Hay, especially grass hay, produces heat when it is digested. Anytime you are feeding an animal, whether it's a household pet or livestock, you should always carefully read the label first. Although many grain supplements are labeled for more than one species of livestock, some grain supplements suitable for other livestock should not be fed to horses. Use care when feeding horses Recent calls to the state's Agricultural Chemistry Lab concerning horse illness and death have led me to...

Freeze-damaged alfalfa will come back more quickly if it can be mowed off or shredded about 3 inches or so above the ground, without cutting off any new regrowth that has started, said John Fritz, K-State Research and Extension forage management agronomist. Freeze-damaged alfalfa will come back more quickly if it can be mowed off or shredded about 3 inches or so above the ground, without cutting off any new regrowth that has started, said John Fritz, K-State Research and Extension forage...

Unfortunately, some livestock could not be recalled because they were already on their way to your plate. Late last month, federal officials were doing another round of damage control, this time contacting pork and poultry producers in nine states about melamine-tainted feedstock and culling suspected animals. Milk protein concentrate, which enters the United States as an industrial-grade ingredient to make adhesives and which has never been subject to consumer-safety testing or given...

With the growing concerns over quality pet food, many people are looking for alternatives to the mainstream pet food companies like Alpo and Iams, to ensure the future health of their companions. According to the FDA Web site, a release from the FDA indicated that it cannot confirm the number of pets that have actually been affected by the recall, as "unlike human food, there is not surveillance network for FDA to rely on to confirm cases" of animals affected, and the FDA has to...

The safety of our nation's food supply was called into question recently when pet food ingredients imported from China turned out to be tainted, sickening and killing animals. It's disturbing that the dangerous melamine also made its way into the human food supply when it was used as feed for 3 million chickens raised on Indiana poultry farms. The food czar has no authority to order a recall of a tainted food product. Published May 12, 2007 Used to be that the word "czar" conjured up...