are not peculiar to it, but are common to all animals, including man. The trait is often manifested, and sometimes in remarkable ways, in dogs, horses, and cattle. In man it is frequently illustrated in the affection known as "homesickness." The ability which animals display under its infl...
20 Napa Valley Fast Facts: What every wine lover must know about Napa Valley. What’s the deal with the gold wire netting on wine bottles? by Elaine SchochSeptember 20, 2023 Why do some wine bottles from Rioja have gold netting? The short answer, it was a pre-tech way to try to ...
Yet this was also a time of paranoia. People in the Western Hemisphere read about the Soviet Union, flying saucers, the H-bomb, and the space race in all the newspapers. They blackballed actors and writers who were thought to have a connection, however tenuous, with Communism, and they d...
It is assumed God approved everything written about God in the Bible. The problem is God isn’t always portrayed as loving.See here.God supposedly orders Israel to commit hundreds of atrocities in the OT –“… put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels an...
It was introduced to the United States at the end of the eighteenth century. Today most of it is frozen for commercial and institutional use; only about a quarter of the crop is sold fresh. What is this strange plant? Click Here for Today’s Quiz Answers...
A longitudinal survey of African animal trypanosomiasis in domestic cattle on the Jos Plateau, Nigeria: prevalence, distribution and risk factors Trypanosomiasis is a widespread disease of livestock in Nigeria and a major constraint to the rural economy. The Jos Plateau, Nigeria was free from tsetse...
Diana Natalicio has collected a few hundred UTEP tops over the decades—and has something to say about each of them. By Robert Moore The National Podcast of Texas| April 29, 2019 UT Chancellor James B. Milliken: “Higher Education Is More Important Now Than It’s Ever Been in the Hist...
This was the time of year that extra cattle would be killed for food (probably in the form of sacrifice at times) to get them through the winter. It was Samhains associations with death and decay which cause it’s transformation into the Halloween of today. Though the reason this was imp...
I’ve written about many of these places but never about Hawaii. We’ve spent many days on most of Hawaii’s islands, and in the 1980’s I even opened an office on Oahu and spent a week each month there. Once, during a trade show in Honolulu, Prudy, wistfully eyeing the swaying ...
Ever wondered about the technique of in-vitro fertilization (IVF)? Wondered how it can be incorporated into your cattle operation? If you currently use frozen embryo transfer, you may already be using an IVF embryo. For this post, we are going to break down the IVF process in beef cattle...