{"id":12665,"date":"2014-08-07T08:00:22","date_gmt":"2014-08-07T12:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/?p=12665"},"modified":"2014-08-06T17:30:33","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T21:30:33","slug":"farmer-wakes-up-his-cows-with-lordes-royals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/farmer-wakes-up-his-cows-with-lordes-royals\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmer Wakes Up His Cows with Lorde&#8217;s &#8220;Royals&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What better way to wake up cows in the early morning than with a smooth trombone cover of a catchy pop song? Farmer Derek Klingenberg, who is also a musician, found an easy and fun way to round up his herd of 380 heifers: by playing Lorde&#8217;s hit song, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nlcIKh6sBtc\" target=\"_blank\">Royals<\/a>.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qs_-emj1qR4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Kligenberg,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2715867\/The-Pied-Piper-Kansas-Trombone-playing-farmer-lures-cattle-upbeat-tunes-proves-bovines-love-Lorde.html\" target=\"_blank\"> who operates Kligenberg Farms Studios in Kansas, <\/a>regularly uploads YouTube videos of his early morning serenades. Other covers include a poppy version of &#8220;Old MacDonald&#8221; and a parody of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jofNR_WkoCE\" target=\"_blank\">What Does the Fox Say?<\/a>&#8221; by Ylvis.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #222222;\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve been going out there the past week to &#8220;cube&#8221; the cattle. We feed them a treat so it is easier to gather them when we round them up later this week,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/cows-love-this-farmers-trombone-cover-of-lordes-royals-1616309830\" target=\"_blank\">Kligenberg wrote on his Facebook page, <\/a>&#8220;<\/span><span style=\"color: #222222;\">Yesterday morning was so beautiful. I left very early in the morning. There is something wonderful about playing a trombone in the middle of a prairie to 380 heifers.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Though Kligenberg may be playing music for his own amusement, cows actually find music relaxing, and have been proven to produce more milk&nbsp;when they hear certain music.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/toknowinfo.hubpages.com\/hub\/How-Music-Affect-People-and-Animals\" target=\"_blank\">Researchers at the&nbsp;Music Research Group at the University of Leicester School of Psychology<\/a>&nbsp;found&nbsp;that playing classical music can cause cows to produce a little more than an extra pint of milk. After testing their theory on 1,000 cows, the researchers found that Beethoven&#8217;s &#8220;Pastoral Symphony&#8221; and Simon &amp; Garfunkel&#8217;s &#8220;Bridge Over Troubled Water&#8221; were particularly&nbsp;effective songs for increasing milk production. Maybe&nbsp;Kligenberg should play those next.<\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: YouTube<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What better way to wake up cows in the early morning than with a smooth trombone cover of a catchy pop song?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":12674,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"coauthors":[610],"class_list":["post-12665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cheese-bites"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.4 (Yoast SEO v24.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Farmer Wakes Up His Cows with Lorde&#039;s &quot;Royals&quot;  - culture: the word on cheese<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"What better way to wake up cows in the early morning than with a smooth trombone cover of a catchy pop song?\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/farmer-wakes-up-his-cows-with-lordes-royals\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Farmer Wakes Up His Cows with Lorde&#039;s &quot;Royals&quot;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"What better way to wake up cows in the early morning than with a smooth trombone cover of a catchy pop song?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/farmer-wakes-up-his-cows-with-lordes-royals\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"culture: the word on cheese\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-08-07T12:00:22+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/article-2715867-203F524100000578-969_634x349.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"750\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"368\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Erica Mixon\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Erica Mixon\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/farmer-wakes-up-his-cows-with-lordes-royals\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/farmer-wakes-up-his-cows-with-lordes-royals\/\",\"name\":\"Farmer Wakes Up His Cows with Lorde's \\\"Royals\\\" - 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