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have an upper body injury, phone your vet. <= /p> SELF FILL We now have available on any Houle tank, the option of self filling with out getting out of the= tractor. They are comprised of a side scissor boom which lower and raise d= irectly behind the tractor and to the side of the tank. We are not using a = vacuum. Once the hydraulic siphon is activated within 10 to 15 seconds the = boom is full, which is directed to the same pump that does the unloading. O= ur first one, a 9500 us gal. at Atson Farms is filling (depending on the co= nsistency of the manure) between 4 and 6 minutes. Well worth looking at, it= could cut your manure spreading time in half. NEW ZEALAND New Zealand has set up a special 1 billion dollar fund to boost th= e competitiveness of its food and farming sector. New Zealand is known for = its sheep and dairy industries. The fund will be spent on research and deve= lopment, and supporting innovations. They claim they need to lift their lev= els of innovation on the farm, in the factory and in the laboratory to keep= ahead of the rest of the world. (Ontario Framer) HOULE MEETINGS Jim Peters, Bill Braak and myself attended Houle dealer meetings i= n Reno, Nevada with the Western US Dealers. It is certainly good to find ou= t what's |
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SLOW COOLING With the inevitable warm and even hot weather around the corner, i= s your cooling system ready? If you are on the edge, here are some things t= hat can affect your cooling on the negative side of the ledger
There are solutions. BIG SWIM In Canberra, Australia a 2 year old bull was rescued after being c= arried 40 miles or 70 km down a raging swollen river during flooding in eas= tern Australia on Jan 9, 2008. “Barney” the bull’s name, = was washed from a farm in New South Wales state and rescued the next day on= its way to the ocean. This would be like going from Rosedale to Richmond i= n the Fraser River. (Capital Press) PLAYOFFS Does any animal in your herd have a lower body injury? Try our new= automatic foot baths. If any |
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new with the Houle product line and be able to soci= alize and compare ideas with dealers from Washington, Texas, California, Or= egon and Arizona. Main News:
FOLK MEDICINE A traditional Finnish Folk medicine derived from spruce trees and = unsalted butter may help heal hard to treat bedsores. In a new study = researchers led by Dr. Aro Siponen of the Rheumatism Foundation Hospital in= Heinola, Finland, found that this combination of spruce and butter healed = bedsores faster than standard modern treatments. (Reuters) SPIN VALVE In talking to some Texas dealers many of the large dairies install= flush valves, which when activated, are stood upon by their Mexican employ= ees, who first let the flush valve flood towards the high sides of the parl= our deck and then they turn them by swinging their bodies to allow the rest= of the water including the deck water to flush down the holding area. We w= ill not be doing this. |
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