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Benefits of the weight watcher for grow to finish barns

Both wrestlers and boxers are matched up to their competitors based on weight. Athletes who participate in these sports are constantly weighing themselves to make sure their weight is appropriate for the class in which they fight. Keeping track of human weight is a pretty simple task. Fighters simply hop on a scale for a few seconds each day and the data is recorded. Imagine this same weight ...

Jan. 19, 2017

By Osborne Industries, Inc.

Livestock Scales

How It Works Livestock producers utilize Osborne’s innovative ACCU-ARM Scales for easy, fast and accurate weighing of a variety of farm animals. Our “rock solid,” animal-friendly scales use precision levers to reduce sway and bounce and are completely cable-free. With Osborne’s Scales, the entire operation of weighing is more efficient and less stressful—for both ...

Nov. 16, 2017

By Osborne Industries, Inc.

Osborne Introduces New Digital Weight Display for ACCU-ARM Livestock Scales

Osborne, KansasOsborne Industries, Inc., manufacturer of ACCU-ARM® portable livestock scales, is pleased to announce the release of a new, cost-saving digital weight display for its 500-lb. capacity weigh scales for small animals like pig, sheep, and goats. The new digital display for ACCU-ARM scales features special programming allowing it to quickly display animal weights within seconds, ...

Jun. 15, 2020

By Osborne Industries, Inc.

Alliance releases report from 2019 Animal Rights National Conference

The Animal Agriculture Alliance released a report today detailing observations from the Animal Rights National Conference, held July 25 through July 28 in Alexandria, Virginia. The event was organized by the Farm Animal Rights Movement and sponsored by Mercy for Animals, The Save Movement, Compassion Over Killing and The Humane League, along with other animal rights extremist groups. ...

Aug. 7, 2019

By Animal Agriculture Alliance

Land-applied contaminated manure another source of spread of Q fever

A spatial analysis of the Q fever outbreak of 2006-2010 has revealed that new research Q fever outbreaks are often linked with the land application of contaminated manure. Until now it was thought that the contamination came directly from goat farms and therefore it was mainly people living in the vicinity of goat farms who became ill. The research was carried out by Alterra, in cooperation with ...

May 8, 2014

By Wageningen University and Research Centre

Launching of the Sciences & Animals Paris Saclay Institute

What types of animal selection should be used in farming in the coming years? How will the environment impact the phenotypes of animals and the expression of their genomes? How should new strategies for health be defined? Can appropriate and relevant models for prediction be developed? How are the biological systems of livestock and animal models for human health related? On February 12 2015, ...

Mar. 10, 2015

By INRA - French National Institute of Agronomical Research

Huabo will participate in the 16th (2018) China Animal Husbandry Expo at 5.18

Since 2003, the China Animal Husbandry Expo has been held for 15 consecutive years. The annual animal fairs can be called “industry events”. Exhibitors are doing their best to showcase their new achievements to the community at the exhibition. From the provinces to the international exhibition area, from the industry exhibition area to the large enterprise special exhibition area, ...

Oct. 9, 2018

By Qingdao Rilian Huabo Technology Co., Ltd.

Building communities in the Sahel that can weather shocks

The time has come to break the "vicious circle" of crises in Africa's Sahel by proactively building up the ability of pastoralist and rural communities to weather drought and other shocks, rather than merely helping them recover from disaster after the fact. "We cannot prevent droughts or floods, but we can put in place measures that will help stop them from turning into famine," FAO ...

Oct. 29, 2013

By Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Study probes sources of Mississippi river phosphorus

In their eagerness to cut nitrogen and phosphorus pollution in the Mississippi River and Gulf of Mexico, people have often sought simple explanations for the problem: too many large animal operations, for instance, or farmers who apply too much fertilizer, which then flows into waterways. But according to new modeling research that examined phosphorus loading from all 1768 counties in the ...

May 5, 2011

By Soil Science Society of America (SSSA)

Evonik to concentrate MetAMINO production at its three, world-scale, best-in-class hubs

Evonik is to cluster its MetAMINO® (DL-methionine) production at three international hubs (Americas, Europe, and Asia) to maximize economies of scale and utilize robust processes. Evonik to manage all its DL-methionine production from three world-scale hubs in Europe, Americas and Asia. Evonik to strengthen its competitiveness by further improving its cost position. Evonik to ...

Oct. 13, 2020

By Evonik Fibres GmbH

Global food demand scenarios for the 21st century: new online tool

Global food demand will double until mid-century, and in particular the demand for animal products will rise rapidly, a study by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research shows. The development of future diets is not only crucial for food security and nutrition, but also for greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture. Using a new simple and transparent tool, the scientists investigated ...

Nov. 5, 2015

By The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)

Groups Sue Farm Service Agency for Concealing Records on Funding of Industrial Animal Ag

Today, a group of advocacy organizations filed a lawsuit against the Farm Service Agency (FSA) to stop its systematic delay and over-redaction of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) responses. Advocacy groups have long been seeking loan-related records to understand how taxpayer dollars are propping up industrial animal agriculture operations at the expense of small family farms. FSA's illegal ...

Feb. 12, 2020

By Center for Food Safety (CFS)

EuroTier 2018

Digitisation is also increasingly gaining ground in agriculture in parallel with automation. One company at the leading edge of development in these fields and as rich in innovation as it is in tradition is Prüllage Systeme of Holdorf in Lower Saxony. The smart farming systems developed by Prüllage in recent years have already made history in the world of "Agriculture 4.0 . Farm ...

Jan. 1, 2018

By Prüllage Systeme GmbH