{"id":9829,"date":"2017-01-24T00:07:25","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T05:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=9829"},"modified":"2017-01-24T00:07:36","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T05:07:36","slug":"cows-eating-candy-u-s-cattle-eat-the-oddest-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/01\/cows-eating-candy-u-s-cattle-eat-the-oddest-things\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Cows Eating Candy: U.S. Cattle Eat the Oddest Things&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When farmers are looking for feed for their cattle due to drought or other shortages, they use a variety of products to supplement their feed. \u00a0I was interested to read this story about a spilled truck full of red Skittles that was on its way to be ground up and used as a cattle feed supplement. \u00a0The story in <em>Growing Georgia<\/em> noted that &#8220;the practice of feeding unusual ingredients to cows to light in a big way in 2012 when severe droughts caused feed prices to skyrocket.&#8221; \u00a0 You can read more about this at <em>Growing Georgia<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/growinggeorgia.com\/features\/2017\/01\/cows-eating-candy-us-cattle-eat-oddest-things\/?utm_source=Growing+Georgia&amp;utm_campaign=40b24e0f82-growinggeorgia-daily_newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_4643f190f7-40b24e0f82-296638373\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1525\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1525\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/12\/nz-dairy-cow.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1525\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/12\/nz-dairy-cow-300x236.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/12\/nz-dairy-cow-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/12\/nz-dairy-cow-174x138.jpg 174w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/12\/nz-dairy-cow.jpg 608w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1525\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Commons WIkimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When farmers are looking for feed for their cattle due to drought or other shortages, they use a variety of products to supplement their feed. \u00a0I was interested to read this story about a spilled truck full of red Skittles that was on its way to be ground up and used as a cattle feed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":1525,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-drought","category-livestock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9829","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=9829"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9831,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9829\/revisions\/9831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}