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How Drones Came to Your Local Farm

Relatively cheap drones with advanced sensors and imaging capabilities are giving farmers new ways to increase yields and reduce crop damage.

How to Use Complete Feeds to Stretch Your Hay Supply

Fiery blazes, drought, and poor growing conditions have made hay difficult to find and expensive to buy in many locations throughout the nation. These conditions have left horse owners with the difficult task of finding an affordable source of quality hay

Researchers look into more ways of turning food waste into good livestock feed

A lot of perfectly good food goes to waste every day, especially in developed countries. Researchers believe that some of that food waste can be converted into animal feed for livestock, a biological means of recycling food into a fresh supply.Redirecting otherwise wasted food to animals would r

Fly Farms to Provide Alternative Protein for Animal Feeds

What…A fly farm? Yep that’s right, AgriProtein has partnered with Christof Industries to build up to 25 fly farms a year up-cycling organic waste into insect protein for animal feeds. T…

Hemp for animal feed: Economic potential waits out legal maneuvering

Given hemp's new legal status, many farmers and livestock producers want to explore cannabis for animal feed and the research that suggests its nutritional and developmental benefits. But they're facing market and legal uncertainties that are

Are Insect Farms The Urban Farms We Need To Feed Cities?

We need more practical ways to feed cities besides shipping in food. The trick is to get a whole city to actually want to eat bugs.

6 New Mexico Farms You Need to Know About

There is a rich history of farming and agriculture in New Mexico, dating back to the 1500s. Although the state is primarily known for production of the three sisters, beans, corn and squash, (and of c...

Balancing cattle rations using Pearson Squares

What do ranchers need to know before balancing cattle rations using Pearson Squares? A Pearson Square is a tool that can be used to calculate the portion of two feeds

Pick Your Own Sunflowers at Manfredi Farms

Pick Your Own Sunflowers at Manfredi Farms in Westerly Photo: Joy Cordio Pick Your Own for $10 A Bunch and Help the Bahamas Recover from Hurricane Dorian Sunflowers are undoubtedly some of the happ…

5 ways dairy farms sequester carbon

Dairy farmers have many tools that allow them to either sequester or mitigate the emissions of greenhouse gases like carbon. Here are five.

Take your pick: It’s the season for pick-your-own farms

Check out our tips to get the most out of a pick-your-own farm experience.

Livestock Producers Can Track Their Costs and Insurance Options

The April Ag Decision Maker includes uptated livestock budget and insurance tools compiled by Iowa State University Extension and Outreach.

Farmers trained to make animal feed as remedy to poor quality products

Adulterated feed can kill or stunt the growth of poultry and animals

6 Shenanigans You Can’t Pass up at Schnepf Farms

Abandoned mines could become the farms of the future

Academics are looking at how abandoned mines and tunnels could be turned into farms to help feed the growing global population.

How farms have become an oasis for campers looking to escape

As pandemic-weary travellers leave cities in droves, searching for serenity and space in the bush, farmers are signing up as hosts for an extra source of income.

The man who farms tables and chairs

It takes Gavin Munro six years to grow a full crop of willow furniture on his Derbyshire furniture farm.