Livestock
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Drovers Newsletter published a story this week on the use of prescribed fire to manage grazing land. They note that “when used correctly, fire can improve habitat for a variety of wildlife species, forage for cattle, and conditions for oak regeneration among other things.” But you need to consider a variety of factors carefully well…
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If you’ve been watching the livestock news or reading this blog, you know how devastating recent wildfires in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas have been to livestock there. Here is a news release from Texas A&M about the critical fire weather conditions that are currently present in western Texas. Critical fire weather conditions present over Western…
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Here is an interesting short photo essay on dairies in the Northeast who had to deal with the impacts of the blizzard last week. Roads kept milk trucks from getting through, electricity went out, and some barns collapsed from the weight of the snow on their roofs. You can view it at https://spark.adobe.com/page/HUG59oEPa6kzj/.
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Drovers Newsletter published a special report collecting information on the impacts of recent wildfires that have devastated parts of Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas. You can read several related reports on the damage to herds and pastures as well as relief efforts underway to help the affected ranchers by following the link here.
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With the cold weather we’ll be experiencing later this week, following weeks of above normal temperature, I thought this article on cold damage to alfalfa might be useful. Frost damage is most likely to occur if temperatures get to 24 F or below, which could happen in northern parts of the region on Wednesday and…
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A number of wildfires in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas have caused significant loss of livestock as well as killing several ranchers in Texas, according to reports in Drovers Newsletter this week. According to Reuters, “fast-moving wildfires that burned through nearly 2 million acres (809,380 hectares) of Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas this week have devastated ranches…
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One of my Facebook friends posted a link today to this 2010 OxFam study of the impacts of changing climate on agriculture in Ethopia. Upon skimming it, I was amazed at the detailed analyses the authors made of several different crops and how they are affected by currently observed trends in climate as well as…