{"id":7707,"date":"2016-07-21T22:33:24","date_gmt":"2016-07-22T02:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=7707"},"modified":"2016-07-21T22:33:24","modified_gmt":"2016-07-22T02:33:24","slug":"nitrate-toxicity-during-drought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/07\/nitrate-toxicity-during-drought\/","title":{"rendered":"Nitrate toxicity during drought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Southeast Farm Press<\/em> posted an important article today from Alabama Extension about the impacts of drought on nitrate levels in forages. \u00a0According to the article, &#8220;nitrates can accumulate in forages when plants are stressed by low soil moisture, high temperatures or low humidity&#8221;. \u00a0At high levels, these forages can poison the cattle that feed on them. \u00a0The article stresses the importance of testing your forages for nitrate levels to make sure that the levels will not harm cattle. \u00a0You can read the article, which lists 9 points to remember about nitrate toxicity in the Southeast, <a href=\"https:\/\/southeastfarmpress.com\/livestock\/do-you-know-these-9-things-about-nitrate-toxicity-during-drought?NL=SEFP-01&amp;Issue=SEFP-01_20160721_SEFP-01_264&amp;sfvc4enews=42&amp;cl=article_2_b&amp;utm_rid=CPG02000001384126&amp;utm_campaign=10681&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;elq2=31dea748d7ba4321ab0d0a60e6b18b34\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5172\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5172\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/11\/Cattle_in_Dry_Pasture_-_geograph.org_.uk_-_216202.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5172\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/11\/Cattle_in_Dry_Pasture_-_geograph.org_.uk_-_216202-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Source: Tony Atkin, Commons WIkimedia\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/11\/Cattle_in_Dry_Pasture_-_geograph.org_.uk_-_216202-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/11\/Cattle_in_Dry_Pasture_-_geograph.org_.uk_-_216202-207x138.jpg 207w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/11\/Cattle_in_Dry_Pasture_-_geograph.org_.uk_-_216202.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5172\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Tony Atkin, Commons WIkimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southeast Farm Press posted an important article today from Alabama Extension about the impacts of drought on nitrate levels in forages. \u00a0According to the article, &#8220;nitrates can accumulate in forages when plants are stressed by low soil moisture, high temperatures or low humidity&#8221;. \u00a0At high levels, these forages can poison the cattle that feed on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":5172,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drought","category-livestock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7707","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=7707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7708,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7707\/revisions\/7708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}