Sentences with phrase «farmers feed grains»

I know farmers feed grains and starches to cows pigs etc. to fatten them up.

Not only do the farms raise pigs in a natural way in open pens, but also the farmers feed them grain they farm themselves, which allows for higher - quality, well - monitored feed free of animal byproducts that might contaminate the pigs.

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It said preliminary results of a trade inquiry had found that U.S. sorghum, a grain used as animal feed and in liquor distilling, was sold at improperly low prices that hurt Chinese farmers.

The company started in 1922 when eight farmers pooled together to purchased a railcar full of grain to feed their livestock.

Previously, the spent grain that is left over after being boiled to make beer was sold to dairy farmers to feed their cows.

Arable farmers are urging dairy farmers to ease up on feeding their cattle imported palm kernel expeller (PKE) in favour of New Zealand - grown grains.

My only concern as I started to consume goat milk to make my own kefir and yogurt is that the milk despite being from a good farmer is fed grains and the Organic non GMO grass fed Whey protein from cow were fed grass as well.

The rise in grain prices makes feed grains more expensive and adds further pressure as desperate farmers who can't support their stock dump cattle on the cheap and depress livestock prices.

Additionally, we also aggressively recycle our brewing byproduct — our spent grain and yeast is sent to local dairy farmers for use as animal feed or soil fertilizers and we've invested in carbon dioxide (CO2) recovery systems that allow us to capture and reuse CO2 for carbonation and other brewery related processes.

To cut costs and increase production, many modern farmers put their cows on feed - lots — a small, industrialized space where they are given grain - based food that is specifically designed to influence the health of the animal.

These chickens are raised by family farmers and eat a coconut - based soy - free feed mixture that has no genetically modified grains (no GMOs!).

Prairie Street Brewing Company even sends spent brewing grains grain to a local farmer to feed livestock.

The farmer we got Emily from had told us that if we fed her a little bit of grain every morning at the same time, it was quite likely that one morning, she'd eat it, find a quiet spot and start labor within the hour.

Since grass doesn't grow year - round in most of the United States, feeding grains like corn to cattle help farmers and ranchers raise a consistent, year - round supply of great - tasting beef.

Farmers hardly need them given world demand for food and feed grains.

A generation of extremely efficient farmers increasingly sees irrigation as a nonviable alternative while mulling over a switch from water - intense cotton and wheat to rain - fed sorghum and grains

Often, I can find quality meats and organ meats from local farmers and just make sure that the animal was grass - fed, raised on pasture and (if possible) not given grains or antibiotics.

My only concern as I started to consume goat milk to make my own kefir and yogurt is that the milk despite being from a good farmer is fed grains and the Organic non GMO grass fed Whey protein from cow were fed grass as well.

Farmers don't feed their cattle fat to make them fat, they feed them grains to make them fat.

Next, Australian cattle farmers are increasingly turning to sprouted grain as a replacement for standard grain feed.

Before the advent of industrial agriculture, farmers typically soaked crushed grain in hot water before feeding it to poultry and hogs.

In the late 1800s, a farmer by the name of C.W. Bloomhall noticed that when his animals were fed table scraps fermented with sour milk, they stayed healthier than animals fed grains alone.

Although English life was beginning to change with the gradual development of cities, the economy was still mostly agrarian in the 1200s, with 90 % of the population (estimated to be around four million people in 1300 AD) making their living off the land, either as farmers (growing wheat for personal use or other grain crops to feed livestock) or herders (mostly sheep and goats).

So the farmer began feeding them grain.

The initial work has also been done for a weaver who runs a small flock of colored sheep, a farmer storing feed grain in his barn, a flock - owner in wolf territory, a recreational musher, a rabbit hunter, and a pet owner with an interest in any of the characteristics of the herding, guarding, terrier, working, or hound dogs; what remains is to find just the right breed to match the lifestyle and personality of the owner.

With little new grassland to support expanding beef and dairy herds, farmers started feeding their animals more grain supplemented with soybean meal in order to produce more beef and milk.

All but the hardiest grain crops were destroyed, forcing farmers to kill their animals as they could not feed them.

The dry conditions have also impacted New England farmers, as droughts in the Midwest caused feed grain to skyrocket in 2013.

«Even an ordinary staple grain harvest could feed, on the average, ten times as many people as the same area used by shifting farmers,» Smil notes.

But «grass fed» (grass composes the majority of the animal's diet) and «pasture raised» (the animals graze in a pasture for at least part of the day, though they may also be fed grain by the farmer) were not nearly as well understood.