Heat Stress In Your Cattle Herd Whether your cattle are just for your family or part of a larger business, you want to do everything possible to ensure their health and comfort. Doing so will provide a higher quality milk, greater quantities and overall better experiences with your cows. However, any heat stress dairy cows experience can put a real damper on your plans and your farms profitability. It is essential that you learn how to deal with it early on! What Heat Stress In…
How The Summer Weather Affects Dairy Cattle Current climate conditions do affect animals as well as people. As a dairy farmer it is very important for you to have a plan for your dairy cattle stress management. How and when you have a plan, the sooner you can address the symptoms and as well the sooner your cattle can get comfortable and get back to producing milk properly. Livestock heat stress can cause serious health issues in your valuable livestock as well as reduced dairy and…
The Kestrel model #3500 and #3500 NV are built to last. Both of these models, are small, light, durable, and very accurate. They measure 6 different weather conditions. Quickly and very accurate in their readings. Many people like to use theses for long range shooting. It’s the wind speeds, and wind gusts readings they find attractive with the Kestrel 3500 & 3500 NV.
Weather Stations Can Be Used For Better Gardens When one thinks of a garden, they see a fresh, green filled garden with many different types of vegetables, growing and flourishing. You are looking at and savoring the great fresh vegetable taste, you will be experiencing. The expectation is harvesting some of the vegetables and eating them. But the mystery is how to get to that point with your garden. It isn’t good luck that successful growers possess, it is know-how and work. You can use…
Farming with Weather Farming today is a big risk, big rewards type of business. Farms are very expensive to run and high-yielding in profit in good crop years. One key to be successful with your crop yield is to be analyzing everything from seed crop data, to pesticide application, to soil conditions and our favorite subject, using a weather station to study what nature’s elements are doing daily. Farming 40-50 years ago was much different than it is today. Agriculture used to be thousands of…
A Gardener Uses a Personal Weather Station As a gardener, you know every year that as soon as winter has left, you are on the clock. What do I mean by that you would say? You will have limited time to accomplish what your goals are with your garden. Everything will be limited by the weather that you need to work with. You can’t control the elements; you can only learn to work with them to your very best ability. In this article we will…
We offer various articles on weather and it's relationship to such things as farming, gardening, and raising farm animals as well. We believe weather instruments should be taught to all kids as they are growing up.
