deficits. \u00a0Sorghum uses less water and can be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":4639,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7660","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\/7660","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=7660"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7662,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7660\/revisions\/7662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}