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Thursday, February 16, 2012Print This Page New Beef Technology Adoption ProgrammeIRELAND – A new initiative to encourage cattle farmers to adopt new technologies to improve their beef businesses was launched by Simon Coveney, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, at a ‘Teagasc Profitable Suckling Event’ in Kilkenny on Monday, 13 February. The Beef Technology …
Feb
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(THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER) – Putrajaya could help council tenants buy homes by offsetting their monthly rental against the purchase price instead of borrowing RM1.5 billion from the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) to set up a new loan scheme. Pakatan Rakyat (PR) leaders also suggested that the federal government could charge the unqualified home buyers a …
Feb
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The Purdue Extension Putnam County office moved a couple of months ago and is now located at 12 Central Square in the same building as Pershing Accounting and PNC Bank just northeast of the Courthouse square. The staff invites everyone to come see us at our new location during an upcoming open house on Monday, …
Feb
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LISSIE, Texas – (AP) — Five generations of Ronald Gertson’s family have tilled the claylike soil of southeast Texas to grow rice, confident that no matter how fickle Mother Nature was, there would be one constant: water to irrigate their crop. For the first time since Gertson’s great-grandfather made his way from Denmark through Kansas …
Feb
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ALBANY, GA – Drought. On the farm, you expect it to have an effect on the prices of cotton or peanuts, but cattle? Yes, cattle. Heath Hardy of Carroll's Country Sausage and Meats said, “the last few years, we've been having an issue with the drought.” The most obvious example is in Texas, where the …
Feb
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Barring injury or some unforeseen disaster, the next two months will see Ulster’s Rory Best surpass Keith Wood’s record as Ireland’s most capped hooker. Wood – who celebrates his 40th birthday today – wore Ireland’s number two jersey on 58 occasions. To date Best, now 29, has 54 appearances to his credit and with five …
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SHAWN MCAVINUE JOHN HAWKINS/Fairfax NZ HUNGRY HOLSTEINS: Spurhead dairy farmer Nathan Chilton and his prizewinning cows June, left, and Patsy are ready to represent Southland in the national On-Farm challenge. Patsy and June are showstoppers because they are wide and hungry. The pair are 5-year-old holstein dairy cows with a North American genetic base. Dairy …
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January 23rd, 2012 Animal rights activists are all a bunch of law-breaking terrorists who blatantly abuse the animals they profess to care for. Yes, that’s right good people, don’t believe the rhetoric they put out about caring for animals and trying to make the world a better place. In reality, they’d be more than happy …
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The Kentucky cattle and calf inventory for Jan. 1, 2012 was estimated at 2.15 million. Advertisement Total inventory was down 40,000 head from last year. Both beef cows and milk cows showed a decrease from the previous year’s level. Beef and milk replacement heifers decreased, while other heifers showed a slight increase in inventory. Steers …