Aggressive Deer & Bulk Feed Help

Aggressive Deer & Bulk Feed Help plus Food Forethought. I’m Greg Martin with today’s Northwest Report.

Having trouble with bulk feed ingredients? A new website called Feedpail.com can help. Ryan Cooney, the creator of the website says it can be used as a tool.

COONEY: With all the additional feeding ingredients producers are looking at it not only takes more time to manage those ingredients but it also takes a lot more time to research what’s available and what pricing is. That’s where Feedpail.com comes in. It basically helps producers source feed ingredients and gives them that information at their fingertips.

Residents near Preston, Idaho have been reporting a large, aggressive mule deer buck since last October that has threatened and attacked several people. One woman was attacked by the deer while on a stroll near her home. Also a man and two kids where threatened by the deer recently. Idaho Fish and Game officials have been trying to track down the aggressive mule deer and while it was threatening the man and kids was shot by a Fish and Game officer. One official said behavior like this is typical of deer which have been hand-raised or “tamed” by people. 

Now with today’s Food Forethought, here’s Lacy Gray.

After a life changing accident with a bicycle two years ago I finally found the courage to get back up on a bicycle and ride. First though, I had to buy a new bike as I had sold my previous bike immediately after the accident. With the soaring price of gas, overcoming my fear to get back on a bicycle was becoming a necessity. For years now people have had the notion that gas would always be cheap. Foresight is never as good as hindsight is it? Problem is, getting over that culturally ingrained notion is easier said than done. Even with gas costing more than four dollars a gallon now, many Americans seem bound and determined to continue driving gas guzzling vehicles. Sadly, many U.S. cities were built to accommodate cars, not pedestrians, and work can often be twenty or more miles away from home. It does seem though that cyclists and pedestrians may once again rival the number of cars on the road, and that makes it extremely important to restructure cities to be more accommodating to greener forms of transportation. “Two cars in every garage” is no longer a sustainable lifestyle, and perhaps no longer the American ideal.

Thanks Lacy. That’s today’s Northwest Report. I’m Greg Martin on the Ag Information Network.