livestock management

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• The Sheep, The Coyote, and The Farmer and His Tire Iron

  
  Pasture Raised and Grass Fed on Stony Brook Farm — Authority: 109
  So, we have a lot of coyotes around these parts. There’s lots of food for them. They eat a lot of berries and nuts and stuff, but they also eat lots of insects and little mammal critters when they can catch them, and they will eat a few fawns or a sick adult deer every [...]
  2 days ago

• are americans a broken people?

  
  subrealism — Authority: 140
  AlterNet | A psychologist asks: Have consumerism, suburbanization and a malevolent corporate-government partnership so beaten us down that we no longer have the will to save ourselves? Can people become so broken that truths of how they are being screwed do not "set them free" but instead further demoralize them? ...
  5 days ago

• Take Care of Those Sows!

  
  Pasture Raised and Grass Fed on Stony Brook Farm — Authority: 109
  In our culture, there is a strong tension between those with book knowledge and those with practical knowledge. I believe that tension is overblown. Of course, books on practical subjects cannot tell you everything you need to know about the subject of the book, as no author can anticipate any given person’s real ...
  1 week ago

• the psychology of social status

  
  subrealism — Authority: 140
  Scientific American | Nobel Laureate economist, John Harsanyi, said that “apart from economic payoffs, social status seems to be the most important incentive and motivating force of social behavior.” The more noticeable status disparities are, the more concerned with status people become, and the differences ...
  1 week ago

• poor children likelier to get anti-psychotics..,

  
  subrealism — Authority: 140
  NYTimes | New federally financed drug research reveals a stark disparity: children covered by Medicaid are given powerful antipsychotic medicines at a rate four times higher than children whose parents have private insurance. And the Medicaid children are more likely to receive the drugs for less severe conditions ...
  1 week ago

• Winter Is Here

  
  Pasture Raised and Grass Fed on Stony Brook Farm — Authority: 109
  So, just like that, winter is here, and, surprise, surpise, I was more or less prepared. All of the animals but one of the breeding flocks of sheep are super well protected from the wind and snow. That one breeding group could use another shelter, which I plan to drag into their paddock today. Everyone [...]
  1 week ago

• h1n1 and pneumococcal lung infections?

  
  subrealism — Authority: 140
  WaPo | Federal health officials on Wednesday linked the H1N1 flu epidemic to a sharp rise in the number of severe bacterial infections. Anne Schuchat, a physician at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said the national trend was "worrisome" but not unexpected. "In previous pandemics, there has been ...
  3 weeks ago

• chinese garlic speculators cash in on swine flu fears

  
  subrealism — Authority: 140
  WaPo | Garlic prices are hitting record highs in China, the worlds biggest producer of the pungent bulbs, amid reports of a speculative bubble in the market even as people rush to buy it as a putative cure for swine flu. The China Daily reported last week that a high school in the eastern city of Hangzhou bought ...
  3 weeks ago

• simplest explanation

  
  subrealism — Authority: 140
  Bloomberg | Adrian Gibbs, the virologist who said in May that swine flu may have escaped from a laboratory, published his findings today, renewing discussion about the origins of the pandemic virus. The new H1N1 strain, which was discovered in Mexico and the U.S. in April, may be the product of three strains from ...
  3 weeks ago

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