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(L) Some of the most evident damage from pigs results from when they root around for food (seen here to the grass at Toro Park). Pigs’ noses are so sharp they can smell water on grass and small insects and nuts underground. (UR) Just as the sun rose on the morning of Saturday, July 31, hunti
Srikalahasti MLA B. Madhusudhan Reddy at the inauguration of a veterinary ambulance in Srikalahasti on Tuesday. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
Srikalahasti legislator Biyyapu Madhusudhan Reddy has appealed to the officials to popularise the emergency veterinary helpline ‘1962’
Minister for Cooperation I. Periyasamy giving a tree sapling to a beneficiary under Kalaignar All Village Integrated Agriculture Development Programme at Seevalsaragu in Dindigul district on Monday.
Minister for Cooperation I. Periyasamy distributed farm equipment to farmers under ‘K
Community members pray at a vigil for the 21 victims in the mass shooting at Rob Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.
There is a heaviness in the air. At least that’s the way it feels to me in these days after Uvalde. Maybe it does to you, too.
Part of the feeling, of course, is t
• Three people were jailed under large secured bonds this week after allegedly stealing building materials valued at $2,946 from the Lowe’s Home Improvement store on South Andy Griffith Parkway, according to Mount Airy Police Department reports.
In addition to taking that pro
Taking a Break From Politics While Watching Bird Brains
As a farm boy I always enjoyed feeding our animals and birds after helping to prepare the foods they all enjoyed, whether it was corn on the cob for pigs or silage chopped up for the cows for their winter buffet. Sometimes the horse
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Each day, Tyson Loewen rises at 5 am and heads to the four chicken houses on his Guntersville, Alabama, farm. For the next 5 hours he studi
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It was a bizarre coincidence to stand in a queue to purchase three packets of Palawatte milk powder while I was visiting Sri Lanka as a member of the Dutch business delegation which is planning to invest in the Sri-Lankan dairy industry.
Milk and milk products have always been an integra