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		<title>Sylvan Dale Receives Grant from Animal Welfare Approved</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 13:41:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sylvan Dale Ranch in Loveland, Colo. has been awarded funding to incorporate new breeding stock into the farm&#8217;s cattle herd. Animal Welfare Approved announced the 2012-2013 Good Husbandry Grants which help promote sustainable, forward thinking farming techniques and Sylvan Dale Ranch was among the 42 grants that have been awarded to farms and slaughter plants [...]]]></description>
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		<title>America&#8217;s Funniest Calf Videos &#8211; 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 23:26:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;It&#8217;s my first rodeo!&#8221;  This little calf, just hours old, puts on quite a show.  See the video here:]]></description>
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		<title>The Cattle Chronicles:  New born Calves</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 03:09:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Local Beef]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Monday, April 15. Springtime in the Rockies.  Hah!  We&#8217;re in the midst of the biggest snowstorm of the season, nine inches and counting.  We delayed our calving season this year on the theory that mamas calving in April and May (as opposed to our past practice of February-March) would fare better on the spring flush [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Cattle Chronicles:  First Calf of 2013</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 02:27:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Grass-fed Cattle]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wednesday, April 10, 2013. From Linda J: One sign of spring:  After helping move our fifty-five yearlings across the highway and onto Red Ridge, David J, Promise and I went into the Big Valley where the first little calf was just hours old.  A sweet looking little red heifer with ridiculously long eyelashes, was lying in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Super Bugs in your Meat</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 12:42:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Healthy Beef]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Every few months, an outbreak of sickness and death caused by lethal strains of E. Coli  and other “super bugs” makes the headlines.  These bacteria have become resistant to antibiotics.  Why?  One reason, according to scientists, is that unlike grass-fed beef, low levels of antibiotics are being routinely fed to industrially-raised cattle to make them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Livestock Improve Water Holding Capacity of Soil</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Mar 2013 15:20:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Eco-friendly beef]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here at Sylvan Dale we are using cattle to help build up organic matter and carbon content of our soils.  The technique:  planned, rapid rotation grazing.  It turns out this also helps the soil conserve water.  Here&#8217;s a post from Dr. Roy Roath, CSU Professor Emeritus, describing a grazing experiment he conducted on range land [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can Livestock Save the Planet?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Mar 2013 13:38:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Eco-friendly beef]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The world has a water problem.  More and more of the landscape in temperate zones is turning into desert.  The planet is warming due to greenhouse gases. Now along comes Allan Savory, the founder of holistic grazing management, claiming that herds of livestock can reverse these trends.  It sounds a little too good to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First “Pink Slime,” now Zilmax</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2013 14:40:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Healthy Beef]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Just when you thought mass-produced beef couldn&#8217;t get less appetizing (remember the “pink slime” hamburger controversy?), along comes Zilmax, a new growth drug being fed to feedlot cattle across the country.  According to author Christopher Leonard, Zilmax was originally developed to treat asthma in humans.  In feedlot-raised cattle, it produces faster muscle growth…and more profits.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cows have hang-ups too</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 19:32:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ranch Stories]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From June, 2012 Cows are more athletic than most people think.  They are also usually pretty sensible.  But every once in a while they do something really weird. This is number 601, veteran of five calving seasons, steady mama, six years in the herd without incident. Until last Tuesday. We had just finished separating cows [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Help Ranchers Improve Our Watershed?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Nov 2012 16:15:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Eco-friendly beef]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ecosystem Services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sylvan Dale Ranch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[water quality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[watershed]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In response to an article by Bobby Magill in the Ft. Collins Coloradoan about a new &#8220;Ecosystem Services&#8221; Conservation Effort in Larimer County, one reader questioned whether city dwellers should contribute funds to help farmers and ranchers reduce nutrient or sediment pollution that flows from their lands into the watershed.  Shouldn&#8217;t there be regulations that [...]]]></description>
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