Cattle Feeding News
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Cultivating change: Sri Lanka’s smallholder farmers explore climate-resilient solutions
On the north-central plains of Sri Lanka, in the small rural village in Galenbindunuwewa, a community of maize farmers are reshaping their farming practices to respond to the growing challenges posed by climate change. They recently welcomed researchers from the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and a delegation from the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food ...
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Vytelle Announces The 2022 Top 150 Proven Bulls
Vytelle announces the release of the Top 150 Proven Bulls. Together, with more than 30 of their network partners, Vytelle is sharing high accuracy bulls that have risen to the top of more than 94,000 animals of 25 different breeds and more than 289,000 RFI EPDs. “Cattle producers need to be able to replicate the right genetics now,” said Kerryann Kocher, Chief Executive Officer for ...
By Vytelle, LLC
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Feed Processing Plant Equipment For Animal Feed Pellets
Feed processing plant equipment is usually built for small or medium scale animal feed production factories. The medium feed pellet line can process feed pellets for poultry, livestock and also aquatic feed. The main machines in this kind of pellet production line include: feed hammer mill, silo, mixing machine, ring die feed pellet mill, feed pellet cooling machine, feed pellets packaging ...
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Poultry Feed Pellet Production Line Manufacturing Cattle Chicken Feed
Poultry feed pellet production line used in large scale feed mill plant, feed factory, cultivation factory. Ideal feed milling production line for high yield and high automation fodder production. Planning to build an animal feed pellet production plant? Fusmar Machinery is a reliable poultry feed plant production line manufacturer with years of experiences who can offer exactly what you want! ...
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Crushing Roller Mill by KAHL
High-quality ingredients and an optimal formula are the most important factors in animal feeding. The importance of the feed structure, however, often goes unmentioned, although research and tests carried out by various institutes of the feed industry in recent years have shown that it is an at least equally important factor for successful feeding and animal health. For this reason, the machine ...
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DGA Update: USDA Assistance Program Signups Now Open
The USDA has announced Coronavirus Food Assistance Program details. Sign-ups for this program started on May 26 and runs through Aug. 28. There are payments ($16 billion in total) for dairy, livestock, commodity crops, specialty crops and wool. Payments will be prorated at 80 percent upfront and 20 percent later in the year. Organic dairy is expected to be treated, in this context, like any other ...
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DGA Update: Grazing Innovation Center Now Open to the Public
Dairy Grazing Apprenticeship has its own course offering that has been traditionally for apprentices going through the DGA program, the Managed Grazing Innovation Center. It is also now available to Masters, Interns, and the public for the first time! The MGIC currently has seven different offerings. In the fall, you can take Dairy Cattle Health and Wellness, Soil and Water Resources ...
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Cattle on Feed Lower Than Pre-Report Estimates
On August 1, there were 10.6 million head of cattle on feed, up 4 percent from the previous year. The rate of cattle placed onto feed has slowed noticeably, coming in only 3 percent up from 2016. August is the first month in 2017 without double digit placements since February, as February’s numbers dropped 1 percent without the extra calendar day of the 2016 leap year. In every other ...
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Scientists take on greenhouse gas challenge
Swiss scientists have found a way to turn the potent greenhouse gas methane into the fuel methanol – with help from water and a simple catalyst. Meanwhile, US researchers have tested a way to convert methane into biofuels, specialised chemicals or even cattle feed with help from one microbe from rice fields and another from a Siberian lake. And in Norway, engineers are testing something ...
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VICAM Now Offers a Single Extraction Test for Aflatoxins and Fumonisins in Corn and Grain
Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT) today announced VICAM, a Waters Business, now offers a single extraction method for the detection of aflatoxins and fumonisins in corn and grain. The Afla-V® AQUA™ and Fumo-V® AQUA™ provide quantitative results in only five-minutes (after extraction/sample prep). The simple, one-step, water-based process eliminates solvent use completely. ...
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Keeping a pulse on the soil
Leaving behind stubble is not ideal when shaving, but it’s a good practice to leave behind crop “stubble” after harvest. According to soil scientist Frank Larney, crop residue anchors the soil against wind and water erosion. Avoiding bare soils is one part of a soil conservation package he and his research team demonstrate in a 12-year experiment growing pulses in southern ...
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Cow-calf Producers: Pay Attention to Livestock Nutrition Needs, Especially After Calving
As livestock producers move from winter feed to spring grazing, they should pay extra attention to spring-calving beef cows to make sure their nutritional needs are met, says a beef cattle expert with the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences at The Ohio State University. That could mean leading the animals away from early green grass this spring, said John Grimes, beef ...
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First-ever federal rules for offshore fish farming issued
The first-ever federal regulations for large-scale fish farming in the ocean were issued Monday, opening a new frontier in the harvesting of popular seafood species such as red drum, tuna and red snapper. The new rules allow the farming of fish in federal waters of the Gulf of Mexico. The rules - in the making for years - were announced in New Orleans by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...
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Beet your Molasses requirements with dedicated Molasses Tanks
Towards the end of the summer, attention gradually shifts towards providing for livestock throughout the winter months, and along with the impending beet crops, the production and storage of molasses is once more back on the agenda. Across many livestock and dairy farms, molasses forms the basis of numerous feed formulas. As we all know, molasses provide a number of core nutrients for cattle and ...
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US seed plan aims to protect land after natural disasters
Federal authorities announced a plan Monday to produce massive quantities of seeds from native plants that can be quickly planted to help land recover from natural disasters such as wildfires and hurricanes. The program will make landscapes more resilient and healthier, especially Western rangelands where massive wildfires have been an increasing problem, the U.S. Department of the Interior ...
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Discussing fiber degradation and dairy cow development in Denmark
A technical meeting “from Calf to cow” recently organized in Kibæk, Denmark, was attended by 45 farmers. A panel of four external contributors allowed to cover complementary topics from calf to cow nutrition. Panel comprises of external vet, nutritionists and feedmillers. The discussions were rich and animated, and topics such as calves daily growth and fiber digestibility ...
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Lallemand Animal Nutrition Strengthens its Beef Cattle Expertise
Lallemand Animal Nutrition is pleased to announce the appointment of Bruno Martin as new Ruminant Technical Support Manager to support the company’s beef cattle activities in Europe. Few months ago, the Company also hired Dr Kerry Barling, a veterinarian with experience in beef health and microbiology as Global Manager of Beef Technology for the North American market. Bruno Martin has over ...
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Rice serves up double measure of biofuel and fodder
Japanese scientists have found a potential answer to the biofuel dilemma that if you grow crops for energy, you have to sacrifice crops for food. They report that they can now ferment rice to deliver ethanol, while making silage for cattle feed –and that it can all be done on the farm without need for any expensive off-site processes. Mitsuo Horita, of the National Institute for ...
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OSU Extension: Acorn Poisoning a Potential Threat to Cattle, Sheep
The increase in this year’s fall acorn crop means that livestock producers who have oak trees in their pastures need to be on the lookout -- acorns from these trees could cause kidney failure in their animals, particularly in cattle and sheep. Acorn poisoning can be a significant issue for producers, especially in feeder calves that are more susceptible to developing kidney failure after ...
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Two new limpograss cultivars released for select Florida cattlemen
The University of Florida, in partnership with Florida Foundation Seed Producers Inc., has released two new limpograss cultivars so ranchers can increase the forage variety they feed their cattle. Florida beef cattle producers use limpograss, a warm-season, perennial grass for its high digestibility, cool-season growth and tolerance to poorly drained soils. The new lines, limpograsses 4F and ...
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