The term "Bud Box" describes the kind of handling facility preferred by low-stress livestock handling expert Bud Williams. By moving animals quietly and standing in the right spot, you can quickly and easily move animals into a chute for treatment, weighing or loading. Here's information on how to build your own, including a video showing how it works.
This is the season when spring, long-awaited, reminds us that with every season there is some discomfort. So, though we may damn mud when we're stuck in it, here's a poem to remind us why we love it too.
Dairy farmers wanted to know how to implement this practice on their farms the authors took on the task of checking out how it works for farmers using it in Pennsylvania and New York.
In Part II of this series summarizing Bob Budd's lessons learned, he describes how understanding and using an animal's natural behavior makes it easier to move them and use them to improve landscapes and create habitat.
You've got the tools right there are the ends of your arms to help you figure out when your lamb is ready for market. Here NCAT's Dave Scott tells you how to use them.
Yes, you can spread your manure over your pastures and create fertile soil. But if you're thinking of diversifying what you produce, perhaps you want to collect a little for your own use, and turn it into vanilla!
Samsung Electronics announced Eco Trees, a smart, eco-friendly air purifier that runs on solar energy, for a richer, sustainable, healthier life.
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Japanese researchers find a new use for excess sewage sludge: they turn it into MEAT! Is this another option for how we might feed the 9 billion people who will inhabit our planet in the future?
