Cattle Milkshake
by A sweet, cold beverage made from milk, ice cream, and flavorings. Milkshakes are popular treats in many cultures. For instance, offering chocolate milkshakes as a dessert option in a dairy farm’s café.
Tick-Borne Fever
tick-borne fever: An infectious disease transmitted by bites from ticks. In cattle, the disease causes loss of milk yield and a lower resistance to other diseases. In sheep, it causes fever, listlessness, and loss of weight. Abortions may occur as a result of tick-borne fever. Effective management and prevention of tick-borne fever are essential for maintaining livestock health and productivity.
Food Product Security Governance Frameworks
The structures and processes used to oversee and manage security practices in food production and distribution, ensuring accountability and compliance. For example, implementing food product security governance frameworks to ensure effective security management and regulatory adherence.
Trafficability
trafficability: The ability of soil to take machinery or stock without significant soil damage. It is related to the soil water content. Monitoring and managing trafficability can prevent soil compaction and enhance crop growth.
Nutritious
nutritious: adjective (of food) containing the elements needed to nourish plants and animals, e.g., a diet of nutritious food. Nutritious foods support the health and productivity of both humans and livestock. Farmers can benefit from growing and producing nutritious crops and feed to meet market demands and improve animal performance. Understanding the nutritional requirements of crops and livestock helps optimize production practices and diet formulation, ensuring optimal growth and health. Providing nutritious options supports sustainable farming, enhances marketability, and increases farm profitability.
Summer Grazing
The practice of allowing livestock to graze on pastures during the summer months when forage is abundant. Summer grazing helps reduce feed costs and support animal health. For instance, rotating cattle through different pastures during the summer to optimize forage use.
Farrowing Fever
Farrowing Fever: A disease of pigs caused by inflammation of the womb. Pigs suffer high temperatures and loss of appetite. Also called MMA. Early detection and treatment of farrowing fever are crucial for maintaining pig health and productivity.
Injurious Weed
injurious weed: A weed which causes damage to crops or livestock, e.g. ragwort or creeping thistle. Helps farmers identify and manage harmful weeds.
Spinach Beet
spinach beet: a plant similar to sugar beet, but grown for its leaves which are cooked in the same way as spinach. Growing spinach beet provides farmers with a versatile crop for fresh and processed markets, enhancing farm income and sustainability.
Lodgepole Pine
Lodgepole Pine: Lodgepole pine is a slow-growing tree which thrives on poor soil and is used as a pioneer crop (Pinus contorta). Growing lodgepole pine can provide farmers with a sustainable source of timber and improve soil health.
Dipping Bath
dipping bath: Same as dipper. Using a dipping bath is an effective method for managing external parasites in livestock. Farmers should ensure proper construction and maintenance of dipping baths for safe and effective dipping. Understanding the benefits and applications of dipping baths will aid in effective parasite management and improved livestock welfare.
Volatile Oils
volatile oils: Concentrated oils from a scented plant used in cosmetics or as antiseptics. Producing volatile oils can provide an additional income stream for farmers.
Clean Crop
Clean Crop: A measure of the amount of cereal not mixed with seeds of other plants. Managing clean crops involves using appropriate weed control measures to ensure high-quality produce.
Proven Sire
proven sire: A bull, boar, or ram which has been shown to sire progeny that produce milk, meat, or wool of high quality. Helpful content: Using proven sires in breeding programs enhances genetic quality and productivity. Farmers can achieve better offspring performance and overall herd improvement through careful sire selection.
Carbon Monoxide (Co)
Carbon Monoxide (CO): A colorless, odorless, and poisonous gas found in car fumes, burning gas, and cigarette smoke. Ensuring proper ventilation and monitoring carbon monoxide levels protects livestock and farmworkers from poisoning.
Ecological Engineering
ecological engineering: A design process that aims to integrate human activities with the natural environment for the benefit of both. Ecological engineering can help farmers create sustainable farm designs that minimize environmental impact.
Continuing Professional Development
Continuing Professional Development: Continuing professional development noun the continuation of training and study throughout a persons career. Abbr CPD. Experience of dairying in New Zealand and the USA indicates that both these dairying cultures place emphasis on communication, as well as the continuing professional development of their staff. [Farmers Weekly]. Engaging in continuing professional development ensures up-to-date knowledge and skills for agricultural professionals.
Part-Time Farming
part-time farming: A type of farming where the farmer has a regular occupation other than farming, which is common throughout much of central and Eastern Europe. In the UK, part-time farmers are mainly wealthy people who farm as a hobby or as a second form of business. Part-time farming can provide additional income and sustainable land use.
Neat
neat: an old term meaning a cow or ox. Understanding historical farming terminology like “neat” can provide farmers with insights into traditional practices and livestock management. While the term is outdated, recognizing its usage can enhance communication with older generations of farmers and in historical agricultural contexts. Embracing a broader understanding of farming heritage can help preserve valuable knowledge and practices that contribute to sustainable and resilient farming systems today.
Furrow Irrigation
Furrow Irrigation: Irrigation technique where water is allowed to flow along furrows. Properly managing furrow irrigation ensures efficient water use and crop irrigation.
Porcine Stress Syndrome
porcine stress syndrome: A group of conditions associated with the halothane gene that cause rapid respiration, twitching, and sudden death in affected pigs. The condition is usually triggered by stress and can be screened for by exposing the animals to the anesthetic halothane. Abbr PSS. Helpful content: Managing porcine stress syndrome involves selecting animals without the halothane gene and reducing stress factors. Proper handling and management practices can improve animal welfare and productivity.
European Foul Brood
European foul brood: A disease affecting bees that is caused by a bacterial parasite of the Streptococcaceae family that infests the larvae. Abbr EFB. Managing European foul brood is crucial for beekeepers to ensure healthy bee colonies and honey production.
Cold Carcass Weight
The weight of an animal’s carcass after cooling and processing, used to calculate yield and dressing percentage. For example, using cold carcass weight to determine the amount of marketable meat from each animal.
Hydroelectric Power
hydroelectric power: The electricity produced by using a flow of water to drive turbines. Also called hydropower. Utilizing hydroelectric power provides a renewable energy source for farm operations.
Egg Classes
egg classes: The grading of eggs under EU regulations, into Class A (fresh eggs), Class B (preserved eggs), and Class C (eggs for use in food processing). Understanding egg classes helps farmers market their eggs more effectively.
Strategy For Sustainable Farming And Food
Strategy for Sustainable Farming and Food: a scheme administered by Defra which promotes sustainable, ecologically sound farming methods, and provides funding for relevant training and modernisation. Understanding and engaging with sustainability strategies ensures farmers adopt practices that support long-term productivity and environmental health.
Sterilise
sterilise: to make something sterile by killing the microorganisms in it or on it; to make an organism unable to have offspring (NOTE: This may be done by various means including drugs, surgery, or irradiation.). Properly managing sterilisation ensures biosecurity and prevents disease outbreaks, supporting livestock health and productivity.
European Food Safety Authority
European Food Safety Authority: A consultative body, funded by the European Community, which advises policymakers on health and food safety issues. Abbr EFSA. Understanding EFSA guidelines helps farmers ensure food safety and meet regulatory standards.
Turn Out Time
turn out time: A season, usually in the spring, when animals which have been kept indoors during the winter are let out to grass. Managing turn out time effectively can enhance pasture management and livestock productivity.
Vacuum Silage
vacuum silage: Silage placed in large polythene bags, usually by a baler specially adapted for this purpose. Air is excluded, so preventing the development of moulds and the green crop is conserved in succulent form. Vacuum silage can improve feed quality and storage efficiency, providing nutritious feed for livestock.
Basic Slag
basic slag: Calcium phosphate produced as waste from blast furnaces, used as a fertilizer. Using basic slag improves soil fertility and provides essential nutrients to crops.
Cattle Breeding Soundness Evaluation (Bse)
A comprehensive assessment of a male cattle’s reproductive capabilities. BSE includes physical examination, semen analysis, and libido evaluation. For instance, conducting BSE on bulls before the breeding season ensures they are capable of siring healthy offspring.
Hatchery Waste
hatchery waste: Surplus chicks or embryos produced in a hatchery. Proper management of hatchery waste ensures compliance with animal welfare standards and reduces environmental impact.
Heifer Sale
An event where heifers are auctioned or sold for breeding or meat production. Heifer sales are important for acquiring replacement stock. For example, purchasing heifers at a sale to replenish the breeding herd and improve genetic quality.
Direct Drilling
direct drilling: A form of minimal cultivation where the seed is sown directly into the field without previous cultivation. Several types of drill are used, with heavy discs for cutting narrow drills, or strong cultivator tines. Direct drilling can improve soil health, reduce erosion, and save time and labor. Farmers should select the appropriate type of drill for their needs and use it properly to achieve optimal crop establishment. Understanding the benefits and applications of direct drilling will aid in effective soil management and crop production.