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Lowering cow costs leads to improvements

Rising input costs are affecting how all farmers and ranchers look at their operation and for young cattle producers like Josh and Lacey Zuck it becomes very important in how they can continue to grow or if they have to cut back their herd. The couple are raising their twin girls in northeast Iowa near […]

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Elders Springing Heifer Sale tops $4100 at Boyanup | Farm Weekly

Values topped at $4100 at this years Elders Springing Heifer Sale at Boyanup last week and with the top-priced pen of seven PTIC Angus-Friesian heifers syncro AI mated to a Limousin bull to calve from January 20 to February 9, 2023, offered by KS & EN Roberts & Co, Elgin, were Elders Boyanup representative and […]

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Worst ads: Inspired Unemployed among most annoying ads of 2022

What ads gave you headaches in 2022? Ad Standards, an Australian advertising watchdog which manages the complaint resolution process of the self-regulation advertising system in Australia, has revealed the top five ads Aussies hated most – and why. Executive director Richard Bean said it had probed over 250 ads in 2022 that were flagged under […]

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The value of Vitamin A

According to Dr. Greg Hanzlicek, with the Kansas State Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory (KSVDL), Kansas had an unusually high number of stillbirth cases and weak born calves in the spring of 2019. After many laboratory tests, it was concluded that the problem stimmed from a lack of energy, protein, Vitamin A, or combinations of all of […]

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