Oats are valued for much more than just the grains used in healthy cereals; they are an incredibly versatile crop for farmers. It’s common to grow oats as forage for livestock, supplying excellent nutrition when harvested as hay or silage. Additionally, it’s an ideal high-biomass cover ...
Early shoots of purple asparagus sticking up inside a DIY tomato cage, aka deer cage. You can make these cages pretty much any size you want, but you want them to be a good bit taller than the plants you’re protecting from deer so they can’t reach down into the central opening to ...
“I guess it comes down to whether you have a short-term perspective or a long-term perspective,” he said. “If your perspective is, how much cash I can get in the next two or three years, that makes sense. But if you look at it over a 100- or 200-year period, then ...
500 bales of hay at 55 lbs each, how much milk would this produce from a Holstein and at today’s market value what would be the monetary value of the milk? Reply Cody Oct 29, 2017 at 2:19 am When the milk truck comes do they weight the water and milk together or do you hav...
In dry years they still had to buy hay. Sarah A. Hoyt says: January 12, 2024 at 1:30 pm In the region I grew up in you ACTUALLY can feed a family on veggies, fruit and chicken on an acre. (My family is unduly impressed by my over an acre plot. “Oh, you bought a farm....
" suggestions of other people who might also be my relatives. The problem is I have no idea if those names are accurate, and I don't really know how to confirm them digitally. And AncestryDNA, while interesting, also doesn't give me much to go on that I don't already know. ...
In spring and summer grass grows quickly, brush hogs work too low, drag the ground & kill grass. But how to adjust brush hog height. Let’s find out!
Perhaps they can’t go outside, or stop worrying, or stop checking things or stop washing their hands. They are upset by these thoughts and perceive them to be a problem. A psychotic patient on the other hand has no such insight into their much deeper delusions. They are unaware that ...
I don’t know if you can call our property a “farm.” Wedohave an acre of land in Arizona. Wedoprovide a lot of our own food and we do have lots of poop. Er, animal poop that is. I guess that pretty much qualifies as a farm, wouldn’t you agree?
Donottransition 2 month old birds directly to layer feed – it has too much calcium for birds that aren’t yet laying eggs. From 4 to 5 months old, or at expected age of lay, pullets can move to a layer feed, which maintains a moderate 16-18% protein, but greatly increases calcium...