As if the recent pet food scare wasn't bad enough. Acetaminophen is a human pain reliever, and should not be in pet food, as it can seriously harm pets. However, vets say if your dog or cat starts vomiting or appearing ill, the first thing you should do is change its food. Lab tests have found a pain killer in some pet food! You can send a story to multiple email addresses by separating the email addresses with a semicolon (;) This station will not store your email address or your...

Making the most of rainfall for forage producers particularly for bermuda grass means fertilizing. If grass is properly fertilized, producers can attain significantly more forage with less rainfall compared with non-fertilized bermuda. That means we need to manage our forage supplies so that when an extended drought hits, we can avoid or at least moderate the kind of problems many producers faced last year, he said. Long-term weather patterns, Woods said, are fairly predictable and...

SPONSORED BY: Animal control requests dry pet food donations By Andrea Damewood The Register-Guard Published: Thursday, June 7, 2007 Lane County Animal Regulation Authority is looking for donations of dog and cat food after kennel employees were forced to throw out the shelter's entire supply. The Register-Guard, Eugene, Oregon, USA Subscriber Services Start Home Delivery. SPONSORED BY: Animal control requests dry pet food donations By Andrea Damewood The Register-Guard Published:...

Food and Drug Administration to stop using the industrial chemical melamine to make binding agents that end up in feed for farmed fish, shrimp and livestock. Montreal-based Tembec acquired the resin company then known as Toledo BTLSR inc. in 2003 because it was seen as a good fit with its rapidly expanding resin business, Tembec consultant and former chief executive officer Frank Dottori said in an interview Thursday. Montreal-based Tembec acquired the resin company then known as Toledo...

Pet rescues are feeling the pinch since the pet food recall began. In fact, one Houston Poodle rescue has reported that their donations are down 90 percent since the pet food recall began. It has a huge pet overpopulation problem and as the "no kills" usually turn away most of the animals brought to them, the ones faced with euthanasia have higher numbers to feed, especially in the warmer months. The rescue was forced to throw out much of the food that they had on hand when the recall...

Hay, whether in the form of high nutrition alfalfa in the United States or roadside grass in some parts of the world, is harvested and stored for winter animal feed. A man with a fork fed the hay from a pickup into the machine while yet another drove the tractor. In 1953 a truly landmark event took place in the raising of hay on the farm: UW-Madison released Vernal, a hybrid alfalfa (the result of cross breeding 11 parental clones) that was winter hardy, bacterial wilt resistant, high...