MOUNT GILEAD, Ohio — Ohio livestock producers are exploring grass-fed beef production to meet market demands for what many consider to be a healthful and ecologically sustainable product.
Production
However, the production side of the system can be daunting.
“Finishing animals on grass is the hardest grazing management system to accomplish,” said Jeff McCutcheon, an […]
One of the biggest concerns for farmers is hosting a visitor that might be bringing with them disease pathogens that could potentially be transmitted to the farm animals, and eventually between animals, or bringing a new disease onto the farm through purchased stock.
Farmers around the world have responded to growing demand by producing record crops recently. As a result, USDA forecasts that global ending stocks for 2009/10 (June-May) will be 196.8 million metric tons, up 60 percent from a recent low of 123.3 million metric tons in 2007/08.
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio — With so much excitement in aquaculture, some farmers might wonder whether raising fish really is practical.
After all, raising a herd of beef or milk cows, a barn full of poultry or swine is decidedly different than fish. Or is it?
Not so different
Actually, many similarities exist, at least conceptually. Many fish farmers […]
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio — Most Ohioans know how to catch a fish. A line and reel, a bobber, a farm pond and a bucket full of night crawlers or crawdads and even the novice can be successful.
But a growing industry in the state promises to produce as many or more fish than can be caught, […]
Your barn shoes and boots (and hands) could bring food-borne disease pathogens into farmhouse.
Farmers will learn to gross $90,000 per acre at annual conference.
HARRISBURG, Pa. — The Pa. Bureau of Dog Law Enforcement has used authority provided by the new dog law to shut down five of the state’s commercial dog breeding kennels March 19.
Scarlet-Maple Farm Kennel in Lancaster County, owned by Daniel P. Esh; the adjoining Twin Maple Farm Kennel in Lancaster County, owned by John E. […]
WASHINGTON — The United States and China have reached an agreement to reopen the Chinese market to U.S. pork and pork products.
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Antibiotic use in livestock has been a source of controversy in the United States, but a Purdue University animal scientist said it can be an effective method of disease prevention and treatment when used correctly.
