{"id":247772,"date":"2024-03-27T08:45:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T08:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/this-grass-has-toxic-effects-on-us-livestock-and-its-spreading\/"},"modified":"2024-03-27T12:18:08","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T12:18:08","slug":"this-grass-has-toxic-effects-on-us-livestock-and-its-spreading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/this-grass-has-toxic-effects-on-us-livestock-and-its-spreading\/","title":{"rendered":"This grass has toxic effects on US livestock, and it&#8217;s spreading"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\n      <iframe style=\"margin: 0 auto 20px; width: 100%; height: 100px; border: none; display: none\" data-project-id=\"Yual8er4aaQbafhcldNK\" allowfullscreen=\"false\" allowtransparency=\"\" allow=\"clipboard-read; clipboard-write\" frameborder=\"0\" id=\"ad-auris-iframe\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-default-font-family\"><em>This story was produced in collaboration with the <\/em><em>Food &amp; Environment Reporting Network<\/em><em>, a nonprofit news organization.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap has-default-font-family\">America\u2019s \u201cfescue belt,\u201d named for an exotic grass called tall fescue, dominates the pastureland from Missouri and Arkansas in the west to the coast of the Carolinas in the east. Within that swath, a quarter of the nation\u2019s cows \u2014 more than 15 million in all \u2014 graze fields that stay green through the winter while the rest of the region\u2019s grasses turn brown and go dormant.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-default-font-family\">But the fescue these cows are eating is toxic. The animals lose hooves. Parts of their tails and the tips of their ears slough off. For most of the year, they spend any moderately warm day standing in ponds and creeks trying to reduce fevers. They breathe heavily, fail to put on weight, and produce less milk. Some fail to conceive, and some of the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/grist.org\/agriculture\/this-grass-has-toxic-effects-on-us-livestock-and-its-spreading-fescue\/\"target=\"_blank\">Read full article originally published on grist.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This story was produced in collaboration with the Food &amp; Environment Reporting Network, a nonprofit news organization. America\u2019s \u201cfescue belt,\u201d named for an exotic grass called tall fescue, dominates the pastureland from Missouri and Arkansas in the west to the coast of the Carolinas in the east. Within that swath, a quarter of the nation\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":247773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v20.0 (Yoast SEO v20.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>This grass has toxic effects on US livestock, and it&#039;s spreading - Republic of Green News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/grist.org\/agriculture\/this-grass-has-toxic-effects-on-us-livestock-and-its-spreading-fescue\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"This grass has toxic effects on US livestock, and it&#039;s spreading\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This story was produced in collaboration with the Food &amp; Environment Reporting Network, a nonprofit news organization. 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