Posted by SLN Staff on Feb 28th, 2014 | 34 comments
Farming has become a profitable business not only for traditional farmers and food producers, but for anyone who is enthusiastic about growing food on their own. Farm land owners and cattle owners can benefit from trading and selling cattle for beef, as well as other products, such as milk, hide, and other related farm products. Livestock and farming is gaining popularity not only because of the...
Posted by SLN Staff on Feb 28th, 2014 | 1 comment
Feeding your livestock during spring when the pastures are not fully grown and there are shortages of food or grass on the fields. During these times, it is important to carry fodder to the animals in the barns or in their sheds. Sometimes, due to harsh weather animals cannot graze on fields. The best way to produce fodder for the animals is to grow your own fodder through DIY fodder systems....
Posted by SLN Staff on Feb 23rd, 2014 | Comments Off on Concerns About Droughts And Providing Water To The Livestock
There have been shortages of water and reports of droughts in several regions of the country in the past few years especially during the summer. The effects of droughts can be fatal to the animals, and the droughts usually occur during the time of year when the animals need water the most. When there is a lack of rainfall or water supply, plants can also suffer and increase toxicity and make it...
Posted by SLN Staff on Feb 23rd, 2014 | Comments Off on Managing Pastures For Climate Changes
Ever since we, the human beings, became food producers rather than food gatherers, we have been managing our farm lands and pastures for livestock to graze upon. This has been a fundamental activity for humans in order to sustain livelihood on the planet. There are approximately 14 billion hectors of land available for farming on earth, and among them we use 10% of the ice free land for crop...
Posted by SLN Staff on Feb 16th, 2014 | 1 comment
Fodder system can very useful for feeding any kind of livestock such as cattle, goats, horses, chicken, rabbits, sheep, and so on. Fodder can be grown and brought to the animals as feed and it could be anything that you grow, in addition to what they eat from the pastures as forage. Fodder can be any kind of silage, hay, straws, grass, compressed and palliated feed, and so on. We will discuss a...