In many countries students who leave high school have no understanding of how to manage their money. Why is this case? What can be done to improve students' understanding of how to manage personal finance? Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge ...
Dairy farms have special maternity areas for cows that are ready to give birth. For example, theBateman family in Utahbuilt state-of-the-art, enclosed and temperature-controlled maternity barns for their cows and calves. Daylight saving time starts Nov. 5, and while many of us turn our cloc...
Milton Orr looked across the rolling hills in northeast Tennessee. “I remember when we had more than 1,000 dairy farms in this county. Now we have less than 40,” Orr, an agriculture adviser for Greene County, Tennessee, told me with a tinge of sadness. That was six years ago. Today...
That sort of volume and production has made Prairie Farms the 15th-largest dairy company in the U.S. and one of the 200-largest cooperatives in the world. The Edwardsville, Illinois-based company operates more than 100 distribution facilities and 45 manufacturing plants with around 5,700 employe...
How many cows does it take to supply your dairy desires? Much less than one, actually. Cows are extremely productive, with 6-7 gallons of milk per day on modern farms. Even after accounting for things like cheese being a 10x concentration of milk and 6-7 gallons being only the ...
Human beings love dairy. It has been a part of our diet for centuries, and is used in many recipes in many cultures across the globe. Dairy is important to us. In fact, we are actually hardwired to have a weakness for the stuff, genetically programmed to enjoy things like milk and ch...
The article offers suggestions for bringing diversification to dairy farms. Topics discussed include the advice for keeping capital for re-investment and coping up with technical developments, several diversification options for a dairy business such as passive diversification and core business ...
Related to the increased indebtedness of the New Zealand dairy sector, banks have already put in place stricter lending requirements for dairy farmers (Reserve Bank of New Zealand Te Putea Matua, 2016). Although there is uncertainty around whether New Zealand dairy farms will move from family ...
Making the switch to alternative milks from dairy milk can be a real factor in lowering your everyday CO2 emissions. The proliferation of alternative milks leads to a question of —which is the most sustainable alternative milk? What is the most sustainable milk to use for a matcha latte?
"We know that so far it has been mostly indairy cattle. It will be important to understand if there is spillover in meat cattle," he says. "The way we prevent larger outbreaks is by monitoring, carefully isolating people as soon as they get the infection from animals, limiting the numbe...