Heather Smith-Thomas

Idaho

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Innovative Feeders Save Hay

Aug 23, 2023 | americancattlemen.com | Heather Smith-Thomas

Innovative Feeders Save Hay. By Heather Smith Thomas. Hay rings for big round bales—to place over a round bale or to put a round bale into, so cattle can feed themselves out in a pen or pasture—have been in common use since the 1970’s. Even though this saves labor when feeding cattle, there was always a lot of wasted hay as cattle pull the hay out of the ring, leaving debris around the feeder. In recent years there have been many innovations to create more efficient feeders.
Barnyard Basics: Protein for children in developing countries, Part II: Taking the family to Ecuador

Aug 22, 2023 | postregister.com | Heather Smith-Thomas

When Bob Sterling was a student at Utah State University for degrees in Animal Science and International Agriculture, he needed to do an internship. “I knew a man in the Idaho Falls area, in the meat and livestock industry — Roger Ball,” Sterling says. “I contacted him and did my internship in Blackfoot, where he owned a meat packing plant. After finishing school and my project in Ecuador, I reconnected with Mr. Ball.
Cattle out on pasture for another season

Aug 17, 2023 | grainews.ca | Heather Smith-Thomas

Read AlsoMarvelling at hummingbirdsAre you being gentle with yourself? Life has a way of slowly taking us off course from time to time…. Last Sunday was cold and windy all day. We were glad we’d branded and vaccinated the calves the day before. After we fed the cows, Andrea put the feed truck in the stack yard so Lynn could load another big bale, and hiked home to get her four-wheeler. Now that Charlie got it running again, she can use it and leave Lynn’s four-wheeler down here for him.
Barnyard Basics: Protein for children in developing countries, Part I: Improving quality of life with better agricultural practices

Aug 15, 2023 | postregister.com | Heather Smith-Thomas

Bob Stirling and his family took on a project a few years ago to provide protein to protein-deficient children in Ecuador by teaching their families how to make beef jerky. The road to this adventure was an interesting journey that took many years. Stirling grew up on a small farm in northern Utah, just north of Salt Lake City. His family raised Herefords and hay and had a fruit orchard. “What sparked my interest in agriculture was my first ag class in high school and becoming involved with FFA.
TMR Benefits

Aug 10, 2023 | americandairymen.com | Heather Smith-Thomas

TMR Benefits. By Heather Smith Thomas. Feeding a total mixed ration (TMR) helps cattle achieve maximum performance, and for a dairy cow that means more milk. This feeding method was begun in the 1950s, and is now the most common method for feeding high-producing, indoor-housed dairy cows around the world.
Mastitis in Dairy Cows

Aug 10, 2023 | americandairymen.com | Heather Smith-Thomas

Mastitis in Dairy Cows. By Heather Smith Thomas. Mastitis simply means inflammation and/or infection in one or more quarters of the udder. Signs of mastitis often include swelling, heat, redness and pain in the udder. Acute mastitis can cause fever, depression, loss of appetite and weight, septicemia, and death. Mastitis can also become chronic if the inflammatory response persists over a long period of time.
Harnden’s Nursery: Tree nursery flourishes

Aug 10, 2023 | capitalpress.com | Heather Smith-Thomas

SNOHOMISH, Wash. — Kevin Harnden is part of a family-owned tree nursery at Snohomish, Wash. His grandparents, Dick and Pat Harnden, met at the University of Washington, where Dick was studying forestry and she was studying to become an English teacher. After college, they lived in the North Cascades while Dick worked at a Forest Service smokejumper base. When their son Mike was born they started a landscaping business. “Their son Mike (my father) grew up helping with that.
Melad Tree Farm: Provides a unique service

Aug 10, 2023 | capitalpress.com | Heather Smith-Thomas

Nathan Melad grew up in Nampa, Idaho, earned a degree in horticulture from Boise State University and started Melad Tree Farm LLC in 1992. Then the market for trees plummeted during the recession that hit in 2008. “Our trees got really big, up to 6- and 7-inch caliper and 20 to 30 feet tall,” he said. In 2013 he hired a man in Sun Valley with a big tree spade to dig and transplant a few big trees. A few years later Melad bought his own tree spade truck.
Biringer Nursery: Family operation with heart

Aug 10, 2023 | capitalpress.com | Heather Smith-Thomas

MOUNT VERNON, Wash. — During the early 1970s, Joe Biringer Sr. worked in Seattle as an X-ray service and sales engineer, but wanted to return to his farming roots. He grew up on a farm near Marysville, Wash. With the help of Herbert Frost of Frost Nursery, in 1974 he started Biringer Nursery LLC in Marysville with his wife, Mary Ann, and their two children, Melissa and Joe Jr.In 1989 they relocated to the fertile soils of the Skagit Valley.
North End Organic Nursery promotes organic gardening

Aug 10, 2023 | capitalpress.com | Heather Smith-Thomas

GARDEN CITY, Idaho — This organic nursery and greenhouse is now located near Garden City, Idaho, but started 14 years ago in Boise. “At that time I had an organic lawn care company,” said owner Lindsay Schramm. “We needed a place to house our lawn care equipment and trucks.”When a former nursery on Boise’s North End came up for sale, she bought it and named the new enterprise the North End Organic Nursery.

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