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How to make your own Livestock or Animal Feeds

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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

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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.

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How To Sell To Restaurants As A Farmer

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Heres a closer look at whats involved with marketing and selling to restaurants as a farm to help you determine whether its the right fit for your farming operation. This gives you a market for the obscure produce youre dying to grow. Market research lon your ocal restaurants : First things first, do your research.

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Taking Your Chickens’ Eggs to Market

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You have a few choices when it comes to getting your eggs to market. Farmer stands are typically found in places like farmers markets or on the road-side. Some Tips for Effective Farmer Stands: Farm Stand Location: Choose a location that is not only high traffic, but also heavily populated by your target market (i.e.

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Can Virtual Fences Help More Ranchers Adopt Regenerative Grazing Practices?

Civil Eats

This herd, however, is not quite as free-range as it appears. People have been talking about virtual fencing for a long time,” said Juan Alvez, an extension research associate at the University of Vermont’s Center for Sustainable Agriculture, whose expertise includes grazing management, “and now it’s just coming to market.”

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Do chickens deserve better?

Sustainable Food Trust

About once a month, I gulp when I pay £24 or thereabouts for my bird, which justifies its steep price tag because it is reared to the strictest legal ‘traditional’ and truly free-range standard, a slow-maturing variety fed on pasture and cereals, killed at 81 days. There are at least 1,000 intensive poultry units throughout the UK.

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Top 6 Tips to Raise Healthy Layer Chickens

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Also something to note, depending on your market preferences you many not want to feed your chickens soy or corn to address allergies in your customers. may also play into markets where customers are looking at those labels for allergies. If you have overflow, you can expand your egg sales into other markets.