Forage testing is a tool to determine current nutritive values as well as non-nutritive values in forages that can be used for marketing hay, formulating rations, and determining potential toxicities or other problems (i.e., prussic acid, ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
The annual Farmers and Ranchers Cow/Calf College "Partners in Progress – Beef Seminar" will be held at the U.S. Meat Animal Research Center and Great Plains Veterinary Education Center near Clay Center Jan. 28. The college will ...
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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Up till now, the connection most people would make between nanomaterials and Alzheimer’s has always been as a potential treatment for the devastating disease. But now, instead of a nanomaterial treating the disease, researchers at the ...
The traditionally low-cost pasture-based dairying regions, such as Australia, have lost their cost advantage as input prices have risen, and now compete on the global market with a similar cost of production to producers with more intensive ...
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Say goodbye to chills this season with Zivame’s range of winterwear. Zivame.com has launched a collection of winterwear to sleep and lounge in this winter. There are fashionable ‘onesies’ which come in trendy polka dots ...
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Temperatures dropped below zero today, and the last hint of green is diminishing from lawns and pastures. Now is a critical time to focus on cows' nutrition. For spring-calving herds, producers need to key in on the needs of the pregnant ...
Tags: Bred Cows, Agriculture, Food
After overcoming a recession, drought, and liquidation of many herds in the past two years, cash cattle prices finally moved higher this fall. Factors such as small cattle numbers, a favorable demand base, and lower feed prices have sent ...
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Chinese consumers can expect higher dairy prices in December because of a shrinking supply of raw milk from the country's fragmented milk farms. Most domestic dairy companies put up prices last week, ranging from five to 20 percent. This ...
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Numerous new microbial source tracking (MST) methodologies have been developed in the last decade, but many of these have been tested in just a few laboratories with a limited number of fecal samples. This method evaluation study in ...
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After 85 years, antibiotics are growing impotent. So what will medicine, agriculture and everyday life look like if we lose these drugs entirely? A few years ago, I started looking online to fill in chapters of my family history that no ...
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Packs, COWs, WOWs and FOPs – these are all just another way to describe airline passengers. Don Bell, the retired co-founder of WestJet, spoke to conference attendees at the 2013 Ontario Trucking Association meeting and shed light ...
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You probably know by now that turmeric has been acknowledged as a potent anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, and anti-cancer substance. Turmeric is a rhizome with edible roots that grow underground horizontally. It's actually related to ginger ...
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With this coming February being American Heart Month and with the holiday gluttony behind us, maybe this is a good time to look at the causes and cure for heart disease. Heart disease is the number one killer in civilized nations with ...
The widening gap between milk demand and supply will lead to a shortage totaling about 15 to 20 percent of China's market value in 2017, or 66 billion yuan ($10.75 billion), a report has said. Driven by increasing consumption and deeper ...
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