{"id":6085,"date":"2011-12-05T14:28:24","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T22:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofveterinarymedicine\/?p=6085"},"modified":"2011-12-07T08:05:07","modified_gmt":"2011-12-07T16:05:07","slug":"dairy-cows-are-athletes-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofveterinarymedicine\/2011\/12\/05\/dairy-cows-are-athletes-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Dairy Cows Are Athletes Too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6088\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofveterinarymedicine\/2011\/12\/05\/dairy-cows-are-athletes-too\/cow-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6088\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofveterinarymedicine\/files\/2011\/12\/cow1.jpg\" alt=\"cow on bicycle\" width=\"210\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/448\/files\/2011\/12\/cow1.jpg 210w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/448\/files\/2011\/12\/cow1-106x150.jpg 106w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a>It took a lot of high-tech research for Lance Armstrong to win the Tour de France seven times in a row. His team used wind tunnels, computer modeling, cutting-edge bike frame materials, and the latest in high-tech clothing to help him succeed.<\/p>\n<p>Technology and research are also a big part of the dairy herd at OSU. They may not look like lean, mean farm machines but Assistant Professor Aurora Villarroel considers these milk-producers high-performance athletes. She and Ben Krahn, Director of the Dairy Research Center, have set up a state-of-the-art dairy operation which uses the latest technology to keep the cows healthy and productive. The center also uses an automated system to collect detailed information about the cow&#8217;s daily lives. \u00a0 The information is stored in a massive database that can be used for research.<\/p>\n<p>Wired magazine recently featured a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/magazine\/2011\/11\/st_toolkit_dairy\/?pid=7550&amp;viewall=true\" target=\"_blank\">photo essay<\/a> on the OSU Dairy Research Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It took a lot of high-tech research for Lance Armstrong to win the Tour de France seven times in a row. His team used wind tunnels, computer modeling, cutting-edge bike frame materials, and the latest in high-tech clothing to help him succeed. Technology and research are also a big part of the dairy herd at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1802,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3054],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-and-staff"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3DBMX-1A9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofveterinarymedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofveterinarymedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofveterinarymedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofveterinarymedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1802"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofveterinarymedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6085"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofveterinarymedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6117,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofveterinarymedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6085\/revisions\/6117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofveterinarymedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofveterinarymedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofveterinarymedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}