American Meat Institute and a coalition of meat, livestock and poultry organizations today unveiled www.balancedfoodandfuel.org, a Web site dedicated to informing policy-makers, the media and the public about the impact of national ethanol policy on the industry and on consumers. Dairy Herd Management Magazine - Industry News. American Meat Institute and a coalition of meat, livestock and poultry organizations today unveiled www.balancedfoodandfuel.org, a Web site dedicated to informing...

Newswise - infoZine- "With this program, we focus on determining under what situations extra nitrogen would be good to add and when a farmer can save money by reducing fertilizer applications without impacting yield and quality," says Quirine Ketterings, associate professor of crop and soil sciences, who co-leads the research team. Their results are successfully quantifying and predicting the nitrogen needs for growing corn, saving farmers money and reducing environmental impact. Newswise...

Hay, whether in the form of high nutrition alfalfa in the United States or roadside grass in some parts of the world, is harvested and stored for winter animal feed. A man with a fork fed the hay from a pickup into the machine while yet another drove the tractor. In 1953 a truly landmark event took place in the raising of hay on the farm: UW-Madison released Vernal, a hybrid alfalfa (the result of cross breeding 11 parental clones) that was winter hardy, bacterial wilt resistant, high...

Corn, a readily available food source in the United States, helps cattle gain more weight quicker than they would when fed grass on a small ranch, Andrews said. The reason the cattle are fed grass, hay and alfalfa is simple. If corn is slowly introduced to cattle, the animals wont have as adverse a reaction and can actually eat quite a lot of corn, which is done quite a lot on feed lots like the ones in the Front Range or panhandle of Texas, Andrews said. Their primary job is to act as big...

Through November, the MU researcher will monitor the growth habits of 60 calves from various breeds to determine if bio-leftovers provide a healthy main course to cattle. An alternative food source for cattle is but one possibility. He said economics are another factor because glycerin is currently less expensive than corn, which is most commonly used as cattle feed. The study has two main priorities: first, to determine if glycerin has a positive or negative effect on calves growth...

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This years educational tours are built around three colleges a Cow College focusing on production management issues including identifying toxic weeds; a Grass Management College including a session on managing forage fertilizers; and a Forage College with topics that include net wrapping large bales and managing warm season bermudagrass. This years educational tours are built around three colleges a Cow College focusing on production management issues including identifying toxic weeds; a...

The invasive mesquite sucks up valuable water from native grasses grazed on by livestock and wildlife, such as the pronghorn antelope. The benefit to ranchers, she says, is that they ll have healthy land and good forage for their cattle. Britt says a number of ranchers and agencies are partnering with the BLM to eradicate mesquite. Bureau of Land Management rangeland conservationist Susan Britt says the nonnative plant has become so dense over the years that it s choking out native...

Awards will be given for the best legume hay, the best grass hay and the best mixed hay. Purdue Extension officials say this year's hay crop will likely be down because of cold weather in April and additional land being need for corn farming. The real long-term effect is still six weeks away, but it is fair to say that we need an excellent rest of the season to avoid the issue of high hay prices. Secondly, the freeze that we had in April had a major effect on different regions of the...