They were among those who not only came for the day s speakers and demonstrations, but their children participated as well. From how to market goat meat to how to spot diseases and parasites, there was something educational for everyone, including a catered lunch of goat meat and barbeque. The all-day event took place at Rawhide Ridge Farm in Cascades, one of the largest meat goat farms in the state with more than 250 goats on a 150 plus acre site. Horsley, his wife, Tonya, and their two...

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Food is cached during periods of abundance and eaten during periods of scarcity. In the western portion of its range, fox squirrels have grayish and grizzled upper parts, with a distinctive orange tinge. Now living on the prairie, squirrel scoldings were a distant memory until just the other day when I saw an eastern fox squirrel (Sciurus niger) just east of town. Food is carried in the jaws, a hole is dug with the forepaws and the food is buried below the surface or covered with leaf...

He estimated the machine was about 10-feet tall and about 10-feet long. Nettleton said the fire started in a paddle dryer that is used in the manufacture of a poultry feed additive. It makes chemicals for use in animal feed additives, human pharmaceuticals and fine chemicals, according to the company's Web site. in the plant's drying department, said Joe Nettleton, vice president of operations and site director. Nettleton said the plant's automatic fire suppression system was activated and...

Making ethanol from corn does not mean we feed less corn to animals, just in a different form. Power is also saved because the distillers grains from the ethanol production process are not dried; wet distillers grains will be fed directly to the cattle in the feedlot. Crop rotation, using livestock manure and old alfalfa stands for fertilizer, and spring plowing has given way to no-till, GPS application of fertilizers and chemicals, buffer strips and carbon credits. All can be fed to...