The headline sends a mixed, if not stirring, message — “Put More Nitrogen into Milk, Not Manure” — in this May 28, 2010 alert from the USDA Agricultural Research Service. (Thanks to Dan Vergano for alerting the world to this alert.) Here’s a screen grab:
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Buffalo milk news news
In the “It’s News to Us” department comes this item that comes as news to us. The Hyderabad News Network’s India News blog says (we will not say they “report”): A nominee to the Ignobel Awards worked on a paper some years ago to compute the energy joules used up in the entire traverse from […]
Ig Nobel acceptance speech: Named cows
A highlight from the 2009 Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony [AIR 15:6]: Acceptance speech for the prize for veterinary medicine [for showing that cows who have names give more milk than cows that are nameless] Peter Rowlinson: “I grew up on a dairy farm in Suffolk, 15 miles from Cambridge. I find myself geographically challenged being […]
Nutritive cardboard disks
Cardboard enthusiasts of a certain age may remember W. Schonherr’s somewhat influential 1958 study: “Nutritive Cardboard Disks Combined With Lattice Mesh Membrane Filter as Adjuvant in Hygienic Milk Supervision” [article in German], W. Schonherr, Zentralblatt für Bakteriologie, Parasitenkunde, Infektionskrankheiten und Hygiene, vol. 171, no. 8, June 1958, pp. 616-23.