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		<title>Learning Chemistry for improvement</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re asking people outside about what are the most difficult lessons, definitely they will answer either chemistry or physics. Although this two, especially chemistry is element you should know to improve your farm skills. Every ingredients inside your soil, fertilizer, etc.
Chemistry Answers your problem to improve your farm production, choosing the best ingredients based [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you&#8217;re asking people outside about what are the most difficult lessons, definitely they will answer either chemistry or physics. Although this two, especially chemistry is element you should know to improve your farm skills. Every ingredients inside your soil, fertilizer, etc.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.tutorvista.com/chemistry-help" target="_blank">Chemistry Answers</a> your problem to improve your farm production, choosing the best ingredients based on your environment, its going to help you more.<br />
<span id="more-45"></span></p>
<p>Either <a href="http://www.tutorvista.com/chemistry-help" target="_blank">Chemistry problem</a> nor <a href="http://www.tutorvista.com/physics-help" target="_blank">Physics problem</a>, usually the difficulties coming from language. Since both of it using certain symbols and measurement formula, for some people its not understandable so easily. Willingness to understand is the key important to get to know deeper.</p>
<p>Some research says that a group of people who like physic and or chemistry, start it from attractive chemistry of physics project. Such as adding mentos mint in some diet soda, which will make temporary volcano. These activities will attract people and make them curious about it. <a href="http://www.tutorvista.com/chemistry-help" target="_blank">Chemistry help</a> and or <a href="http://www.tutorvista.com/physics-help" target="_blank">physics help</a> from educated person or teacher or other references will help you out to get chemistry or <a href="http://www.tutorvista.com/physics-help" target="_blank">physic answers</a>.</p>
<p>After you know at least basic of chemistry and physics, every step you took ahead will be based on your knowledge, and only a matter of time you will succeed on your farm business.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 06:37:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forest management in an integrated production is to obtain an optimal result by considering policies for sustainable harvesting of forests can be maintained. In the application of Linear Algebra 1, forest management that is based on a policy by considering the sustainability of forest harvesting is harvesting model that can be justified. This model set [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Forest management in an integrated production is to obtain an optimal result by considering policies for sustainable harvesting of forests can be maintained. In the application of Linear <a href="http://www.tutornext.com/algebra-1-help" target="_blank">Algebra 1</a>, forest management that is based on a policy by considering the sustainability of forest harvesting is harvesting model that can be justified. This model set the initial configuration of the forest must be equal to the final configuration after deducting harvesting and forest plus the new seedlings. Initial configuration consists of forest plants with different age groups in early growth, while the final configuration consisted of forest plantations in the age group that remains after a period of growth.<span id="more-39"></span></p>
<p>Mathematically by letting a non-harvest vector x, the matrix will be obtained by non-harvest growth of vector Gx, and letting the harvest vector y, obtained by matrix Ry seedling crop replacement vector must equal the non-crops vector x in the beginning of growth, thus Gx &#8211; y + Rx = x. Optimal results can be cultivated is determining <a href="http://www.3-d-l.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/exponen.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-40" title="exponen" src="http://www.3-d-l.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/exponen.jpg" alt="" width="75" height="26" /></a><br />
with i is the age group, is the economic value of pine on the i group, and Yi is a lot of his  pine is harvested at the i group.</p>
<p>This research aims to (1) discusses the basic theory of forest management with harvesting model that can be justified, (2) defines the parameters associated with the management of pine forests and determine the optimal solution in a pine forest overlapping, and (3) interpret the results of mathematical models obtained into the pine forest management issues</p>
<p>The data obtained were used to determine the matrix of pine forest growth in order to get the initial configuration of the forest. Also taking into account the economic value of pine and a lot of pine in a forest  can be determined which age groups should be harvested with the results of the optimal forest production.</p>
<p>Those were some example of <a href="http://www.tutornext.com/algebra-1-help" target="_blank">algebra 1 help</a> and <a href="http://www.tutornext.com/algebra-1-help" target="_blank">algebra 1 answer</a> in terms of optimizing the production using mathematics function, specifically <a href="http://www.tutornext.com/algebra-2-help" target="_blank">algebra 2</a>.</p>
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		<title>DAIRY COWS PART II</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:20:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dairy Cows
Traditional small dairies, located primarily in the Northeast and Midwest, are going out of business. They are being replaced by intensive &#8216;dry lot&#8217; dairies, which are typically located in the Southwest U.S.
Regardless of where they live, however, all dairy cows must give birth in order to begin producing milk. Today, dairy cows are forced [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dairy Cows<br />
Traditional small dairies, located primarily in the Northeast and Midwest, are going out of business. They are being replaced by intensive &#8216;dry lot&#8217; dairies, which are typically located in the Southwest U.S.<br />
Regardless of where they live, however, all dairy cows must give birth in order to begin producing milk. Today, dairy cows are forced to have a calf every year. Like human beings, cows have a nine-month gestation period, and so giving birth every twelve months is physically demanding. The cows are also artificially re-impregnated while they are still lactating from their previous birthing, so their bodies are still producing milk during seven months of their nine-month pregnancy. With genetic manipulation and intensive production technologies, it is common for modern dairy cows to produce 100 pounds of milk a day — ten times more than they would produce naturally. As a result, the cows&#8217; bodies are under constant stress, and they are at risk for numerous health problems.<span id="more-17"></span></p>
<p>Approximately half of the country&#8217;s dairy cows suffer from mastitis, a bacterial infection of their udders. This is such a common and costly ailment that a dairy industry group, the National Mastitis Council, was formed specifically to combat the disease. Other diseases, such as Bovine Leukemia Virus, Bovine Immunodeficiency Virus, and Johne&#8217;s disease (whose human counterpart is Crohn&#8217;s disease) are also rampant on modern dairies, but they commonly go unnoticed because they are either difficult to detect or have a long incubation period. A cow eating a normal grass diet could not produce milk at the abnormal levels expected on modern dairies, and so today&#8217;s dairy cows must be given high energy feeds. The unnaturally rich diet causes metabolic disorders including ketosis, which can be fatal, and laminitis, which causes lameness.<br />
Another dairy industry disease caused by intensive milk production is &#8220;Milk Fever.&#8221; This ailment is caused by calcium deficiency, and it occurs when milk secretion depletes calcium faster than it can be replenished in the blood.<br />
In a healthy environment, cows would live in excess of twenty-five years, but on modern dairies, they are slaughtered and made into ground beef after just three or four years. The abuse wreaked upon the bodies of dairy cows is so intense that the dairy industry also is a huge source of &#8220;downed animals&#8221; — animals who are so sick or injured that they are unable to walk even stand. Investigators have documented downed animals routinely being beaten, dragged, or pushed with bulldozers in attempts to move them to slaughter.<br />
Although the dairy industry is familiar with the cows&#8217; health problems and suffering associated with intensive milk production, it continues to subject cows to even worse abuses in the name of increased profit. Bovine Growth Hormone (BGH), a synthetic hormone, is now being injected into cows to get them to produce even more milk. Besides adversely affecting the cows&#8217; health, BGH also increases birth defects in their calves.<br />
Calves born to dairy cows are separated from their mothers immediately after birth. The half that are born female are raised to replace older dairy cows in the milking herd. The other half of the calves are male, and because they will never produce milk, they are raised and slaughtered for meat. Most are killed for beef, with close to one million being used for veal.<br />
The veal industry was created as a by-product of the dairy industry to take advantage of an abundant supply of unwanted male calves. Veal calves commonly live for eighteen to twenty weeks in wooden crates that are so small that they cannot turn around, stretch their legs, or even lie down comfortably. The calves are fed a liquid milk substitute, deficient in iron and fiber, which is designed to make the animals anemic, resulting in the light-colored flesh that is prized as veal. In addition to this high-priced veal, some calves are killed at just a few days old to be sold as low-grade &#8216;bob&#8217; veal for products like frozen TV dinners. </p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:19:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dairy Cows
Montcalm County, Michigan is home to almost 140 dairy farms. Dairy herds range in size from as small as 10 cows to as many as 1800 cows. This large variation in size is a function of an extraordinarily diverse group of dairy producers throughout the county. 
The National Agricultural Statistics Service estimated that Montcalm [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dairy Cows<br />
Montcalm County, Michigan is home to almost 140 dairy farms. Dairy herds range in size from as small as 10 cows to as many as 1800 cows. This large variation in size is a function of an extraordinarily diverse group of dairy producers throughout the county. </p>
<p>The National Agricultural Statistics Service estimated that Montcalm County dairy farms produced 205 million pounds of milk in 1999, up from 145 million in 1998. Montcalm County ranks 6th in the state in total milk produced. <a href="http://www.escortsdubai.net" target="_blank">Dubai Escorts</a><br />
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Breeds<br />
Feed &#038; Nutrition<br />
Housing<br />
Milking<br />
Marketing</p>
<p>Breeds</p>
<p> 	The vast majority of dairy cows in Montcalm County are Holsteins. Most Holsteins are readily identified by their black and white spots, although some have a red and white color pattern. A healthy Holstein calf weighs 90 pounds at birth. A mature Holstein (3 years of age) weighs 1500 pounds. Holsteins are the most popular breed of dairy cattle in the United States, comprising about 90% of the cow’s milk produced in the US. This is primarily because Holsteins excel at producing large quantities of milk.</p>
<p>The Jersey is the second most common breed in Montcalm County. Jerseys very greatly in color, but they are characterized by a shade of fawn with or without white markings. Their muzzle is black encircled by a light colored ring, and the tongue and switch may be either white or black. Jerseys are the smallest of dairy breeds, with a mature size of about 1000 pounds. Jerseys are noted for having the highest milkfat of any breed. </p>
<p>In addition to Holstein and Jersey, Montcalm County is home to a limited number of Brown Swiss, Guernsey, Ayrshire, and Milking Shorthorn dairy cows. </p>
<p>The Brown Swiss breed originated in Switzerland and is the oldest of the pure dairy breeds. Brown Swiss are known for their long life and outstanding feet and legs. They are colored solid brown with a black nose, tongue and tail. </p>
<p>The Guernsey is a shade of fawn, either solid or with white markings, with golden yellow pigmentation. The breed is moderate in size with mature cows weighing 1,150 pounds. The Guernsey is noted for the superior flavor of its golden-colored milk – naturally high in all milk solids.</p>
<p>Ayrshires are deep cherry red, mahogany, brown or a combination of any of these colors with white or white alone. A mature Ayrshire weighs at least 1,200 pounds. Ayrshires are characterized by strongly attached, evenly balanced, well shaped udders.</p>
<p>Milking Shorthorns are either red, red and white, or roan. Milking Shorthorns are known for their excellent reproductive efficiency and long life.</p>
<p>Feed &#038; Nutrition</p>
<p>The vast majority of dairy cows in Montcalm County are Holsteins. Most Holsteins are readily identified by their black and white spots, although some have a red and white color pattern. A healthy Holstein calf weighs 90 pounds at birth. A mature Holstein (3 years of age) weighs 1500 pounds. Holsteins are the most popular breed of dairy cattle in the United States, comprising about 90% of the cow’s milk produced in the US. This is primarily because Holsteins excel at producing large quantities of milk.	 </p>
<p>The Jersey is the second most common breed in Montcalm County. Jerseys very greatly in color, but they are characterized by a shade of fawn with or without white markings. Their muzzle is black encircled by a light colored ring, and the tongue and switch may be either white or black. Jerseys are the smallest of dairy breeds, with a mature size of about 1000 pounds. Jerseys are noted for having the highest milkfat of any breed. </p>
<p>In addition to Holstein and Jersey, Montcalm County is home to a limited number of Brown Swiss, Guernsey, Ayrshire, and Milking Shorthorn dairy cows. </p>
<p>The Brown Swiss breed originated in Switzerland and is the oldest of the pure dairy breeds. Brown Swiss are known for their long life and outstanding feet and legs. They are colored solid brown with a black nose, tongue and tail. </p>
<p>The Guernsey is a shade of fawn, either solid or with white markings, with golden yellow pigmentation. The breed is moderate in size with mature cows weighing 1,150 pounds. The Guernsey is noted for the superior flavor of its golden-colored milk – naturally high in all milk solids.</p>
<p>Ayrshires are deep cherry red, mahogany, brown or a combination of any of these colors with white or white alone. A mature Ayrshire weighs at least 1,200 pounds. Ayrshires are characterized by strongly attached, evenly balanced, well shaped udders.</p>
<p>Milking Shorthorns are either red, red and white, or roan. Milking Shorthorns are known for their excellent reproductive efficiency and long life.</p>
<p>Housing</p>
<p>Dairy housing facilities range widely by farm and age of the animal. Calves are typically housed individually to prevent respiratory and other diseases from spreading from one animal to another. Calves need a dry, draft-free environment. Hutches or individual pens in a larger building are the most common housing arrangements for calves.As calves age, they are grouped by size. A common way to house heifers is in open fronted buildings designed to minimize labor requirements during feeding and manure removal.	 </p>
<p>Most dairy cows in Montcalm County are housed in either stanchion barns or freestall barns. Some are given access to an open corral or pasture. Stanchion barns, sometimes called stall barns, are the more traditional type of dairy cow housing. Because each cow has her own stall, stanchion barns allow for more individual attention for cows. However, the disadvantages of stanchion barns include having to stoop down during milking and increased labor for distributing feed to each individual cow. </p>
<p>Most new housing facilities built today are freestall barns. Freestalls are simple in design, allowing each individual cow to select her own stall to lie in. The cow makes her own decision when she wants to exit the stall and move to the feed bunk or water trough. Many different bases for freestalls are used throughout the county including sawdust, sand, or mattresses made of rubber. Another major advantage of freestalls is the ability to feed all cows along a fence line by a feed wagon or truck. In addition, freestalls allow for ease of grouping cows by production or other management considerations like stage in reproductive life.</p>
<p>Milking</p>
<p>While each individual farm may have its own standard operating procedure for milking cows, there are some key steps that nearly every farm follows. Once the cow enters the milking parlor or stanchion barn where she will be milked, the cow’s udder is cleaned. This may be done by wiping the udder with a clean, dry cloth and coating the cow’s four teats with a cleaning solution containing iodine or some other sanitizer. This process does<br />
two things: removes dirt and bacteria to ensure a clean milk supply and stimulates the cow to “let down” or release her milk. After 15 to 20 seconds of contact time to kill bacteria and stimulate milk let down, the teats are then wiped clean with a towel or cloth and the milking unit is applied. The milking unit creates a controlled vacuum that opens the teat end and allows milk to flow out. The vacuum does not hurt the cow, operating similarly to the action of a suckling calf or a baby sucking his thumb. Many milking units are automated so they release automatically from the cow’s teats when milk flow slows. It takes approximately five minutes to milk a cow. Once the milking unit is removed, teats are dipped with a safe, proven teat dip containing an effective germicide. During this process, milk is never exposed to air. It travels through the milking unit through sanitized pipelines to a refrigerated storage tank where it is quickly cooled to 45°F or lower.</p>
<p>Marketing</p>
<p>Most Montcalm family farms are members of milk marketing cooperatives. These cooperatives are owned and controlled by the member patrons. Often a single farm does not produce enough milk to ship an entire truckload to a milk processing facility. The cooperatives market the farmers’ milk as a group, shipping truckloads of milk to various processing facilities across the state. Milk is either bottled for the fluid market or manufactured into one of many scrumptious dairy products like ice cream, yogurt, butter or cheese. </p>
<p>The northern part of Montcalm County is home to a large Amish community. Many Amish make all or part of their living from the dairy business. Milk from many of the Amish farms is shipped to the Farm Country Cheese House, located south of Lakeview. Visitors have an opportunity to watch cheese making and select from a wide variety of cheeses for purchase when visiting the Farm Country Cheese House.</p>
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The following excerpts on the history of the cattle industry were pulled from the book &#8221; Building the Beef Industry&#8221; written by Charles E. Ball. The book was commissioned to commemerate the Centennial Anniversary of the national association. 
A New Industry is Born
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Cattle Industry History<br />
The following excerpts on the history of the cattle industry were pulled from the book &#8221; Building the Beef Industry&#8221; written by Charles E. Ball. The book was commissioned to commemerate the Centennial Anniversary of the national association. <span id="more-9"></span></p>
<p>A New Industry is Born<br />
On his second voyage to the New World in 1493, Columbus introduced cattle to the Western Hemisphere. After a two-month, 3400-mile voyage, he set anchor at Hispaniola and unloaded his cattle. There the cattle thrived.  In 1519, Hernando Cortez took offspring of these cattle to Mexico to set up ranches. Often the cattle roamed wild and later came to the United States by way of Texas and California.<br />
Early American cattle originated in Europe but came to the Americas by many routes: Texas, Florida, California, Virginia and New England. By the time cattle reached Texas and California from Mexico in the 1500s, a cattle industry was emerging in Florida. Weighing 600 to 800 pounds these cattle known as woods cattle, Florida Crackers or Florida Scrubs, flourished and are still around today.<br />
In 1607, cattle arrived at Jamestown, but none survived. More came in 1611, at which time Governor Thomas Dale issued a proclamation: &#8220;No man shall dare kill any bull, cow, calf… whether his own or appertaining to another man.&#8221; Thanks to this conservation and further imports, cattle became established in Virginia: an estimated 500 head by 1620 and 30,000 by 1639.<br />
At the same time, animals from England northern Europe began arriving in New England and appeared in New York in 1625. On Manhattan Island, a wall was built between the Dutch commune and their outlying farms to protect against wild animals and Indians. This is the wall for which today’s Wall Street is named.<br />
Expanding Horizons<br />
By the 1890s there was a new range. Great herds of buffalo were gone; Indians were relegated to reservations; barbed wire had carved out farms; and a growing network of rails replaced trail drives. Cattle were now business owned by small as well as large producers. A new century was approaching and the world would change dramatically for the cattlemen.<br />
The cattle industry of 1898 was not only regional, focused almost entirely in the West, but also differed substantially from today’s industry especially in how cattle were readied for and delivered to market.<br />
The industry was organized to produce steers four or five years old which were shipped by train from local loading stations along the ever-growing network of rail lines to central markets as grass fat steers from July to November.<br />
Stockyards provided the accumulation points for cattle coming in on the rail cars. Cattle were not fed as in today’s definitions, but rather sorted and distributed out to packers. There were no feeder or stocker cattle, and heifers were never slaughtered. What feeding there was in the Corn Belt was because midwestern farmers kept cattle to use up excess corn. But this was usually a sideline to their corn and hog economy.<br />
Packers, too, had to be concentrated at the rail centers. They killed all kinds of livestock. Their customers were small butcher shops, which needed an assortment of product. The refrigerator cars were loaded with beef quarters hanging from the ceiling. The floor of the car had boxes of ham, bacon and lamb carcasses wrapped in cheese cloth and veal calf carcasses with the hide still on. Freight rates seemed high, but it was a one-way haul to the eastern markets. There was no back haul; stock cars had to go west empty.<br />
Through out the history of the industry cattlemen have worried about the size and ethics of railroad, packers and eventually about buyers, feeders and any other group who seems to be operating outside of their control. At that time it was difficult for a rancher to realize that once the animal was slaughtered it became a very perishable product. It had to be moved into consumption no matter what the conditions, or lost entirely.</p>
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