I remember having to use an outhouse until we moved into our brand new house in December 1957 when I was 6. I had learned a bit about indoor facilities in my short life.

Haywood Soil and Water Conservation District understands the frustration that comes with busting ice multiple times a day, just to ensure livestock have a drinking resource to stay healthy and ...

Teagasc guidelines recommend that suckler cows need up to 90l/day, weanlings need 20-25l/day, finishing cattle need 35-60l/day, and animals on ad-lib meals need up to 70l/day. If cattle have had a ...

Hollingsworth was pronounced dead at the scene. "An investigation into the incident shows that Hollingsworth had entered the bull pin of his farm to ensure the cattle’s water source hadn’t frozen up," ...

Research by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln recommends that beef cattle need about 1 gallon of water for every 100 pounds of body weight. But lactating or growing cattle may need twice that amount.

Kregg’s grandparents purchased the farm in 1943. Even then, it was evident that creativity and ingenuity were essential to meet the water needs of the farm’s livestock. Kregg’s family was very ...

LIVESTOCK owners are being reminded to look for signs of blue-green algae when inspecting farm dams, troughs and other water sources, particularly during the warmer months, when algal blooms are more ...

If there is no natural or constructed windbreak near a water source, a quick and simple one can be made by placing a line of round bales of straw or low-quality hay where cattle can bed down.

Aristoteles Historia animalium, D'A. W. Thomson (Oxf. Univ. Press, Bk. 8 (7), 596, a, 1949). Schmidt-Nielsen, B., Schmidt-Nielsen, K., Houpt, T. R., and Jarnum, S. A ...

Agriculture Victoria says farmers should have a plan in case a blue-green algal bloom impacts their primary livestock drinking water supply. Photo by Djembe Archibald Livestock owners should look for ...

An investigation by the Forest Practice Board (FPB) discovered a need for better documentation and enforcement practices by the Ministry of Forests’ range staff. A release from the FPB said ...