Livestock Bedding News
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Water concerns in farming back in the news
Tighter water abstraction rules once again threaten to have an affect on UK food production growers have been warned, according to Farmers Weekly. Time-limited water abstraction licenses, which are due to expire this year, are being assessed by the Environment Agency to ensure that they comply with the EU Water Framework Directive. License conditions may change if they are deemed to be a risk to ...
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Polyethylene mulch, glazing create optimal conditions for soil solarization
Soil solarization, a process that uses solar radiation to rid the soil of pests, is most common in regions with high solar radiation and high temperatures during the summer season. An alternative to soil fumigation, the process is used either alone or in combination with fumigants. To accomplish solarization, solar radiation is used to passively heat moist soil covered with clear plastic ...
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Growing greener cities in Latin America and the Caribbean
A new FAO report to be published today finds that urban and peri-urban agriculture (UPA) is widespread in Latin America and the Caribbean, but realizing its full potential requires increased support from national, state and local governments. “Growing greener cities in Latin America and the Caribbean” looks at the progress that has been made toward realizing 'greener cities' in which ...
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Innovative Risk Management Program a First for Ontario`s Greenhouse Flower Growers
The governments of Canada and Ontario are helping the province's greenhouse industry meet consumer demand for high quality floral products by supporting an innovative, private sector risk management fund. The industry-designed GreenCHIP fund will provide compensation for lost product and business interruption in the event of a quarantine ordered by the Canada Food Inspection Agency. Flowers ...
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Vermeer Introduces BPX9000 Bale Processor
The all-new BPX9000 Bale Processor from Vermeer combines simplicity, durability and versatility to meet the needs of today’s cattle producers. The easy to operate machine is built tough with a unique, T-‐style frame, the bed design and offset rotor produce even and consistent feed with minimal maintenance, and an optional large square bale kit includes enhancements to ...
By Vermeer
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Vermeer introduces BPX9000 Bale Processor
The all-‐new BPX9000 Bale Processor from Vermeer combines simplicity, durability and versatility to meet the needs of today’s cattle producers. The easy to operate machine is built tough with a unique, T-‐style frame, the bed design and offset rotor produce even and consistent feed with minimal maintenance, and an optional large square bale kit includes enhancements to ...
By Vermeer
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BioLargo`s Odor-No-More Announces New Five Pound Packaging for Award Winning Animal Bedding Additive
BioLargo, Inc. (OTCBB: BLGO), creator of patented iodine technologies, today announced that, in response to customer demand, it has introduced new five pound packaging for its award-winning Animal Bedding Additive with an introductory retail price point of $19.98. The new package will contain the same product that earned the prestigious Horse Journal "Product of the Year" award in 2010, proven to ...
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BioLargo’s Odor-No-More wins coveted Editor’s Choice Award after independent evaluation by the Horse Journal
BioLargo, Inc. (OTCBB: BLGO) today announced that its Odor-No-More Deodorizing Super-Absorbent Animal Bedding Additive received the top “Editor’s Choice” award from the prestigious “Horse Journal” publication, which is the industry’s leading independent and unbiased product, care and service guide for people who love horses. “This award validates the ...
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BioLargo’s odor-no-more lands national distributor – Lextron Animal Health
BioLargo, Inc. (OTCBB: BLGO) today announced that Lextron Animal Health has begun distributing its award winning Odor-No-More(TM) Animal Bedding Additive. Lextron Animal Health is a division of Lextron, Inc., which was established in 1967 as Great Plains Chemical Company, a distributor of animal health products for the livestock industry. The name was later changed to Lextron and has grown to ...
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BioLargo, Inc. secures additional infrastructure and resources to continue building odor-no-more sales channels
BioLargo, Inc. (OTCBB: BLGO) announced today that it has completed several important business developments to better serve its growing sales channels for its award winning Odor-No-More product-line, including its animal bedding additive which can reduce customer’s bedding consumption and disposal by up to 75%. First, the company is now warehousing inventory in multiple locations ...
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Smurfit Kappa Recycling celebrates a green decade of yellow pages
One of the largest reprocessors of paper and cardboard in the UK, Smurfit Kappa Recycling, is celebrating 10 years of successfully turning old editions of the Yellow Pages directories into new packaging materials at its paper mills in Birmingham and Kent. Thanks to the processes and technologies used at the mills, Smurfit Kappa Recycling was one of the first UK organisations to accept Yellow ...
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A Cost Effective Way of Installing Irrigation Pipe
Are you tired of the major investment in equipment, trailers to haul it, and large gas guzzling trucks to pull it all? Why not look at another way of doing business. The TRENCH'N edge trencher is a portable, cost effective way of installing irrigation pipe. It fits in the back of the smallest fuel efficient pick-ups or mini-vans. Don't tear down fences to get your large equipment into the ...
By Edge Inc.
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Improving livelihoods for poorer forest dwellers in Nepal
Community forestry in Nepal claims to be a successful model of participatory, community-based forest management, and there is considerable evidence that it is improving forest protection and regeneration. However, community forestry makes only a limited contribution to improving rural livelihoods. New research suggests that social factors may be limiting the access of poorer households to ...
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British composting firm signs gasification deal
A Bedfordshire-based composting company has signed a deal to set up a 1.5MW gasification plant on its site. Growing Beds Recycling Services Ltd, a specialist in manufacturing soil conditioners for agriculture and recycling low grade wood waste, has struck a deal with renewable energy company Purepower to construct one of the UK's first such plants. When fully operational, it is set to convert ...
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New Process Converts Poultry Litter into Bio-oil
BLACKSBURG, Virginia, August 29, 2007 (ENS) - Each year in the United States the poultry industry produces more than 5.6 million tons of litter - a mixture of bedding, manure, feathers, and spilled feed. Now, a team of researchers in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Virginia Tech is developing transportable pyrolysis units that will convert poultry litter into bio-oil that can be ...
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