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USDA today announced deregulation of Roundup Ready Alfalfa without conditions.
FGD gypsum is a bona fide replacement for mined gypsum that is used to provide sulfur and calcium.
The final EIS will be available for public review for at least 30 days before USDA will publish a record of decision on how it will proceed.
A Wisconsin analysis showed that 64% of the areas sampled were deficient in sulfur.
If your nutrition is out of sync, then nothing else matters.
Nutrition is the key to milk production, and forage quality is the key to good nutrition. We use two main forage sources, triticale haylage and corn silage.
Growing and harvesting high-quality forages have gone from being simple things to real challenges.
We have always invested heavily in both feed storage and forage harvesting equipment.
Bonus content: Comments Draft EIS To submit comments The 60-day public comment period for the draft environmental impact statement (EIS) on Roundup Ready (RR) alfalfa ends on Feb. 16. Even so, there’s still some uncertainty about when USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) will finally give the go-ahead to put the genetically engineered crop back on the market.
Bonus content: More on re-engineered alfalfa: Overview Improving protein utilization alfalfa breeders are looking to improve fiber digestibility and slow down the rate of protein digestibility in the cow’s rumen Consortium for Alfalfa Improvement
Alfalfa breeders are looking to improve fiber digestibility and slow down the rate of protein digestibility in the cow’s rumen
The international herd improvement organizations NCBC and CRV have launched a joint venture to help customers who run grass-based farming systems.
USDA announced today it was extending the comment period for the draft environmental impact statement (EIS) on Roundup Ready alfalfa by 15 days to March 3.
GPS-guided auto-steering has not caught on as fast for dairy farmers as it has for their corn and soybean brethren who farm tabletop-flat prairies. But that’s changing, as pioneering dairy producers try to squeeze every advantage out of this constantly evolving technology.