Green Farm » area http://www.3-d-l.com www.3-d-l.com Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:37:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Scales http://www.3-d-l.com/scales/ http://www.3-d-l.com/scales/#comments Sat, 23 Jul 2011 10:23:12 +0000 dmin http://www.3-d-l.com/?p=72 After breeding and taking care your cows, chickens, etc., when its time to sell it, you need a scale. Not just an ordinary scale, some scale are weight in when your cattle is alive.

Livestock scales could be use to help you scaling your cattle, little movement of the cattle doesn’t have a big effect on the scale, and still in a perfect precision.

I’m not going to explain how to make your cattle heavier, cause I do believe that you got the answer already. But I’d like to share about how to maintain your cattle scales. Why because scales are not cheap, and it could safe you more money, just with a good maintenance.

Below are some tips to kept your scale in a good shape.
• Keep your digital Scales hygienic by washing and cleaning your cattle after each weighing scales
• Do not let your scales on continuously, as it will impact on the work of load cell.
• Although some scales have a good precision scale even when the cattle moves, but better kept them calm.
• Use a power stabilizer, in case you have jumping voltage near your area.
• Tera / Calibration scales once a year minimum.

Hope those tips help you out.

]]> http://www.3-d-l.com/scales/feed/ 0 Soil Formation and type http://www.3-d-l.com/soil-formation-and-type/ http://www.3-d-l.com/soil-formation-and-type/#comments Mon, 30 May 2011 08:04:59 +0000 dmin http://www.3-d-l.com/?p=70 One important information that farmers should have is understanding the soil, because in soil, plants will grow. During processing the soil, farmers got to know in which type of soil, they could use and also help them to determine the correct plant.

Before we go for further details about the soil type, lets have a look at soil formation process. Its started from the weathering of rocks, weathering both the physical and chemical weathering. From this weathering process, the rocks will become soft and change its composition. At this stage of the weathered rock has not been said to be ground, but as the soil material because it still shows the structure of the parent rock. Try free online dating for Gothic here

Weathering process continues until the soil parent material eventually turn into soil. Well, this weathering process becomes the initial formation of soil. So the factors that encourage weathering also plays a role in soil formation.

Rainfall and sunlight play an important role in the process of physical weathering, the two factors are the climate component. It can be concluded that one of the soil-forming factor is climate. There are several other factors that affect soil formation processes, for examples: organisms, parent material, topography, and time.

There are several great soil groups such as below:
Organosol Soil
These type of soil is derived from organic parent material of swamp forest, has a characteristic brown to black color, hard texture, no structure, consistency is not sticky to slightly sticky, and low nutrient content. This land formed by the process of decay of the remains of swamp plants.

Regosol Soil
These soil are form from a new volcanic ash deposits that have a coarse grain. The spread mainly on the slopes of the volcano area.

Lythosol Soil
Lythosol soil is stony soils with a layer of soil that is not so thick. The material is derived from the type of igneous rock that has not undergone the process of weathering is perfect.

Latosol Soil
Latosol spread in country with wet climates, rainfall over 300 mm / year, and altitude ranges from 300-1000 meters. This soil formed from volcanic rock and then undergo a process of further weathering.

Grumusol Soil
This type is derived from limestone, clay rocks, scattered in the area or subarid subhumid climate, and rainfall of less than 2,500 mm / year.

Andosol soil
These soil type is derived from volcanic ash parent material. The spread in temperate climates with rainfall above 2500 mm / year with no dry months. Generally found in the slopes of the volcanic cone at an altitude above 800 meters. The color of this soil type is generally brown, gray to black.

There are others soil type, but the most important is get more information before deciding.
Sometimes without you expected, you could found an artifacts or other archeological stuff inside the soil, its important to contact the authority for further archeological process, once you found it.
Partners such as cultural resource management Colorado will process your soil for further archeological exploration.

]]> http://www.3-d-l.com/soil-formation-and-type/feed/ 0 Knowing your environment http://www.3-d-l.com/knowing-your-environment/ http://www.3-d-l.com/knowing-your-environment/#comments Mon, 01 Nov 2010 21:36:05 +0000 dmin http://www.3-d-l.com/?p=54 It is important to know your surrounding environment, these will be needed if you want to maximize your farm production. accutane online. The first thing you should know is soil condition, and other element that effecting on it. Soil especially affected by weather, when you got rainy seasons, you’ll got fertile or productive soil. Some plant are also affected by weather, several type of it only live on cold air. Logic Pro 9 + Updates Till 9.1.3 MacOSX.

Instead of that free local weather radar will help you to get recent lightning strikes report around your farm area. These information are needed to keep your live save and also predict the next strike, so that in the future you’ll have your own working calendar.

Now that you known the weather, you could pick several plant for your farm depends on seasons climate. Sort productive plant would be recommended choice if you want to try it. But if you plan focusing on specific plant, then make sure you have the best seed, so that it could last though the weather itself unfriendly.

Some best weather website could be your references to predict your surrounding environment. The more you know about your environment, its one step closer to your productive earning.

]]> http://www.3-d-l.com/knowing-your-environment/feed/ 0 HOW TO START A CATTLE FARM http://www.3-d-l.com/how-to-start-a-cattle-farm/ http://www.3-d-l.com/how-to-start-a-cattle-farm/#comments Fri, 18 Jun 2010 10:24:34 +0000 dmin http://www.3-d-l.com/?p=25 How to Start a Cattle Farm

Things You’ll Need:
Animal care knowledge
Hard work
Start up capital

Instructions
Step 1
Different breeds do better in different climates. Some are better for milking and others for beef production. Find out a breed that does well in your area and suits your business goals.

Step 2
One learns cattle farming by cattle farming, not by reading a book. Consider taking a job on a cattle farm to gain knowledge and experience. You will also learn if the work is right for you. Sometimes people over romanticize the business. Once they spend a couple of weeks on a cattle farm they learn that cattle farming is not their thing. Why is that happen? Its because some of us looking for comfort which you could get in apartment kharkov, but sacrifice is needed when we’re talking about business to build.

Step 3
Acquire land and buy fencing. Be sure that the fencing is heavy enough to stand up to cattle. Make sure there are a few trees on your property to provide shade.

Step 4
Buy the cattle. Buy no more than one bull because they will fight each other. Brand them.

]]> http://www.3-d-l.com/how-to-start-a-cattle-farm/feed/ 0 FARMS AND FARMING http://www.3-d-l.com/farms-and-farming/ http://www.3-d-l.com/farms-and-farming/#comments Fri, 18 Jun 2010 10:22:13 +0000 dmin http://www.3-d-l.com/?p=21 Farms are important to the world. We get nearly all of the food we eat from them. When our country began, most people were farmers. As they learned more about agriculture, farmers began to use science to make their crops grow faster and grow more. Farm animals were grown so that they made more milk or gave more meat. Old machinery became new, time and energy-saving machines.

Today’s farmer knows a lot more about farming than our ancestors did. Farmers need to know about the land, crops, animals, selling the products, managing money, and borrowing money when they need it. Tokyo Escorts

There are two groups of farms: specialized and mixed farms. Specialized farms raise crops or animals that grow well in their area. Farmers would not waste their time and money planting a crop if the climate would not let it grow well. Some examples of crops on a specialized farm are:
Corn Soybeans
Wheat Potatoes
Sugar beets Pineapples
Nuts Cotton
Flowers Christmas trees

Specialized livestock farms include about half of all farms in the United States . Some examples of animals on livestock farms are:
Beef cattle Sheep
Dairy cattle Goats
Hogs/Pigs Poultry
Horses

Some farms are mixed farms because they produce two or more products. The dairy farm we visited produced milk, calves to sell, plus corn, hay, and soybeans that they used to feed the animals.

]]> http://www.3-d-l.com/farms-and-farming/feed/ 0 MILK AND CHEESE http://www.3-d-l.com/milk-and-cheese/ http://www.3-d-l.com/milk-and-cheese/#comments Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:23:23 +0000 dmin http://www.3-d-l.com/?p=23 HOW NOW, HAPPY COW?
Grass Fed Dairy — Milk and Cheese from Grass Fed Cows
On a fairly regular basis, Grinning Planet throws cow pies at “industrial agriculture”—those massive, corporate farming operations—while singing the praises of small farms and sustainable, non-chemical agriculture. It all sounds good: who doesn’t prefer the idea of varied, natural, lush fields to endless miles of genetically engineered corn stalks, and who can’t see that happy barnyard animals are better off than sad creatures trapped in cages, pens, and feed lots.
But deep down, we all must wonder at times whether industrial agriculture is just a natural evolution of farming, and whether without it our farmers would be unable to keep the abundant supply of food coming our way.Not only does the following article answer those questions with a resounding “no,” it’s also a great success story in a corporate-dominated farming world that is increasingly short on happy endings. It comes to us from the Great Lakes Radio Consortium, which has generously granted reprint rights.
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Small Dairy Farms Get Greenbacks From Grazing
by Erin Toner, Great Lakes Radio Consortium
In the retail world, big-box stores have made it tough for small companies to stay in business. That’s also true for agriculture, where the big guys are massive feeding operations that house thousands of cows. Surviving as a small farmer in that world often takes a new way of doing business. Here’s the story of one dairy-farming family that’s found a way to stay in farming, and make a pretty good living….
DOWN ON THE DAIRY FARM
It’s one of those hazy and muggy summer mornings, where the air’s thick enough to soak up the smell of manure and dewy grass. Nearby, cows are swatting flies with their tails, eating grass and relaxing in lush, green pastures. These days it’s a lifestyle most dairy cows never get to experience. Most are confined in big buildings with hundreds or thousands of other milk-making machines (cows).
Howard and Mary Jo Straub didn’t like where dairy farming was going. So about ten years ago, they switched from a farm that warehoused dairy cattle indoors, to something called seasonal rotational grazing. Mary Jo explains how it works.
“The cows get a new paddock or area, and our areas are about five acres, and each day they would get a new five acres of grass to eat. We have 24 paddocks, so every 24 days, they would be back into the same five acres.”
And in those 24 days, rainfall and the cows’ own manure has helped the grass grow back in that first paddock, and then the second, and so on. This is very low-maintenance farming, and low-cost farming.
The Straubs don’t have to buy tons of grain to feed their cows. And they’re not applying pesticides or fertilizer to their pastures as they would on a corn field. They don’t have tons of manure to dispose of, they don’t have loans out on grain-harvesting machinery, and they don’t have to pay lots of employees to feed and manage their animals.
Howard Straub says farming is a lot easier than it used to be, and a lot more lucrative.
“We used to get up and milk, we did a three-time-a-day milking before. We mixed up five loads of feed for different groups of cows. Now we just milk the cows twice a day and when we’re done milking we open the gate and let them out to go eat.”
BUT IS GRASS FED DAIRY PROFITABLE?
Since their costs are so low, the Straubs make between 800 and 1,000 dollars profit on each of their 84 cows. Before, they made around 150 dollars profit per cow.
Howard Straub says grazing has made cattle the chief asset on his farm, instead of a bunch of machines. His cows are healthier because they’re eating grass, like they were meant to do. And because they get lots of exercise, the cattle live longer, produce more milk, and have more calves.
Even though the idea with grazing is that there are sprawling pastures for the cows, it doesn’t require any more land than confined feeding farms. That’s because you have to consider all the land that supports a herd of cattle, says Tom Kriegl, who studies dairy farming at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“You can have a diary operation where the only land that you own is the land that the building sits on that you house cows in, and you might buy all of your feed for those cows and you would not own the land that the feed is grown on. But you actually need that additional land that the feed is grown on even if you don’t own it.”
ROTATIONAL GRAZING AND DAIRY FARMING’S FUTURE
Howard and Mary Jo Straub say they encourage all the young farmers they meet to make the switch to rotational grazing. And it is catching on. The Great Lakes Grazing Network estimates that almost half of all new small and mid-size dairies in the region are using rotational grazing.
Kevin Ogles is a grazing specialist with the Natural Resources Conservation Service. He says grazing is probably the future for all smaller dairy farms. But he says grazing is complicated, with benefits that don’t come immediately.
“The concept is simple. Mastering it—that takes a while. So, once people make the transition after doing it for a few years, that’s when you hear them talk about the economic gain. The quality of life has improved.”At this point, you could call the Straub family master grazers. Since they started ten years ago, Howard and Mary Jo have managed to pay off a 250,000 dollar mortgage. Today, they’re almost debt-free, and they’re able to stop farming for two months in the winter, when they head down to Florida, as Howard says, to take time for the fun things in life. He says that would never have been possible before.
© 2004 Great Lakes Radio Consortium
[Story originally aired on GLRC August 2, 2004]
Ah, that’s a great story. :-)
So, while you contemplate that hot young star sporting the milk moustache, you might also consider buying milk that comes from a family farming operation. It takes a little time examining the labels—after all, they all try to SOUND like they’re old-timey dairy operations. Look for “pasture fed” or “grass fed” on the label. Not even the “organic” label is a guarantee that the milk came from happy cows munching on green grass, though organic is still a good alternate choice if you can’t find milk from grass-fed cows. Sometimes you can even find a brand of milk that is both organic AND grass-fed. Yumm! Moooooo. Yumm! Moooooo…
Publish date: 14-SEP-2004

]]> http://www.3-d-l.com/milk-and-cheese/feed/ 0 BEEF CATTLE PART II http://www.3-d-l.com/beef-cattle-part-ii/ http://www.3-d-l.com/beef-cattle-part-ii/#comments Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:13:32 +0000 dmin http://www.3-d-l.com/?p=5 Beef cattle are raised for their meat.  Cattle farms are very important to the world.  We get veal, beef, hamburger, and hot dogs from beef cattle.  Veal comes from calves and beef comes from older cattle.  We also get leather, glue, soap, and medicine from them.

Cattle are raised all over the world.  In India, people think cattle are holy so they aren’t killed or eaten there.  Some kinds of beef cattle are Aberdeen, Angus, Brahman, Charolais, Herefords, and Polled Herefords.  Farmers pick which breed they want to raise by the climate where they live.  For example, some cattle can be raised in areas where there isn’t too much water.
Male cattle are called bulls and females are called cows.  Steers are males who cannot reproduce.  Young cows are called heifers until they have babies.  Then they are called dams.  The father is called a sire and the baby is a calf.
Most cattle are registered.  When an animal is registered, their ancestors are traced and written down.  This is stored by an organization that keeps track of breeding information.  Cattle get an ear tag when they are registered.  The ancestors of animals are important when farmers do selective breeding.
Cattle are usually kept in pastures where they eat the grass.  When cattle eat, they swallow and then bring the food back up into their mouths to chew again.  This is called cud.  Ranchers [Cattle farmers] know how many cattle can be kept in the pasture before all the grass will be gone.
Calves are born in the spring.  They are watched carefully and given shots so they don’t get diseases.  They get branded with a mark that shows a ranch symbol.  If the cattle wander away from the ranch, this shows people where they belong.
Later in spring the herds are moved to different pastures so that the grass can grow back again.  Ranchers put out salt licks with minerals in them.  These are solid blocks of salt [with minerals] that cattle like to lick.  Farmers will move the herds every three or four weeks.
Just like in cowboy movies, ranchers use horses to herd the cattle from one pasture to another.  Some ranchers use four-wheel drive vehicles.
In fall, the herds will be moved closer to the farm house.  These pastures will be ones that were used in the early spring and will have grown grass again.  Beef cattle are usually sold then.  If cattle are kept over the winter, they go to smaller pastures nearer to the house.  This is so that the rancher does not have to go so far to check on them when it gets cold.  The ranchers will have to feed them when it snows.
Beef cattle are cheaper to raise than dairy cattle because they mostly eat grass.  Dairy farmers need to pay people to help them grow crops to feed their cows and they buy protein to add to the food.  This makes them cost more money.
Calves can be sold to other farmers who raise them in a penned area.  They are fed special food so that they fatten up quickly.  It takes between four to eight months before the calves are ready for the meat-packing plant.  A steer is ready to be sold when it is about one and a half years old.  Ranchers try to sell them at a time that they can get the most money for them.  The animals can be sold to someone who will fatten them up for market or right to a meat-processing plant.

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