{"id":200,"date":"2019-01-02T15:44:12","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T20:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/turnerab\/?p=200"},"modified":"2019-01-02T15:44:12","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T20:44:12","slug":"cattle-and-forage-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/turnerab\/2019\/01\/cattle-and-forage-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Cattle and Forage Concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we welcome on the new year, I reflect to a year ago when I was glad to see the 2017 season\u00a0disappear and start with 2018 because there was no way in my mind it could have gotten worse than 2017. Well, I guess I was wrong. To make matters worse we are now facing poor grazing due to extended periods of rainy weather that has delayed establishment, stunted root growth from saturated soils, and\/or induced significant leaching. Many of you were considering whether or not to apply more fertilizer or to spend money on feed. I addressed this issue individually with a lot of you. Now that a lot of you are supplementing hay with cottonseed, I thought I would provide a little bit of direction with this comment from Dr. Jacob Segers, UGA beef cattle nutritionist.<strong> &#8220;<span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">I tell them to try not to exceed 0.5% of body weight per day.\u00a0 For a 1200-lb cow, that\u2019s about 6 pounds. &#8220;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For more information on Forages, check out the UGA Forage Team letter, which contains some very good information.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/turnerab\/files\/2019\/01\/Forage-letter-Dec-2018.pdf\">Forage letter Dec 2018<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we welcome on the new year, I reflect to a year ago when I was glad to see the 2017 season\u00a0disappear and start with 2018 because there was no way in my mind it could have gotten worse than 2017. Well, I guess I was wrong. To make matters worse we are now facing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":231,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/turnerab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/turnerab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/turnerab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/turnerab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/231"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/turnerab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/turnerab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/turnerab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions\/202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/turnerab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/turnerab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/turnerab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}