Cattle Handling Facilities
Cattle handling facilities are an essential part of any cattle operation. If well-built and functional, they contribute much to the easy, safe and rapid handling of cattle. Good handling facilities need not be overly expensive. It pays to invest in quality for some of the critical areas such as pressure [...]
It is important that we influence these changing times in cattle marketing. That is the reason for our focus on the fine-tuning of Triple C genetics. Not just EPD’s as once thought to be the whole answer. Now carcass data, TI, API, and Stay have become important measurements to each of you in planning your [...]
Grazing is very much at the heart of everything we do on the farm. Grazing management is given top-priority. Many people call what we do “Extended Grazing” as our grazing season is considerably longer than that of many “conventional” farms. However this is a term that I no longer prefer to use [...]
My name is Jason Rankin and I would like to extend to you a very warm “virtual” welcome to our farm which I farm in partnership with my father.The farm is situated near the top of the Ards Peninsula in County Down, Northern Ireland. Being surrounded by water on three sides (to the [...]
Blanketed calves have been proven to stay closer to their mothers during storms. These grey, wool blankets are designed to minimize any wool smell and the open-ended cover guarantees that cows will nurture their blanketed calves day and night.
Buffalo County offers a quality of life that is unsurpassed by any region. The county offers affordable housing, small communities, little crime, an excellent public education system, close access to universities, abundant outdoor recreational opportunities and numerous cultural experiences.
Agriculture remains the single largest industry in Buffalo County with revenues exceeding $90 million dollars. Dairy leads the way with $70 million of dairy related receipts. Supporting industries for dairy are excellent.
Buffalo County supports an excellent transportation system with 148 miles of state highway, 318 miles of blacktop county roads and 350 [...]
Buffalo County is the 65th largest dairy county in the nation. There are 5 different manufacturing companies that make cheese and 7 milk plants that purchase milk within a 30 mile radius of the county borders.
Transportation costs average about 35 cents per hundredweight with all dairies subsidizing that cost. It is not [...]
Cheese lovers may soon be able to enjoy Australian specialty cheese made with pure jersey milk and the boundless passion of the Australian cheesemaker idol announced in Melbourne on Monday night February 6. Erica Dibden, a dairy farmer from Tilba Tilba on the far South Coast of NSW, was awarded the 2006 [...]
A national survey of Australian dairy farmers will give them an opportunity to provide vital input into an industry “health report” and influence policies for the future.Dairy Australia will seek the views of more than 1300 farmers between now and March 24 for inclusion in the industry’s annual planning cycle.The phone-based survey was first conducted [...]
