Quickly incorporating manure, particularly through low-disturbance injection, can dramatically increase the value of manure nitrogen.
A dragline manure injection toolbar applying manure to a grass hay field. Credit: Charlie White
Manure is a valuable source of the macronutrients nitrogen (N), phosphorus,...
Midwestern politicians are drumming up support for increased oversight of foreign ownership of US agricultural farmland. At the state and federal level, there are bills seeking to reduce or increase reporting obligations for foreign ownership of farmland. Arkansas even...
The internet is rife with photographs of eggs from chickens and other poultry that have black shells. Are they a trick of the imagination? Poor photographic lighting? Or true poultry eggs with inky shells? If so, which poultry breed...
My neighbour, an absolute treasure of a human being who kept us supplied with ice during our week-long derecho power outage so that we could keep my son’s prescription medication cold, is what I would call a tinkerer. He...
Your dinner table may be more connected to child exploitation than you think. A Los Angeles-based poultry processor just beyond Orange County that supplies household names like Ralphs and Aldi was found employing underage workers in harrowing, dangerous conditions....
Maintaining a backyard poultry flock and witnessing all the family dynamics of Chanticleer and his five hen-wives has been quite the poultry adventure. Each moment, from harvesting the first eggs to my granddaughter naming the first little pullet “Fred”...
Graduate student Ally Milby-Blackledge ’21 is beyond proud to be a part of the Department of Poultry Science in the Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
As a second-generation Aggie, following in the footsteps of a proud former...
Judging from numerous online posts, many people jump into chicken keeping without giving enough thought to what’s involved. As a result, you see lots of posts listing “things I wish I’d known.” Or along the lines of “advice to...
By Abby Schuft, Ph.D., Poultry Extension Educator, University of Minnesota
As an extension educator, I want to ensure you have tools and resources to best support your farming business. Since biosecurity is my expertise and compliance of biosecure protocols is...
By: Rick Stein, Vice President, Fresh Foods, FMI
If two letters sum up what most people are talking about in the food production and retailing business in 2024 it would be A.I. Indeed, the topic of artificial intelligence is on...
