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How to stop cow burps from warming the Earth
2015-11-03 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Tico Times: At her farm nestled in the green hills of northwestern France, Marie-Francoise Brizard is helping to curb a planet-wide menace: farting and belching cows implicated in global warming. So far this year, Brizard says she has cut methane emissions from her herd of 40 Normandy cows that are equivalent to 32 tons of climate-changing carbon dioxide. That is equal to the carbon pollution spewed out in a 470,000-kilometer (292,000-mile) car journey, according to a computer tracker provided to Brizard by...
COW HERD EFFICIENCY LEADS TO PROFITABILITY
2015-10-23 17:51:38| Cattle Today
Improvement of the economic position of the farm or ranch is an ongoing process for many commercial cow-calf producers. Profitability may be enhanced by increasing the volume of production (i.e. the pounds of calves you market) and/or the value of products you sell (improving quality).
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Cow slaughter unknowns continue; will more cows head to town?
2015-10-22 16:30:00| Beef
Uncertainty remains with respect to cow slaughter this fall. Will more cows head to town? read more
Cow poop used to provide electricity for BMW plant
2015-10-18 02:44:13| Paper - Topix.net
According to a recent report by Bloomberg News ,BMW's factory in Rosslyn, South Africa has signed a 10-year agreement to purchase as much as 4.4 megawatts of electricity from Bio2Watt, a biogas plant which uses cow manure and other organic waste iincluding sour yogurt and discarded dogfood, as well as "paper sludge" from the local unit of U.S. toilet-tissue maker Kimberly-Clark Corp. .to power its plant. The biogas facility, located approximately 50 miles from BMW's near Pretoria is situated in the heart of grazing land for an estimated 30,000 cows, and is prepared to provide up to 25-30% of the electricity used by BMW's factory, stated the German auto manufacturer's South Africa spokesman Diederik Reitsma.
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Weekly Cattle Market Wrap-Up | Cold storage report pushes cow trade down
2015-10-01 18:11:00| Beef
The big 36% increase of beef in cold storage for August compared to last year had a negative impact on cow trade. Additionally, the cow cutout was higher than the Choice and Select most of the past week. Audio File: Beef Mag fdr ctl and cow audio 2015 10 01.mp3 read more
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