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Flies and Fly Problems
Information on the types of flies found on farms that may need to be controlled from 'Fly Management: How to Comply with Your Environmental Permit' from the UK's Environment Agency. ...
Information on the types of flies found on farms that may need to be controlled from 'Fly Management: How to Comply with Your Environmental Permit' from the UK's Environment Agency. ...
Fertiliser: How Much Is In Each Bale?
A huge cost to farmers growing forage, fertilser is a nonetheless vital expense which has trebled per ton of dry matter produced since 2002, writes Dennis Hancock, Extension Forage Specialist at the University of Georgia....
A huge cost to farmers growing forage, fertilser is a nonetheless vital expense which has trebled per ton of dry matter produced since 2002, writes Dennis Hancock, Extension Forage Specialist at the University of Georgia....
Utilising Pasture Effectively
Stock management is as important for utilising pasture as grass management is for ensuring quality grazing, say beef consultants at the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food. ...
Stock management is as important for utilising pasture as grass management is for ensuring quality grazing, say beef consultants at the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food. ...
What to do With Open Cows?
Due to their costs implications, open cows need to be diagnosed early via a blood test, rectal palpatation or ultrasonography due to the expensive nature of keeping cows over replacing with a new heifer. ...
Due to their costs implications, open cows need to be diagnosed early via a blood test, rectal palpatation or ultrasonography due to the expensive nature of keeping cows over replacing with a new heifer. ...
Enhancing Safety at Every Step in Food Supply Chain
Few would dispute that the emergence of chilled and frozen food technologies in the last century was a major advance for modern society, transforming all our lives and bringing convenience and choice. In Europe today, consumption of chilled and frozen...
Few would dispute that the emergence of chilled and frozen food technologies in the last century was a major advance for modern society, transforming all our lives and bringing convenience and choice. In Europe today, consumption of chilled and frozen...
The Relationship Between Nutritional Status and Bovine Welfare Associated to Adoption of Intensive Silvopastoral Systems in Tropical Conditions
Cattle comfort can be ensured in Intensive Silvopastoral Systems by using woodland grazing to acclimatise livestock to heat and offer protection from changeable weather and thirst, Colombian researchers have found....
Cattle comfort can be ensured in Intensive Silvopastoral Systems by using woodland grazing to acclimatise livestock to heat and offer protection from changeable weather and thirst, Colombian researchers have found....
Mythematics: Distorting Data For Shock Value
Don't be fooled by misleading data. Government testing said 55 per cent of ground beef contained antibiotic resistant bacteria but this was the E.Faecalis which is naturally resistant to the lincomycin, used in the tests. ...
Don't be fooled by misleading data. Government testing said 55 per cent of ground beef contained antibiotic resistant bacteria but this was the E.Faecalis which is naturally resistant to the lincomycin, used in the tests. ...
Keys to Success When Harvesting Alfalfa as Baleage
Good baleage will be wrapped within 12 hours of baling and have a moisture level between 40 and 60 per cent, according to Ray Smith, Forage Extension Specialist at the University of Kentucky....
Good baleage will be wrapped within 12 hours of baling and have a moisture level between 40 and 60 per cent, according to Ray Smith, Forage Extension Specialist at the University of Kentucky....
Benefits of a Green Maternity Ward Beef Cows
Calving is arriving in Ontario and farmers are being told to calve on pasture, following 15 years of research. ...
Calving is arriving in Ontario and farmers are being told to calve on pasture, following 15 years of research. ...
Fly Management Techniques
Measures for fly prevention on farms and control measures are outlined in 'Fly management: How to comply with your environmental permit' from the UK's Environment Agency....
Measures for fly prevention on farms and control measures are outlined in 'Fly management: How to comply with your environmental permit' from the UK's Environment Agency....
Feasibility of Introducing Methods to Reduce Shedding of E. coli O157 in Cattle
The use of probiotics in feed, vaccination of animals and a combined package of eight biosecurity measures were the main methods of a study by the British Food Standards Agency which shortlisted good on-farm controls for reducing E. coli O157 shedding...
The use of probiotics in feed, vaccination of animals and a combined package of eight biosecurity measures were the main methods of a study by the British Food Standards Agency which shortlisted good on-farm controls for reducing E. coli O157 shedding...
Australia Beef Association Investigation into the Efficacy of Identification Scheme
Eight years since its introduction, the ABA has appraised the efficacy of radio frequency based tagging, concluding that more than a third of animals did not have full traceability. ...
Eight years since its introduction, the ABA has appraised the efficacy of radio frequency based tagging, concluding that more than a third of animals did not have full traceability. ...
New Pasture Hope for Saltland Grazing
Melilotus Siculus, a cultivar of Messina offers grazing productivity increases on saline or waterlogged pastures and is set to be commercially available in 2015 thanks to work by the South Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI)....
Melilotus Siculus, a cultivar of Messina offers grazing productivity increases on saline or waterlogged pastures and is set to be commercially available in 2015 thanks to work by the South Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI)....
Investigating and Resolving Fly Complaints
An eight-step process of resolving complaints is outlined by the UK's Environment Agency in its publication 'Fly management: how to comply with your environmental permit'....
An eight-step process of resolving complaints is outlined by the UK's Environment Agency in its publication 'Fly management: how to comply with your environmental permit'....
Early Intensive Grazing to Control Kentucky Bluegrass
Pasture composition can be influenced by early mob grazing, but can it control Kentucky bluegrass? Bryan Neville, Director of Central Grasslands Research at North Dakota State University discusses ongoing research into intensive grazing and effects on...
Pasture composition can be influenced by early mob grazing, but can it control Kentucky bluegrass? Bryan Neville, Director of Central Grasslands Research at North Dakota State University discusses ongoing research into intensive grazing and effects on...
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