Posted by SLN Staff on Jan 9th, 2014 | Comments Off on New Year’s Resolution Animal Welfare & Farm Animal Care All Year Long
No matter how technically advanced or modern we get, our lives will always depend a whole lot on the environment, agriculture and farm animals. The animal products that we get make a major portion of our food, and we also use several animal products such as leather, ivory, fur, and so on in our daily life. New Year is the perfect time to make a resolution to be nice to animals. Making a few...
Posted by SLN Staff on Dec 11th, 2013 | Comments Off on Livestock Nutrition and Winter Livestock Management
Winter can be a harsh time for animals, with the freezing rain, slit, snow and rain. While we, the humans are able to cloth ourselves in warm cloths and stay indoors to drink a hot cup of coffee or hot chocolate to keep us warm, the animals on the other hand, must rely on us in order to stay warm and safe and secured for the winter. During the winter months, the livestock and other pet animals...
Posted by SLN Staff on Nov 21st, 2013 | 1 comment
Getting the proper feed for your livestock is very important for production of healthy livestock and farm products. Most farmers today have also become environmentally conscious and are inclined towards growing farms with organic and environmentally safe products and methods of farming, rather than conventional farming methods. The modern sustainable farming methods involve minimal use of...
Posted by SLN Staff on Nov 14th, 2013 | 1 comment
The term sustainable agriculture refers to methods of farming in which the environment is not disturbed or harmed. When we produce food in sustainable methods we do not disturb the ecological balance in the environment and we do not add any harmful chemicals or toxic compounds into the nature, meaning all the elements in the sustainable method of farming is derived from organic compounds. In...
Posted by SLN Staff on Oct 29th, 2013 | Comments Off on Sustainable Organic Farming – A Better Way Of Livestock Production
We have heard the old saying that “we are what we eat.” This saying has a great significance because what we eat has a great impact on how we live. It is closely related to our health and environment. In recent years, there has been an increased demand for food that is ethically produced and also sustainable. Along with an increase in the amount of organically grown farm lands around the world...