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EPA Offers An $8 Million Grant to Provide Environmental Assistance For Livestock Operators
Washington, D.C. - EPA is requesting applications from organizations for a $7.9 million grant to provide technical assistance to livestock operators, including animal feeding operations, for the prevention of water discharges and reduction of air emissions. 'These funds support the Bush Administration's commitment to cooperative conservation and environmental stewardship in the agricultural ...
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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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Mapping livestock water requirements to inform EU water policy
Ecosystems provide a range of valuable services relevant to water. Lakes and rivers contribute to water supply, whilst forests and wetlands help protect against flooding and can also remove pollutants such as heavy metals and pesticides. The importance of ESSs is highlighted in the EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020 2 , while the Blueprint to Safeguard Europe’s Water Resources aims to improve ...
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Osborne introduces new feed bin agitator Flow Pro
Osborne Industries, Inc., a leading manufacturer and distributor of livestock management equipment, is pleased to introduce its new product designed to solve the ever-present problems of feed bridging in bulk bins at livestock facilities and farms. Flow Pro, an automatic feed agitation system, uses a gently-rotating agitator inside a bulk bin’s boot to promote first in, first out, mass-flow ...
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All-in-one solution to streamline your agricultural business
Today's agricultural producers have a much more complex job to do than their historical counterparts. Farmers of the past have basically either grown, harvested, or purchased their livestock feed from one of their nearest neighbors. As transportation options became more widely available in rural parts of the country, some farmers shifted solely to the production of animal feed, leaving others ...
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Wood Creek Livestock Company feedlot receives EPA compliance order to stop polluting Snake River tributary (ID)
Jean M. Smith, owner and operator of the Boise-based Wood Creek Livestock Company, has been issued an EPA Compliance Order for alleged violations of the federal Clean Water Act. The alleged violations occurred at the Wood Creek Feedlot near Grand View, Idaho, which is close to the Snake River and its tributaries. The Wood Creek Feedlot has a winter feeding operation which confines over 1,000 ...
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STW-Breed4Food Partnership for sustainable livestock breeding
Technology Foundation STW and the business consortium Breed4Food have launched an ambitious new research programme that links many scientific disciplines with livestock breeding. The aim of the programme – known as the STW-Breed4Food Partnership – is to acquire new insights into sustainability, animal health and welfare and to improve efficiency. STW and the Breed4Food consortium ...
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Mow Your Pastures to See Greener Grass, and Other Pasture Improvement Tips
Livestock producers who want a simple way to improve their pastures may want to consider using a tool similar to what most homeowners use to keep their neighbors happy — a mower, only bigger. Not only does mowing keep pastures looking nice, it also helps remove weeds, said Chris Penrose, an Ohio State University Extension educator. OSU Extension is the outreach arm of the College of Food, ...
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Complete Poultry Livestock Feed Pellet Production Line Equipment
In order to satisfy the specific needs and requirements of our clients, we design and install all scales highly efficient poultry & livestock feed pellet production line. The capacity ranges from 100 kg/h to 10,000 kg/h, which is applicable for large feed factory, poultry farms, or home use to make feed pellets for not only poultry like chicken, duck, geese, quail, but also livestock ...
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Planning for sustainable global biomass use
Projected future population growth, dietary changes and a growing need to use biomass for energy and fibre will increase the global use of biomass over the coming decades. Livestock are a major contributor to human biomass consumption, using from 30-75 per cent of all biomass harvested by humans, new research shows. The research suggests that integrated assessments of land and biomass use are ...
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Corn Residue Great Option for Livestock Supplemental Feed
Corn residue left over from harvesting can make an excellent source of supplemental feed for livestock, according to a forage expert from the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences at The Ohio State University. This is especially true for producers who are facing lower hay crop inventories thanks to the excessive rains that impacted the region during the beginning of the ...
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Harper Government Supports National Livestock Traceability Database
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz today announced an investment of $7.5 million to the Canadian Agri Traceability Services to develop, implement and operate a national livestock traceability data service. This national traceability database will collect, maintain and manage information in accordance with national standards, federal and provincial regulations, and ...
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The hidden environmental costs of meat production
The meat industry involves global trading of feed, live animals and processed meat. A new study suggests that environmental costs are not necessarily expressed in the price paid by the consumers benefiting from cheap meat, but as environmental damage further back up the supply chain. Global meat consumption has increased by 75 per cent in 20 years, with consumers becoming increasingly removed ...
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The plant extracts for feed additives
Application of Plant Extracts for Feed Additives:Broad-spectrum antimicrobial property and antiviralAntioxidant and Cleared freedom baseHeal digestive system. Treat diarrhea. Increase feed intake and feed returnsReduce inflammation and stimulate milk secretionImprove meat qualityFor a long time, the China market of animal feed was borrowing innovation ideas from the classical medicines. Chinese ...
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USSEC Attends World Soy-Feeds Conference in Russia
The World Soy-Feeds Conference is one of the main annual events in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) for local crushers, feed millers and livestock companies. Organized in Saint Petersburg, the event’s main goal is to disseminate the latest international information from the field of market trends, soy processing, and soy ingredient use in animal feeds by the rapidly ...
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Best Avian Control Applications for Dairy Barn Operators
Dairy barns can easily become infested with birds during the colder months. This pest bird infestation can lead to shortages in livestock feed, damage to barn structures and even help problems for humans and animals alike. Make sure your dairy barn stays bird free with Avian Enterprises. Our product, Avian Control, solves your bird problems for good. What is the Best Way to Apply Avian Control? ...
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Things You Should Know Before Starting Your Aquatic Feed Plant
In the aquatic feed extrusion process, the feedstuff actually go through the condition of high temperature, high humidity and high pressure. When the feed pellets are discharged from the fish feed extruder machine, the pressure is dropped from high pressure to about 100kPa, and the moisture in the feedstuff immediately transforms from liquid to gas and distributes out of the feed. As a result, ...
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Next step in accelerating the insect industry
VDL Insect Systems takes the next step in accelerating the insect industry by teaming up with Schauer Agrotronic GmbH, from Austria. VDL has years of experience in livestock feeding systems, from this experience an insect feeding line for mealworms was launched in the first quarter of 2022. A next step in the portfolio is adding a feeding system for BSF larvae. VDL and Schauer launch a ...
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Nutritech International and Vitec Nutrition to merge
Nutritech International and Lallemand NZ Ltd (trading as Vitec Nutrition) have announced they are to merge their businesses effective from 1st June 2016, creating New Zealand’s largest supplier of animal nutrition and forage additive technologies. Nutritech International was founded in 1915, celebrating 100 years of advice and support for New Zealand farmers in 2015. The company has been ...
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Creative BioMart Microbe Provides One-Stop Service for Bacteriocin Production
Creative BioMart Microbe, a sub-brand of Creative BioMart that provides microbiological services and products to multi-industry customers, now provides a one-stop service for bacteriocin production from the optimization of production parameters to the purification of bacteriocins and the determination of antibacterial activity. In recent years, the increase in the number of multi-drug resistant ...
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