HerdStar's BinTrac VMI provides timely and highly accurate feed bin levels as well as predicting feed disappearance rates to avoid expedited delivery fees as well as a feed outage. Tom Baarsch will demonstrate the patented VMI web based software that remotely monitors hourly feed usage, computes reorder points, produces feed orders and confirms feed deliveries. It will not only improve feed mill logistics and efficiency, but also monitor and manage feed out events caused by feed bridging...

The FDA report follows a scare over melamine-contaminated pet food that was blamed for causing the deaths of an unknown number of dogs and cats in the United States. Fish farms have struggled to improve their own image amid concerns about pollution and complaints about the flavor of the products they produce. The earlier fears over contaminated feed are resurfacing concerns over aquaculture. On harvest day at American Gold Seafood company in Puget Sound, thousands of fat Atlantic salmon...

Tennessee beef, forage field day scheduled June 14 subscribe. DiPietro, UT vice-president for agriculture, and Ken Givens, commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Agriculture, participants will assemble into groups to attend morning sessions that address how to select a commercial squeeze chute for cattle management, hay barn plans and planning, and profitable hay production. DiPietro, UT vice-president for agriculture, and Ken Givens, commissioner of the Tennessee Department of...

Fruits, nuts, grapes and berries: Spring irrigating, fertilizing and weed spraying of orchards and vineyards along with other cultural practices continue. Fresh market and freezer strawberry harvest continues, along with cherry and blueberry harvest. Supplemental feeding of livestock along with nutrients continues. Movement of out-of-county livestock off rangeland is complete. Market and processing tomato transplant, sweep potato, cantaloupe, honeydew, and freezer bean planting continues....

Hay shortage now means less food for livestock in the winter, which will lead many farmers to use supplemental feed for their animals. The farm raises around 100 acres of alfalfa hay, which Cottrill said will suffer very little from the drought-like conditions. The lack of moisture in the soil prevented them from telling where the tractor had been because the soil down to the till depth is the same color as on the surface. He delayed planting nearly a third of his corn crop until this...