{"id":8689,"date":"2016-10-12T23:08:55","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T03:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=8689"},"modified":"2016-10-12T23:08:55","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T03:08:55","slug":"matthews-impacts-on-livestock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/10\/matthews-impacts-on-livestock\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew&#8217;s impacts on livestock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All of the flooding that is underway in North Carolina following the passage of Hurricane Matthew has caused tremendous problems for livestock producers. \u00a0The <em>Washington Post<\/em> noted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/animalia\/wp\/2016\/10\/11\/flooded-north-carolina-farms-are-likely-littered-with-drowned-livestock\/?postshare=4451476284099720&amp;tid=ss_fb\">here<\/a> that &#8220;At least tens of thousands\u00a0of chickens, hogs and other livestock are feared dead in floodwaters that washed over factory farms and towns in eastern North Carolina following Hurricane Matthew.&#8221; \u00a0The story also noted that NC&#8217;s Gov. Pat McCrory (R) said &#8220;officials would work to quickly dispose of decaying animal carcasses that could contaminate waters and pose a potential public health threat. The state wants to avoid a repeat of the problems that followed Hurricane Floyd in 1999, when hundreds of bloated hog and chicken carcasses floated for days\u00a0in floodwaters.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Another issue that could affect water conditions is the potential for overflow of manure from lagoons near large hog farm operations. \u00a0<em>ThinkProgress<\/em> describes the environmental consequences of such leaks <a href=\"https:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/hurricane-matthew-flooding-climate-change-fb980c7c453a#.c2lhu3as2\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8690\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8690\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/10\/hog-farms-flooded-in-nc.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8690\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/10\/hog-farms-flooded-in-nc-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"Source: Rick Dove, Waterkeeper Alliance\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/10\/hog-farms-flooded-in-nc-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/10\/hog-farms-flooded-in-nc-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/10\/hog-farms-flooded-in-nc.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/10\/hog-farms-flooded-in-nc-207x138.jpeg 207w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8690\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Rick Dove, Waterkeeper Alliance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All of the flooding that is underway in North Carolina following the passage of Hurricane Matthew has caused tremendous problems for livestock producers. \u00a0The Washington Post noted here that &#8220;At least tens of thousands\u00a0of chickens, hogs and other livestock are feared dead in floodwaters that washed over factory farms and towns in eastern North Carolina [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":8690,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-livestock","category-tropical-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8689","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=8689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8691,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8689\/revisions\/8691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}