After 24 hours of heavy rain, farmers are having to make some adjustments with their cattle herds. Floodwaters can cause ...

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources issued a final action on a water-use permit to a 10,000-head cattle operation in Clayton County, following a years-long legal battle with an area environmental ...

You don’t need me or anyone else to tell you that water is important for livestock and all other living things. The necessity of water is common sense, but what tends to fall by the wayside is just ...

Water availability and quality are a big deal for cattle on pasture. In summer, that’s even more the case. Water requirements can double when temperatures increase from 50 to 95 degrees F, according ...

The footpads of geckos have hydrophilic (water-loving) mechanisms that allow the little animals to easily move over ... Optical Fiber Sensor Provides Simple and Sensitive Detection of Arsenic in ...

I am keenly interested in cow depreciation and in fact have written about it in past Grainews columns. It is… With lots of evidence of warmer summers, water access is paramount in most of our eyes.

Teagasc guidelines recommend that suckler cows need up to 90l/day, weanlings need 20-25l/day, finishing cattle need 35-60l/day, and animals on ad-lib meals need up to 70l/day. If cattle have had a ...

I recently discovered a plant buried underneath a shrub on my hillside. It survived these last three years in a small clay pot that was only half-filled with soil! The plant was not in very good shape ...

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