Technology is being deployed throughout the agricultural sector at an exponentially-increasing pace. Applications of precision agricultural techniques and devices abound when it comes to crop production. Billy Cook, senior vice president ...
Area beef producers should make plans to attend the first annual Three-State Beef Conference Jan. 14, 15 and 16, 2014 with locations in Iowa, Missouri and Nebraska. Topics and speakers for the conference include: "Cover Crops for ...
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Beef cattle producers who want boost their profit potential and become more competitive in the cattle industry can learn how by attending the 2014 Ohio Beef Cattle School series Jan. 28, Feb. 18 and March 11, 2014, taught by experts from ...
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The USDA released its last Cattle on Feed report of 2013 this past Friday and it showed the number of cattle and calves on feed for slaughter market in the United States for feedlots with capacity of 1,000 or more head totaled 10.7 million ...
Beef cattle nutrition, breeding and bedding were among the subjects NDSU researchers studied in 2013. Beef cattle diets, breeding systems, drylot vs. pasture cow-calf production, forage digestibility enhancements, grazing and effects of ...
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The Ohio State University Extension Beef Team is announcing the upcoming 2014 Ohio Beef Cattle School.This monthly series will begin on Tuesday,January 28 and continue on February 18 and March 11,2014 and will start each evening at 7:00 ...
Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service economists recently provided 2014 projections for major commodities produced in Texas, with many pointing to past drought conditions as a key factor in making or breaking a crop. The Plains region of ...
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Death on the farm a grim reality of agriculture Meet the apostle of post-organic agriculture All beef cattle are only a bolt-gun away from death, but life before the steel bullet is better for some than others. Much better. Quite simply, ...
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Cattle on the Schilke Ranch in northwestern North Dakota, located on Bakken Shale. Photo: Jacki Schilke In the midst of the domestic energy boom, livestock on farms near oil-and-gas drilling operations nationwide have been quietly falling ...
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The Australian Bureau of Statistics has officially confirmed Australia's 2011-12 cotton crop was a record 973,000 tonnes, up 15% on the previous year. It’s Agricultural Commodities 2011-12 report showed a slight increase in the total ...
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Australia's $9 billion polymers industry will be boosted by a national cooperative research initiative. The launch featured a novel degradable plastic film that Greening Australia and the Birchip Cropping Group have shown can dramatically ...
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American agribusiness company Cargill has announced that it will idle its beef processing facility in Plainview, Texas, on 1 February 2013, and lay off 2000 workers. The company has blamed reduced cattle supply resulting from years of ...
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(i) GDP Data In 2005, XPCC realized a total output value of 33.112 billion Yuan including an output value of primary industry of 13.064 billion Yuan, that of secondary industry of 8.335 billion Yuan, that of tertiary industry of 11.713 ...
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Data of GDP The gross national product of Jilin was 362.027 billion Yuan, increasing by 12 percent, the gross national product per person was 13,348 Yuan, the primary industry was 62.561 billion Yuan, 17.3 percent of the gross, the ...
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The Maonan people are brave, enterprising, and have no fear of hardships. They send their children to school no matter how hard their life is, so they can have higher education and there are a large number of intellectuals among them. ...
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