Always wash your hands, equipment and work space after coming in contact with raw poultry. Top quality poultry carcasses come from healthy, well-finished and well-fleshed birds. Don’t feed poultry 6 ...

Home Food, health and nutrition Food safety Preserving and preparing How to safely make homemade jerky Jerky is an easy to make flavorful snack. Remember when processing any meat, food safety must be ...

Infection may start where the fruit contacts the soil, where the stem connects to the fruit, or as a random circular spot. Infected fruit are soft, easily punctured and often collapse. In some cases, ...

A basic hay analysis costs about $20. Optimum horse hay moisture ranges from 10 to 15 percent. ADF values under 45 percent are generally good for horses. NDF values under 65 percent are generally good ...

Avian influenza harms poultry flocks, especially if it’s highly pathogenic (HPAI). Always report any signs of disease to your state agency or veterinarian. Preventing disease is the best way to keep ...

EPM is a neurologic disease that horses get from eating infected opossum feces. Incoordination, muscle atrophy and loss of feeling around the body are a few signs of illness. Storing feed in ...

The University of Minnesota Extension Master Gardener volunteer program started in 1977 with its first class of 25 people. Since then it has grown to include more than 3,100 active master gardeners ...

White-tailed deer feed on gardens, landscape plants and trees, and agricultural crops. Deer damage has a rough or torn appearance. It does not look cleanly clipped. Deer damage is more likely when ...

You can direct seed both spinach and Swiss chard. You can also transplant Swiss chard. Spinach is day-length sensitive, while chard is not. Spinach and Swiss chard can grow new leaves after the first ...

Invasive trees and shrubs are non-native plants that can reduce property values, damage the environment and harm human health. Native woody plants also can be aggressive when they spread into areas ...

The agricultural industry widely uses urea, a white crystalline solid containing 46 percent nitrogen, as an animal feed additive and fertilizer. Here, we’ll focus on its role as a nitrogen fertilizer.

The potential for a response to zinc by crops has not changed despite increased zinc removal from high-yield crops. Crops vary in the potential for a response to zinc when fertilizer is applied to ...