Allan McGinty of San Angelo said warm temperatures coupled with above-average rainfall have stimulated significant plant growth within pastures resulting in excellent and improving forage quality and quantity for many Texas ranchers. Ryegrass pastures are doing well, allowing some cattle producers to reduce hay feeding. High fertilizer prices may trigger a decline in this year's forage production. Warm spring weather with moisture is providing ideal growing conditions for cool season...

A gas field services company will be in court this morning demanding extra keys to gates that New Mexico ranchers locked last week in protest of what the ranchers say is mistreatment of the land. Other industry officials have said gas producers try toprotect the environment while producing energy vital to the nation. The Blancetts are one of three ranching families who last week locked gates across access roads on their land near Aztec. Gas extraction companies use the roads to access gas...

They just don't tell you about what they do with 90 percent of the animals that aren't adopted or recovered by their owners. After she launched into a tirade about how the ranchers wouldn't be in this situation if they had treated the animals differently, Peterson was repeatedly asked how an organization that was supposed to care about animals could let thousands of cattle starve to death. The American Reporter Vol. You people are so far beyond hurting your work, a story about how PETA...

Victor says they look for cows that do well foraging on grass in the field, because the cows walk to their food, it isn't brought to them as it would be on most commercial farms. There are 38 milking cows at Appleton, and they all have to be bred once a year, by artificial insemination, to make them good, steady milk producers. Within 12 hours of being delivered, calves are led away from their mothers and pushed out the barn door to face the world on their own, and it's all for the...

Tuesday, April 10, 2007 Sanchez: Staving off GMO invasions By Benedicto Sanchez Nature Speaks I PLANNED to write an Easter column about the resurrection and the "afterlife" of some former high-ranking Maoist cadres who returned to their childhood Christian faith. Tuesday, April 10, 2007 Sanchez: Staving off GMO invasions By Benedicto Sanchez Nature Speaks I PLANNED to write an Easter column about the resurrection and the "afterlife" of some former high-ranking Maoist cadres who returned to...

The provincial and federal government have teamed up to contribute almost $40 million to eliminate bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) from Albertas cattle herds. The enhanced feed ban is intended to further protect animal health and accelerate Canadas progress toward eradicating BSE from the national herd. The 60:40 federal-provincial cost sharing agreements funding will go towards removing all specified risk material (SRM) which are tissues that can harbour BSE, from all animal feeds,...

In an effort to streamline its poultry division, Tyson Foods inc. said Thursday it will sell two Alabama chicken processing plants and supporting facilities -- eliminating 400 jobs in that region. Koch will run the commodity chicken processing plants, pet food facilities and cold storage warehouses in both Ashland and Gadsden, according to the release. Tyson Foods said its Gadsden plant had not been running at full capacity after five percent production cuts were made in the company's...

He's been caring for chickens since he was about 3 years old on his grandfather's chicken farm, and admits to interacting better with birds than people. Visitors to the Oakdell Egg Farm, about 10 miles north of Pasco, must don white biosuits in their vehicles before stepping into the dark 280-foot long barn to see the chicks. Walking toward the metal barn on a recent afternoon, he said the first few days are the most critical for the tiny fluffy chicks. Delivered just in time for Easter,...

The PRIME BioSolutions' fully integrated ethanol-producing facility produces 27 million gallons of ethanol from corn a year, feeds wet cake distillers grains to 25,000 to 30,000 beef cattle, collects and breaks down the manure and distillers syrup in the anaerobic digester and uses the heat produced to run the ethanol plant, replacing 90 to 100 percent of the plant's natural gas needs. The PRIME BioSolutions' fully integrated ethanol-producing facility produces 27 million gallons of...