{"id":129,"date":"2019-06-25T20:23:46","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T20:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/david-farrell\/?p=129"},"modified":"2019-06-26T12:38:21","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T12:38:21","slug":"day-on-the-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/david-farrell\/2019\/06\/25\/day-on-the-farm\/","title":{"rendered":"Day on the farm."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tuesday the 25th of July I completed my first farm visit to a southeastern organic dairy farm in Tennessee. The objectives of the day were<br>1- Gather flies from the udder\/under belly and backs of cows<br>2- Measure, and evaluate different forages. <br>All flies and grass collected were placed in plastic bags and placed in freezers once back at the laboratory. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/david-farrell\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2019\/06\/20190625_080738-2-584x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-130\" width=\"189\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/david-farrell\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2019\/06\/20190625_080738-2-584x1024.jpg 584w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/david-farrell\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2019\/06\/20190625_080738-2-171x300.jpg 171w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/david-farrell\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2019\/06\/20190625_080738-2-768x1346.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/david-farrell\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2019\/06\/20190625_080738-2.jpg 1002w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 189px) 100vw, 189px\" \/><figcaption>Grass measuring using a rising plate meter. Moving across the field in an W or X shape I took 10-15 hits. I then subtracted my start figure from my final  figure and  divided that by a doubling the number of hits I took.<br>Forages was mostly composed of white\/red clover and tall fescue grass<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday the 25th of July I completed my first farm visit to a southeastern organic dairy farm in Tennessee. The objectives of the day were1- Gather flies from the udder\/under belly and backs of cows2- Measure, and evaluate different forages. All flies and grass collected were placed in plastic bags and placed in freezers once &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/david-farrell\/2019\/06\/25\/day-on-the-farm\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Day on the farm.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/david-farrell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/david-farrell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/david-farrell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/david-farrell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/david-farrell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/david-farrell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/david-farrell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions\/160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/david-farrell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/david-farrell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/david-farrell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}