{"id":977,"date":"2014-10-02T15:54:22","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T19:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=977"},"modified":"2021-10-18T11:17:04","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T15:17:04","slug":"the-south-dakota-blizzard-one-year-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2014\/10\/the-south-dakota-blizzard-one-year-later\/","title":{"rendered":"The South Dakota blizzard one year later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year at this time, an unexpected early season blizzard in South Dakota killed over 40,000 head of cattle.\u00a0 Many ranchers were caught unprepared by the unseasonable weather and had not moved their cattle to their winter pastures yet, which increased the losses.\u00a0 Cattle were also still in summer coats and were soaked by the rain and snow, which increased mortality.\u00a0 Farmers had to deal with the impacts of many carcasses as well as the loss of stock.\u00a0 Today <em>AgWeb<\/em> provided a retrospective on the storm and its lingering impacts on herd size.\u00a0 You can read the story by clicking <a title=\"AgWeb story on SD blizzard\" href=\"https:\/\/www.agweb.com\/article\/ranchers_still_rebuilding_after_last_years_blizzard_NAA_Betsy_Jibben\/?smartid=&amp;spMailingID=47107441&amp;spUserID=ODQxODg4MTEwMDgS1&amp;spJobID=540270661&amp;spReportId=NTQwMjcwNjYxS0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists at South Dakota State University extension studied the storm and concluded that the blizzard could not be attributed to climate change., but were in the range of expected variability.\u00a0 Visit <a title=\"SD blizzard not climate change\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2014\/09\/140929174441.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Science Daily<\/a> for the story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year at this time, an unexpected early season blizzard in South Dakota killed over 40,000 head of cattle.\u00a0 Many ranchers were caught unprepared by the unseasonable weather and had not moved their cattle to their winter pastures yet, which increased the losses.\u00a0 Cattle were also still in summer coats and were soaked by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-extension-agent-outreach","category-livestock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977","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=977"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22862,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977\/revisions\/22862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}