{"id":80910,"date":"2014-09-22T16:58:03","date_gmt":"2014-09-22T07:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=54552"},"modified":"2016-04-01T02:48:49","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T17:48:49","slug":"goats-replace-grass-cutters-in-oita","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/goats-replace-grass-cutters-in-oita\/","title":{"rendered":"Goats Replace Grass Cutters In Oita"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crane Yufuin, a horseback riding club in Yufu City, Oita Prefecture has ditched their power grass cutters for eco-smart goats to trim their fields. The switch has saved the club considerable money and the noise from the mechanical weed cutters no longer startles the horses. The shift to goat power began five years ago with \u201cOtousan\u201d (\u201cfather\u201d in Japanese) and his wife \u201cMerry\u201d. Two years ago, their daughter \u201cKomerry\u201d was born, and now the three of them happily eat grass from morning to sunset. Sometimes they raise their heads to cry out \u201cUmeeeeee!\u201d (delicious!) to visitors. (Photo: is of another goat which appeared on the cover of Fukuoka Now magazine in May, 2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/issuu.com\/fukuokanow\/docs\/fn185-web\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/issuu.com\/fukuokanow\/docs\/fn185-web<\/a>) Source: Nishinippon Shimbun 9\/19<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/fn185-in-fukuoka-silvio-037.jpg?resize=640%2C480\" alt=\"fn185 in fukuoka silvio 037\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-54553\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/fn185-in-fukuoka-silvio-037.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/fn185-in-fukuoka-silvio-037.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Yufu City, in the Oita Prefecture, there is a horse riding club called \u201cCrane Yufuin\u201d where a goat family performs the weeding of a two hectares field<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6391,"featured_media":54553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-80910","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-category-environment","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/80910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6391"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80910"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}