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Daily Cash Grain Bids

Daily cash grain bids from St. Joseph, Atchison, and Kansas City on Yellow and White Corn, Soybeans, Hard and Soft Wheat, and Sorghum.

10 Steps To Successful Farrowing

Ross Kiehne, DVM, and staff at the Swine Vet Center in St. Peter, MN, have compiled a top 10 list of successful farrowing tips: Prepare farrowing rooms. Ensure rooms are warm enough and controls are reset for newly farrowed pigs. Ensure hot boxes are cleaned, dried and disinfected and drying agents are available. Ensure heat lamps are working and adjusted to proper location (at the rear of the crate

10 Craziest Living Things Swallowed By Sharks

Tiger sharks---along with several larger, more aggressive breeds such as the bull shark and great white---have acquired a reputation for gobbling up all sorts of inedible junk. However, when it comes to inspecting the stomach contents of sharks, the tiger shark (aka 'the garbage can of the sea') appears to have the most indiscriminate appetite of the species. In the gruesome roll call that follows, we…

Accessing Land: A Beginning Farmers Guide

by Aaron Newton, CFSA Lomax Farm Manager Today less than 2% of the US population is employed in agriculture and that number has been similarly low for several decades. That means aspiring farmers are less likely to have grown up on a farm and are less likely to have access to family land on which to establish a farm business. Perhaps you are one of these landless, aspiring farmers. You want to go into farming because you want to help provide healthy food…

How Do Horses Have Fun?

If you've ever watched a herd of horses, you've likely seen a few of the herd members kicking it up and having fun. Some horses are more...

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

13 Dog Breeds That Are Overwhelmingly Affectionate

Hemp Seed Has Promising Future as Livestock Feed

Hemp’s lauded potential includes seed as feed, and while research is still in the early stages, experts in both the livestock and hemp sectors are optimistic.

Did You Know? Add an RSS Feed

Did You Know? Add an RSS Feed You can add an RSS feed as a new folder in Zimbra, so you can quickly and easily see new RSS content. To add an RSS feed: 1. Click the gear icon for Mail Folders, and select New Folder. 2. Name the folder, click the Subscribe to RSS/ATOM […]

Creating a seed bank in a few simple steps

Question: How can we better package and store seeds for a long-term, mini seed bank in our homes If there was ever a shortage of ...

Send Seeds for Change

Collect seeds for families who want to start their own gardens.

Is the mustard seed the smallest of all seeds?

No, the mustard seed is not the smallest of all seeds. Jesus was speaking proverbially. That is, He wasn't making a statement of absolute fact but using a proverbial style of communication.

Fight Urban Blight, make some seed bombs!

Spring is Here ish. I think that the weather is turning and we are getting ready for spring. We just planted our lettuce seeds and you should tooWe love these jiffy pellets. They store flat and pop up into a little pot when you ad water. Plant a couple of seeds and you are good to go. These can be planted right in the garden.Beautiful! We call these Crack Pots. You will become addicted to these great little pots and you…

Seed Starting: The Journey from Seed to Seedling

Every spring, garden centers, plant nurseries and hardware stores are filled to the brim with an abundance of beautiful vegetable and flower transplants. While their convenience might be alluring, …

Teaching Seed Saving in the Garden

Jude best teaching methods she evolved by teaching in gardens for 30 years.