livestock feed growing Articles
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The KAHL Crown Expander - a Way out of the Feed Structure Dilemma
Introduction: For some time now, more and more have turned away worldwide, particularly in Germany, from the hitherto customary fine grinding of pig and poultry feed. For a time, fine grinding was seen as key to achieve high feed conversion rates and good pellet quality with low fines. But today, it is recognised more and more that the vulnerability of our livestock is growing with the genetic ...
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How To Design A Feed Production Line
The complete feed production line refers to the equipment of the processing from the material initial state until the finished product of the feed pellets, composed of feed pellet production device. Zhengzhou Fusmar Machinery is a professional feed pellet production line manufacturer, this article will introduce how to design a feed production in detail. All Aspects Of The Feed Production Line ...
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Antibiotics and the Livestock Industry
The Earth’s population has more than quadrupled in the last 150 years, which has led to dramatic changes in the livestock industry because farmers had to increase the density of animals in order to meet demand. As a result of the increased proximity of animals to one another, disease became a huge problem. Subsequently, antibiotics began being commonly used on livestock farms. Originally, ...
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Overfishing Threatens Critical Link in the Food Chain
The fish near the bottom of the aquatic food chain are often overlooked, but they are vital to healthy oceans and estuaries. Collectively known as forage fish, these species—including sardines, anchovies, herrings, and shrimp-like crustaceans called krill—feed on plankton and become food themselves for larger fish, seabirds, and marine mammals. Historically, people have eaten ...
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Family farms can be competitive by focusing on conservation and stewardship
While the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reports a 40 percent decline in U.S. cropland soil erosion rates from 1982 to 2007, recent trends appear to challenge this progress. Record prices for corn and soybeans have diverted acres out of conservation programs and encouraged intensive production on a wide scale. Tree lines are cleared and wet areas drained, turning 120-acre farms into ...
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Does one of the world’s most abundant animals need protection from our appetite?
As demand grows and habitat disappears, scientists ponder tighter controls on the Antarctic krill harvest. Barely longer than your thumb, weighing under an ounce and nearly translucent, delicate crustaceans known as krill are vital to ocean ecosystems around the world. In the waters that encircle Antarctica, krill are an essential food source for penguins, baleen and blue whales (which can eat ...
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