Cattle Grazing Articles
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Complete guide to raising laying hens: organic or free range?
1. Introduction Laying hens are a key component of agriculture and animal husbandry around the world. These surprisingly versatile animals not only provide a protein-rich food source through their eggs, but also contribute to agricultural economics and sustainability through manure production and food waste reduction. In the modern context, raising laying hens has become a topic of great ...
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Bio Films in Recirculating Aquaculture system
A biofilm is an assemblage of microbial cells that’s irreversibly related to a floor and enclosed in a matrix of normally polysaccharide material. It can also additionally shape on a extensive kind of surfaces, along with residing tissues, scientific devices, commercial or potable water device pipe or herbal aquatic systems. A well-assorted organism inclusive of algae, micro organism, ...
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Earth Innovations: Everything You Need To Know About NRCS Programs for Growers
One of the most common ways for growers looking to increase their sustainability efforts is to access assistance, funding, and expertise through USDA’s Natural Resource Conservation Service. In this installment of Earth Innovations, we’re taking a look at what the NRCS offers growers and what to consider when deciding if an NRCS program is right for your farm. ...
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Feeding willow to ruminants could reduce greenhouse gas and ammonia emissions - Case Study
Trees provide shelter and shade for livestock, and some offer additional forage, nutritionally important supplementary minerals, and possible control of intestinal worms through the action of condensed tannins contained within the leaves. Condensed tannins also have the potential to suppress microbial activity in the rumen, reducing the uptake of nitrogen into the blood, and ultimately into the ...
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Making Animal Feed Pellets From Hay
Hay refers to dried grass used as livestock fodder. It is fed to especially pasturing animals, for instance, sheep, goats, horses and cattle when grazing is unobtainable due to harsh climatic conditions. Pellets are renewable organic matter made from compressed hay and other biomass, pellets are used to balance the nutrition for grazing animals. Also, the pellets are very nutritious and easy to ...
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Spring is coming, just like the giant hogweed
Spring is coming. The season in which the giant hogweed also comes up again. Make sure this plant does not cause any nuisance. Buy our giant hogweed Auger today. The giant hogweed has been on the European Union's list of invasive species since August 2017. Control of giant hogweed is mandatory in all European Union countries. In order to make the control even more effective, a hand auger was ...
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Plastic Disease: You Need To Remove Net Wrap From Hay Bales
Why Do Farmers Use Net Wrap? Ever wonder how hay is Stored in Cattle Fields? Farmers use Net Wrap, which is often made out of plastic or twine. Plastic Net wrap and twine are used to hold Hay Bales together until it is time to feed cattle. It is a quick and convenient way to gather, load, and unload Hay Bales. In fact, when stored and applied properly, Net Wrap can maintain most of ...
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What it Means: American Burying Beetle Status Change
This is the first post of our new series "What They Said - What It Means," where we unscramble the jargon around an environmental topic and discuss what it really means for project development and for you. In this post, we dive into the reasons behind the downlisting of the American burying beetle and the implications of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 4(d) rule on developments in the central ...
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2020 Prior Converted Cropland
About a month ago the US Army Corps of Engineers (Corps), The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) issued a memorandum of understanding about issues relating to implementing section 404 of the Clean Water Act (CWA) and the Food Security Act (FSA). The concern is the fact the the USDA and the EPA/Corps define wetlands differently. In short, the ...
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Why in animal production feed efficiency is so important?
Feed efficiency improvement in farms is a global challenge because: Feed efficiency is important for farmer’s profitability Available surface for agriculture and feed/forage production is decreasing Human population and food demand are increasing in quantity and quality (animal proteins) Feed costs are increasing (direct and inputs) In the future we should produce more goods with ...
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10 Regenerative Agriculture Practices Every Grower Should Follow
Worrying about bad crops due to poor soil should be a thing of the past. Modern farming that uses regenerative agriculture techniques have found greater success through 10 simple, but highly effective, practices. Learn about these practices, along with benefits to soils, crops, the environment, and the positive economic benefits. Reduced or No-till Farming Practices Cover Cropping Composting ...
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Top 3 Considerations When Buying a Slurry Applicator
Dribble bar, band spreader, trailing hose, trailing shoe, disc injector or shallow injection? Whatever name you read or see, they all refer to low emission spreading systems under evolving environmental regulations. The variety of systems available, and the number of options and features, can be baffling to even the most experienced farmer! We have put together the top three factors to think ...
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Are you over watering your pasture?
Getting the right amount of moisture to each paddock on your property to ensure grass grows well and property doesn’t scour or erode from uncontrolled water runoff is the holy grail of New Zealand farmers. Unfortunately, many assume that their irrigation company will get this sorted for them and expect that when they part out significant investments in large irrigation systems, that at ...
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Test Your Interest in Dairy Grazing With New Internship Program
Have you always wanted to dairy farm but never knew how to get started? Do you know someone who would love a career as a dairy farmer but doesn’t know where to start? The Dairy Grazing Apprenticeship now has an internship program that may be perfect for you or someone you know. The DGA internship is a great new program for people who are looking to see if this might be a good fit for them ...
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Organic Vine Management Practices
Send in the Sheep! Sheep in the vines – what a pleasant view driving in to Baileys Vineyard in Glenrowan, Victoria. It set me to thinking if this and other organic vineyard management practices could be implemented in all vineyards whether they be organically certified or not. Does sheep grazing provide a sustainable and practical alternative to chemicals or do they create more issues ...
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Talking Water with George Millear
George Millear is the owner of Tiltagoona Station, located 60km south-east of Tilpa in western New South Wales. His 66,000-acre property comprises mostly of timbered rangeland grazing country. The Bureau of Meteorology’s annual climate statement shows that 2018 was the third-warmest year on record for Australia, with New South Wales being in its sixth-driest year. Alongside many other ...
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Desert Fish Farming & Waste Management
When you think about desert farming, desert fish farming probably isn’t an activity that springs to mind. Desert farming conjures ideas of livestock grazing across dry, arid landscapes, or rows and rows of hardy, sun-worshipping crops. And yet, desert fishing is becoming increasingly popular in North Africa and the Middle East, particularly in countries like Algeria, where overfishing ...
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Desert Fish Farming & Waste Management
Fish Waste Disposal In Desert Farming When you think about desert farming, desert fish farming probably isn’t an activity that springs to mind. Desert farming conjures ideas of livestock grazing across dry, arid landscapes, or rows and rows of hardy, sun-worshipping crops. And yet, desert fishing is becoming increasingly popular in North Africa and the Middle East, particularly in countries ...
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Why are we monitoring nutrients at different depths?
Recently, LG Sonic introduced the MPC-Lab, an innovative monitoring buoy that can monitor algae, physico-chemical variables, and even nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus in near real-time and at different depths in a body of water. Combined with our other monitoring tools, this system offers a unique way to detect the spatial and temporal patterns of nutrient concentrations which play a ...
By LG Sonic
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Lambing season - Case Study
Addfield understands that lambing is the main harvest for the hill farmer, usually generating two-thirds of annual income, so we make sure our machines are a worthy investment by assuring farmer’s that they are receiving the highest quality incineration machinery. Clients overview As a farmer, deciding when the lambing season will entirely depend on your knowledge of the land and the ...
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