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Livestock Management Systems

Agric4profits

Traditional farmers generally manage animals on a free-range basis, which is inexpensive and requires minimal care, allowing more time to focus on crop production. However, advanced… Read More » Livestock Management Systems

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How to make your own Livestock or Animal Feeds

Farmbrite

Animal Feed Recipes for Chicken, Cattle, Sheep, Goat, and Pig Feed Raising livestock can be a rewarding experience, whether you're doing it for fun, food, or as a full-time agricultural business. In this post, we've created some recipes or a cookbook and a step-by-step guide to making livestock feed for your herd.

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Pro Tips for Livestock Health, Care, and Wellness

Farmbrite

Livestock health and wellness can directly impact the productivity, yields, product quality, and overall safety of livestock and the community served by your farm. 6 Key Livestock Wellness Management Practices Measure & monitor the overall wellness of your herd/flock/etc. safe and well.

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LIVESTOCK mRNA

The Lunatic Farmer

s DEFENDER has done us all a wonderful service by shining the light on the plethora of pharmaceutical efforts to create mRNA vaccines for livestock. The important thing to realize is that the popular backlash against off-the-shelf livestock antibiotic use came to a halt in 2021; these medications now require a veterinarian’s prescription.

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Holding onto Farmland, One Land Trust at a Time

Modern Farmer

Without farmland to grow crops or ranchland for livestock, we don’t eat. Since 2018, they have been producing and selling free-range chicken eggs and meat on the farm’s idyllic 40 acres. Conserving farmland underpins a stable local food supply. Without agriculture, jobs are lost; 22.1 percent of the total US employment.

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Eating to save the planet: How hard could it be?  

Sustainable Food Trust

The challenge, for most meat-eaters out there, would be the significant reduction in the amount of pork, chicken and eggs available (due to the move away from permanently housed flocks and herds that are fed grain and imported protein feeds, to free-range, high-welfare systems). Complex food labelling also adds to the confusion.

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How To Sell To Restaurants As A Farmer

Farmbrite

Dont shy away from free samples Buying wholesale is the easier option for most chefs, so youll need to convince them your product is worth the change in routine. Free samples speak louder than words, so bring along a dozen free-range eggs or that almost-too-crisp arugula to your prospective meetings.