Food is cached during periods of abundance and eaten during periods of scarcity. In the western portion of its range, fox squirrels have grayish and grizzled upper parts, with a distinctive orange tinge. Now living on the prairie, squirrel scoldings were a distant memory until just the other day when I saw an eastern fox squirrel (Sciurus niger) just east of town. Food is carried in the jaws, a hole is dug with the forepaws and the food is buried below the surface or covered with leaf...

He estimated the machine was about 10-feet tall and about 10-feet long. Nettleton said the fire started in a paddle dryer that is used in the manufacture of a poultry feed additive. It makes chemicals for use in animal feed additives, human pharmaceuticals and fine chemicals, according to the company's Web site. in the plant's drying department, said Joe Nettleton, vice president of operations and site director. Nettleton said the plant's automatic fire suppression system was activated and...

Making ethanol from corn does not mean we feed less corn to animals, just in a different form. Power is also saved because the distillers grains from the ethanol production process are not dried; wet distillers grains will be fed directly to the cattle in the feedlot. Crop rotation, using livestock manure and old alfalfa stands for fertilizer, and spring plowing has given way to no-till, GPS application of fertilizers and chemicals, buffer strips and carbon credits. All can be fed to...

Winter pastures and small-grains fields are struggling to survive, and producers statewide are irrigating crops to compensate for lack of soil moisture. Welch said continued lack of rain combined with colder temperatures could have a significant impact on this seasons wheat production and on the international wheat market, but its still too early to tell. Although some forage is available for livestock, some producers reported initiating supplemental feeding. Prospects for decent wheat...

Preun, who also farms 6,200 acres of grain land, will feed less wheat and barley to pigs and haul more grain to the elevator, taking advantage of a grain and oilseeds price boom. The Manitoba Pork Council estimates the province may produce one million fewer market and weanling hogs in the first nine months of next year -- a drop of 14 per cent. Riese said his own losses are less than that -- more like $25 to $30 an animal -- partly because he has developed a niche, raising purebred boars...

Current battery technology is not advancing in efficiency by leaps and bounds, so until we migrate to a new medium of storing energy, vehicles might, rather than producing toxic fumes constantly while running, produce several hundred pounds of toxic batteries every several years which need to be disposed. Current battery technology is not advancing in efficiency by leaps and bounds, so until we migrate to a new medium of storing energy, vehicles might, rather than producing toxic fumes...

Article continues I have always grown salad, tomatoes, a few tripods of climbing beans and the rudimentary herbs in my garden here, but it has been seven years since I grew vegetables seriously, and Allan Jenkins and his team at The Observer Magazine got me pining for more of that type of gardening. It is smaller, 15ft by 30ft, and is surrounded by chain link, bindweed and the wild hops of the neglected plots next door. I was given the keys to a plot in late summer by friends who were...

If you cast the bait 30 feet out from the shore and retrieve it, the lure is in the most productive zone for only the last 10 feet of the cast. Light penetration and oxygen is deeper, therefore fish are usually are found deeper and fish feed more toward morning and evening or even at night. Also, in clear water walleyes school more and usually roam to find food, but if the water is slow to warm and they might be a little lethargic. They utilize their excellent senses of vision and hearing,...

As far as the quality of the animals, the deer we re seeing are in pretty good condition and I expect antler quality and body weights to be above average. The deer are not moving much due to the good habitat conditions, and are eating very little supplemental feed, said Herrera. Krueger said back-to-back years of low fawn production has had an impact and although the deer are making up ground this year, hunters in some areas still may see fewer deer. With the high fawn survival biologists...