{"id":9420,"date":"2016-12-09T21:53:19","date_gmt":"2016-12-10T02:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=9420"},"modified":"2016-12-09T21:53:19","modified_gmt":"2016-12-10T02:53:19","slug":"winter-brings-feed-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/12\/winter-brings-feed-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Winter Brings Feed Challenges&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even if we were not in a drought and having significant shortages of forage and hay, livestock producers would have to watch their animals carefully in the cold weather that is occurring this week and may continue into next week. \u00a0Wyatt Bechtel of <em>Drovers Magazine<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cattlenetwork.com\/magazine\/winter-brings-feed-challenges?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTmpReU9XTXhZVFprWWpsaiIsInQiOiJjTGJHN3NKVnl3NmNYQlwvVlVMbDduWlBuZ0Q0emVLd25GMUNWMzFTMmlSaXE4YU5LTWR0VHNVMjZEWldlK05tdDFzR3dvQ0JINThub1U3R05qZWN2S2owS3JtUExHVnMzdjArdmxZdkxMcVk9In0%3D\">here<\/a> describes the changes that producers may need to make to ensure that their cattle maintain their body condition over the next few months in preparation for calving. \u00a0He discusses the nutrient needs of the cattle as well as the economic costs of different feeding strategies.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5628\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5628\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/01\/Cold_cows_near_Tealing_-_geograph.org_.uk_-_1628959.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5628\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/01\/Cold_cows_near_Tealing_-_geograph.org_.uk_-_1628959-300x192.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/01\/Cold_cows_near_Tealing_-_geograph.org_.uk_-_1628959-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/01\/Cold_cows_near_Tealing_-_geograph.org_.uk_-_1628959-215x138.jpg 215w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/01\/Cold_cows_near_Tealing_-_geograph.org_.uk_-_1628959.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5628\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even if we were not in a drought and having significant shortages of forage and hay, livestock producers would have to watch their animals carefully in the cold weather that is occurring this week and may continue into next week. \u00a0Wyatt Bechtel of Drovers Magazine here describes the changes that producers may need to make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":5628,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-livestock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9420","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=9420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9421,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9420\/revisions\/9421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}