By Alex Tiller
Link: http://blog.alextiller.com
I’ve come up with the following 9 tips that will help reduce paper usage in your farm office and get your operation more organized and efficient.
1) Catalogs: Ask your vendors to email you electronic versions of whatever they are trying to sell. If they have a catalog, they have a digital […]
Researchers at the Michigan State University in East Lansing observed as early as 1981, that providing light even at night to a nursing mother cow increases her milking capacity. According to the researchers, light from the pasteurland during the day is not adequate for a nursing mother cow. To make her milk abundant, provide her […]
Almost every part of the radish plant is useful. The leaves and roots may be eaten raw or cooked as vegetable, or cooked with meat or fish.
There are two kinds of cassava: the sweet and the bitter kinds. The ordinary kind sold in the market is the sweet kind, and the one made into laundry starch is the bitter kind.
A native to temperate Europe and Western Asia, asparagus has perennial roots, which sends up each year an erect branching stem several feet in height. One of the most delicate, wholesome and appetizing products of the garden, its new shoots are juicy and succulent both for use as table vegetable and canning purpose.
Cattle fattening has gained prominence as an important business project of the livestock industry in the Philippines. It gives the farmer year-round work and provides him with extra income. He can make use of cheap, plentiful farm by-products such as corn stovers, rice straw, copra meal, rice bran and sugarcane tops, which ordinarily go to […]
Soon to be fruit of all season.
Durian has often been described as “a fruit that tastes like heaven but smells like hell”.
However, to the ordinary durian consumers who are mostly minimum wage earners, the “hell” pact is not the smell but rather the price,especially during the off-season, when prices could become prohibitively high due to […]
Climatic requirements
Bell pepper is a cool-climate crop (65–75 F). Production is low during summer months. When the temperature reaches 90 F, the blossoms seldom set fruit. For best result in dry lowlands, plant peppers in the late fall and winter months and harvest in late winter and early spring. In the cooler uplands, plant during […]
Feedlot fattening of the carabao is one of the fastest ways to increase carabeef production. It is simply feeding the animal with locally available feeds but are of good quality and least cost. More so, feedlot fattening becomes especially useful in areas where farm by-products such as sugarcane tops, pineapple pulp, corn fodder, cover crops […]
Young cob corn (Zea mays L.), the newly developed corn, has been used by Chinese as vegetable for generations and this practice has spread to other Asian countries. It is used as ingredient in most food preparations. It has nutritive value similar to that of non-legume vegetable such as cauliflower, tomato, cucumber and cabbage (Yodpetch […]
