FARM animals are wintered on fodder and root crops, supplemented by concentrates, that is, grain, milling offals, oil-seed residues, etc.; the fodder, roots, and frequently the grain also are home ...

There’s nothing quite like pulling a homegrown carrot from the soil for a winter meal. If you’ve never managed this feat before, perhaps this will be your year! Overwintering root vegetables is easier ...

Root crops have long been popular with gardeners. While our ancestors dug wild roots to supplement their diets, modern humans have spent decades breeding and selecting root crops to develop the ...

BOGOTA, March 6 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As farmers worldwide experience more frequent drought and erratic rainfall linked to climate change, the race to find and improve drought-resistant crops ...

With the UK having experienced several heatwaves and areas of the country in drought, concerns about fodder availability for the winter are increasing. According to the latest AHDB grass growth data, ...

Smallholder farmers often face the dilemma of subdividing the farm to grow food for the family and livestock feed. Often a larger portion is allocated to growing crops for family consumption while ...

It might sound odd to call a small plot overgrown with grass a museum. But the half-acre parcel of land on the premises of the office of the State Fodder Farm at Valiyathura in Thiruvananthapuram is ...

Sepo ranch is a large stockbreeding zone covering around 50,000 hectares across three counties—Sepo, Ichon, and Pyonggang—in ...

ICAR Basar has supplied Hybrid Napier fodder to mithun farmers in Siang district to promote sustainable and semi-intensive ...

JMMFF chairman Tadang Tamut, on behalf of the federation and mithun farmers of Siang district, welcomed the initiative and expressed gratitude to ICAR-AP Centre Head Dr Doni Jini and senior scientist ...

BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As farmers worldwide experience more frequent drought and erratic rainfall linked to climate change, the race to find and improve drought-resistant crops grows ...