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With Pat Kunz at the helm, alongside his family, the farm has embraced soil health as the foundation for long-term success in their wheat, canola, barley, and pea rotation, as well as their cow-calf and feedlot ...
Kunz runs a mixed farm in Beiseker, Alta., northeast of Calgary, with his wife, father and some seasonal help. The farm comprises a cow-calf operation, feedlot and several hundred acres in a wheat, canola, barley and pea rotation. ...
In the 1980s, fermentation-produced chymosin (the major enzyme in calf rennet) replaced the use of calf rennet in most cheese production.3 More recently, precision fermentation has been used to create alternative proteins, such as Impossible Foods’ soy leghaemoglobin. ...
The drifting fish feed making device can successfully stop the anorexia nervosa of gestational female animals, the calf animals are born huge and also neat, the healthy calf rate is high, and the discouraging survival rate is considerably enhanced. ...
Dura Trac raised animal flooring is a durable, low-maintenance flooring product for livestock. It consists of steel mesh that has been coated in polyvinyl (plastisol) and has been a game-changer in animal flooring manufacturing. There are plenty of benefits to using Dura Trac flooring, and at ADA Enterprises, we’ve had over 45 years of experience to discover all of them. These are some of ...
If you are in need of a cost-efficient way to raise calves, then the Dura Trac Calf Stall may be the product for you. The Dura Trac Calf Stall is the ideal calf stall for both indoor and outdoor use. ...
Part of running a farm is making sure you have the best set up for your livestock. Advancements in technology have led to Dura Trac flooring, a great way to help keep your livestock healthy by providing a solid, clean environment for them to traverse in their stalls. Can all farm animals can use Dura Trac flooring? Whether you have small animals or large ones, Dura Trac flooring can provide the ...
Summer is just around the corner and with it, heat stress. According to a 2019 Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research study, the US dairy industry experiences $1.5 billion in losses annually to heat stress. Higher temperatures can affect herds, and in turn, can decrease performance, production, and profit. However, heat stress impacts more than just the milking herd. Between calves, dry ...
Based in Gothenburg, Nebraska, Lewis and her husband manage their small cow-calf herd and grow corn, alfalfa, and prairie hay. Since they’ve acquired their farm, Lewis has been excited to prove the benefits precision technology can have on their operation. From her first collegiate precision ag class to her role now, Lewis has been driven by her love ...
How can you create lifelong immunity starting with the calf? By incorporating these three management tips listed below. ...
Feed Products That Give Rumen Microbes What They Need to Grow Probably the most critical part of calf raising is getting enough high-quality colostrum into the calf as soon as possible after birth. ...
Most recently, Fetzer Farms installed DairyBOS, the Dairy Barn Operating System, into their cow barn. The system is designed with our veterinarians to optimize their herd health and productivity all year long, through automated ventilation, cooling, lighting, and continuous environmental feedback. It gives Fetzer the connectivity and controls they need to efficiently and precisely manage their ...
Fetzer Farms operates a double-20 parallel DeLaval milking parlor as well as its own calf and heifer facilities in Elmwood, WI. Their animal environments need to accommodate unpredictable summer humidity and heat, followed by below-zero winter temperatures and shorter daylight ...
From birth to weaning, our calf products optimizes calf health while encouraging greater intake and growth. ...
VES has developed many small barns into well-functioning calf barns when producers follow best practices to avoid overcrowding. ...
Take a close look at your maternity and bottle calf area. Tools to Monitor Gunk Besides visually observing Gunk, I like the following tools to monitor the growth of Gunk. ...
A cow starts to produce milk (lactation) when she has give birth to a calf, and continue to do so for about 10 months. Every day she produce about 25 litres of milk, and since the calf only need half of it, the rest available to use in consumer products like milk and cheese. ...
This paper highlights the environmental impacts of implementing beneficial management practices to address cattle bedding and direct access to the creek in a study watershed in southern Alberta, Canada. Approximately 35 cow–calf pairs grazed 194 ha of grass forage and had direct access to the creek in the spring and summer. ...
Regrowth interval effects on rye-ryegrass were more important in spring than winter in determining forage nutritive value and herbage mass; shorter regrowth intervals may be necessary in spring to maintain calf gains. During the warm season, shorter regrowth intervals for Tifton 85 resulted in forage with greater nutritive value, which is the key factor limiting growth of early ...
We evaluated the reliability of HCC of sika deer (Cervus nippon Temminck) using repeated counts and by comparing estimated sex ratios and calf-to-female ratios of marked deer on Nakanoshima Island, Hokkaido, Japan between April 1999 and October 2000. ...