People had flocked to the gathering in hope of news about food aid. But many stepped back when told it was about training on farming maggots for animal feed and garden manure. “People were like, ‘What? These are flies, flies bring cholera’,” Choumumba said. ...
What Is the Most Profitable Agribusiness? According to the United States Department of Agriculture, the top five products in the U.S. are corn, cattle, soybeans, dairy products, and broilers (chickens raised for food).9The most profitable agribusinesses are likely involved in producing, processi...
Once there are no more potential vegetarians left to convert, the offset cost will become the cost of saving animals via political action, improved technology (eg cultured meat), or changes to farming conditions.This dynamic becomes even more interesting if you add the (unjustifiable but ...
Theprofit motive, or the desire to earn profits from business activity, is the driving force of capitalism. It creates a competitive environment in which businesses compete to be the low-cost producer of a certain good in order to gain market share. If it is more profitable to produce a di...
where it has displaced less profitable cattle ranching to the forest frontier, a region where land tenure is contested and land is cheap. While theEU imports 200,000 tonnes of Brazilian beef per year, it importsfive million tonnes of soy– the vast majority of which is counted as deforestatio...
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“In cattle diets, 50 per cent is starch, so starch is a good indicator of how they are using their feed,” Jancewicz said. “The less starch in the manure, the more efficiently they are using starch.” These humble animal droppings tell an important story. When nutrients, such as starc...
This region has a semiarid climate, and for 50 years after its settlement, it supported a low-intensity agricultural economy of cattle ranching and wheat farming. In the early twentieth century, however, it was discovered that much of the High Plains was underlain by a huge aquifer (a rock...
Wendy Has Keen Eye for a Gene; CATTLE: Young Farmer Believes Limousin Breed Is Key to Profitable Suckler Cow ProductionByline: SHEILA COLEMAN Farming EditorWestern Mail (Cardiff, Wales)