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It doesn’t take much to get a steer’s attention. When Paulo de Meo Filho wants them to eat, all he has to do is stir their feed and they’ll trot over for a few bites. Getting the steers to eat is important because he’s trying to study the impact of diet on the animals’ methane emissions. As the day-to-day operations lead for the research, De Meo Filho has spent months carefully measuring and monitoring the feed eaten by the research steers, housed at a University of California, Davis, feedlot. Different bins hold different feed for the test cattle.
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Fortunes went from bad to worse this year for California cherry growers. Each year, growers in the state harvest the nation’s first cherries during a short window, usually from late April to early June. This year, an early heat wave impacted fruit set in many orchards. Then, rainstorms in April and May battered the crop.
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For young 4-H and FFA livestock exhibitors, the county fair auction ring is the reward for months of hard work, investment and responsibility—unless their animals don’t attract buyers. But thanks to community coalitions that step in to purchase no-bid animals, kids can be spared this disappointment and financial loss.
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It all started with Karina Sparks’s father. More than 20 years ago, he began working with the Winters Joint Unified School District to provide students with the oranges he’d long been growing on their Yolo County family farm. “It was like a pioneer thing, because nobody was doing it,” Sparks said.
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