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Palm Cultivation

dmin — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 23:17:25 +0000

Palm is an ornamental plant that is cosmopolitan, could be found in tropical and subtropical regions, in the lowlands and high in the mountains and on the beach, in the fertile and barren land.

Araceceae ornamental plants from the family (Palmae) is referred to as The Nobility of the Kingdom of Plants. The four plants in the upper palm is a plant outdoors (outdoor plants) are used as an ornamental way (palm princess, king, sometimes a bottle) or as an ornamental plant in the yard (red palm and bottles). As in an home such as apartment kiev, or in plant world we used to call as host, having a healthy host are important to get the success in cultivation.

Based on palm species, we could classified as follow: Ravenea sp. (princess palm); Mascarena lagenicaulis or Hyophorbe lagenicaulis (bottle palm), Cyrtostachys Lakka (red palms) and Roystonea sp. (king palm)

Ravenea sp.
At first glance looks like a palm king, leaves wider and more green color. Plants from Madagascar, widely used as an ornamental or potted plant roadside.

Mascarena lagenicaulis
Trunk bubbling underneath and narrowed so that the upper stem-like shape of the bottle. Growth is slow, so it does not require a narrow editorial wide areas.

Cyrtostachys Lakka
Also called red nut is native to Indonesia and growing in lowland swamp forests to 500 m above sea level. It features located on the leaf midrib and bone red. To maintain the red color, this palm is planted at a blistering pace.

Roystonea sp.
Known as the Royal Palm for its charming with a sturdy stem, leaf green and fresh. Midrib a loss will leave a mark circles or lines in gray and white. Plant height reaches 25-30 m. Types which are widely grown palm king Cuba. King palm species known is Roystonea regia, R. buringuena and R. elata.

Palms plant are tropical and subtropical plants, so long as its growth required a full sun exposure. At the time of germination and seedlings should not be exposed to direct sunlight. The temperature required is 25-33 degrees C, and still grow well outside the range of the tropical air temperature.

Another things you should now about palm seeds, the soil must contain some sands. Other then that the roots of this palm plant does not like puddles.

Soil Formation and type

dmin — Mon, 30 May 2011 08:04:59 +0000

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.

Math knowledge in farm industry

dmin — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 04:22:37 +0000

What did you think about merging mathematics and farm industry? Like it or not math is the answer and important elements in your life. Mathematics has enabled farming to be more economically efficient and has increased productivity. Farmers use mathematics as a system of organization to effectively utilize their time and manage their money. Farmers use numbers everyday for a variety of tasks, from measuring and weighing, to land marking. Intend to explore more in farming industry learn Math problems in farming before you start.

Obviously, numbers are an integral part of farming. Locations and machines are commonly described or labeled with numbers. More importantly, however, is what these numbers mean. The numbers are not arbitrarily assigned; they have a purpose.

One of the most frequently used math concepts on the farm is the use of proportions. Units and measurements used in farming are fairly unfamiliar to other areas. We can use proportions to make conversions from the unfamiliar to the familiar. Land is measured in acres, for example. It is hard to understand the size of an acre because our minds are trained to visualize miles or kilometers.
We can use conversions to put an acre into perspective. Professionals who work in grain elevators frequently use conversions. Grain prices are often given per ton, but producers want to know the price per bushel. Agriculture specialists are required to do these conversions quickly and accurately.

The basic of math comes from Calculus and Algebra and fraction. Now that you have known the usage of math, start tutoring your children on homework help. Either in Calculus help or Algebra help or Calculus help or math help for your elementary.

HOW TO START A CATTLE FARM

dmin — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 10:24:34 +0000

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.

FARMS AND FARMING

dmin — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 10:22:13 +0000

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.

MILK AND CHEESE

dmin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:23:23 +0000

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

Cattle Farming – A Basic Guide

dmin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:15:10 +0000

Cattle Farming – A Basic Guide
by cattlefarmer on August 30, 2009

Cattle farming is potentially appealing to people who have the necessary land and resources to make it pay. Whether you’re planning on setting up an operation for organic cattle farming, dairy cattle farming or beef cattle farming, the industry of cattle farming is becoming progressively fashionable and lucrative. Cattle can be raised on land which has few other uses, such as areas of land which are unsuitable for any other crop except grass. There are a number of elements to look at and these include calving, inoculation and breeding. For many people cattle farming is an activity which requires less labor input than most farming activities and its is important to look at your specific objectives when setting out along the path of farming cattle, since there are a number of different ways of farming cattle for net income.
For example you could keep a low number of high quality cows and specialize in raising calves from this basic stock. Plainly such an endeavor also requires the services of a good herd bull unless you plan to utilize artificial insemination.
Another potential method of earning good money from cattle farming is to purchase good quality new born calves and then feed them on until they reach over 400 pounds in weight. This type of activity in general takes more labor to make it a winner but the pecuniary rewards can be high. Alternatively the feeding can continue until the calves weigh considerably more and therefore make them more attractive to the beef wholesalers or even to consumers directly.
The purchase of acceptable herd stock is of supreme importance and generally the size and quality of animal is more significant than the actual breed of cattle used. Cattle with abnormal fat are best avoided since they are likely to gain weight slowly, particularly in the first couple of months. Check prospective purchasers cautiously, good cattle should be alert, bright eyed and move around normally. Exceptions to this should be regarded with a degree of mistrust. Similarly, and much like humans, small framed cattle will generally end up as relatively light in weight and those with heavier frames will tend towards the heavier weights. It’s usually best to purchase cattle that are regular in frame since widely diverse frame sizes tend to need different feeding programs, which in turn requires more work.
Many cattle farmers have now seen the rewards of selling directly to consumers but if you plan to do this then it is important to consider having a sturdy business plan with specific aims in mind. Wherever practicable have a specific location for selling since it is generally easier and cheaper to transport live animals for a relatively short distance than a packaged and refrigerated product. As with most endeavors, your merchandise should be well branded and your facilities clean and in good repair.