DISEASES ON A FARM 

Do you like to drink milk? Do you want good fresh milk? I know that I want fresh milk when I wake up in the morning and drink some coffee or with my chocolate milk. Farmers that milk cows, have a really special and important job. The milkers have to take their job serious and must be very conservative. If they don't make sure that they pre dip and strip the tits to check for mastitis then when the milk company comes to get the milk and there is any mastitis then the truck driver from the milk company must dump out the whole tank of milk. Mastitis is an infection in the tit of a cow. You can tell if the cow has mastitis by looking at the milk when you strip it if the milk is bloody and chunky. After the milk gets dumped out the farmer must buy the whole tank of milk and usually when that happens the farmer goes bankrupted. Mastitis is something that is treatable if you catch it and treat it at the very beginning of the disease. Do you like to eat bacon with your eggs in the morning? Well there is a Virus called Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus (PEDV). This virus had its first outbreak in the United States in 2013. This was a horrible virus it killed thousands of pigs. Farmers lost a lot of animals and money. As soon as one pig got it almost immediately all pigs got it and died it less than an hour because they have very bad diarrhea and that drains out all of the fluids and the pig runs out of energy and dies. I love showing swine. I remember my first year showing in the summer of 2013. The leaders of my group were very protective about making sure the animals are always healthy. All swine was not to be hauled on trailer and exported to any other farms or butcher shops. We all love eating turkey and chicken on Thanksgiving right? Still going on today is a Flu called Avian Flu. The disease clobbered the state's turkey and chicken industries last spring with over $600 million in losses. Researchers are still not sure how this disease could have traveled to over 100 farms just in one state. Most poultry farmers are now getting smarter and are controlling the farms better and becoming more cleaner and protected on what goes on around the farms.  

RESOURCES: http://nationalhogfarmer.com/health/porcine-epidemic-diarrhea-virus-faq-and-survival-tips http://www.mprnews.org/story/2015/09/22/turkey-farms-avian-flu https://www.google.com/search?q=avian+flu+on+farms&biw=1366&bih=657&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj3mc6_qtDJAhWKlR4KHf8MAeoQ_AUIBygC#imgrc=xH0-kKbIl-fKwM%3A

BULLYING 

Bullying is occurring right now... At this minute... At this second... It can happen to anyone at any age, any race, and gender, anyone. Bullying is a crime that we all need to get under control. There is more than one type of bullying. Cyber bullying is now today most of the common bullying type. Its so easy for children to get bullied social media. Nearly half of students have experienced getting bullied or have been intimidated. Cyber bullying is type of bullying that everyone can see. It can be on any social media center, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter,Snap chat and Instagram. Even though Cyber bullying still happens, the rate has dropped to 21.5 percent. That's down from 27.8 percent in 2011, and a high of 31.7 percent in 2007. The percentage of students who reported being cyber bullied also fell to 6.9 percent in 2013, down from 9 percent in 2011. Female students also still consistently experience higher-than-average rates of victimization. Female students are significantly more likely than male students to be made fun of, called names or insulted (14.7 percent compared with 12.6 percent), to be the subject of rumors (17 percent compared with 9.6 percent) and to be excluded from activities on purpose (5.5 percent compared with 3.5 percent). Male students who were bullied were more likely than female students to be pushed, shoved, tripped or spit on.  Text messages spread like wildfire, messages and pictures can get sent to anyone with a phone. It can get sent in things called "group messages". Children who get bullied are scared to go to school and when they do go to school they are most likely found with a weapon so they can feel safe. Young kids are getting bullied at school on playground, in classes and in the halls. Teenagers are getting bullied online, and at school. Adult are getting bullied at work or in stores. There are plenty of movies that teach us about bullying. I have watch a movie called "Mean Girls" for a long time this movie is about 4 teenage girls in high school and they are called the "plastics".  Everyone looked up to them like they are some type of treasure. The Plastics have a burn book. The burn book is a book where they write things about every girl in the junior class and some teachers and then they glue the picture of the person they are talking about in the book. None of the rest of the school knew about the burn book until one day on of the plastics got mad at the other plastics and made over 5000 copies of the whole burn book and went and told the principle about it. At the end of the movie all of the junior girls had to meet in the Gym and they had to say something that was on their mind and then they had to do a trust fall. I think this movie teaches a lot about bullying. My personal opinion on bullying is that we have all done it before but its all none sense. I don't think that anyone personally needs to be bullying anyone it doesn't matter what its about. A lot of children get greatly affected by bullying. I just think we all need to get along and find the greatness in everyone instead of picking out all of the negativity in someone. If people didn't classify people and put people in to groups then I think the world would be some what better. 

 

 

 

Resources: http://www.thecrimereport.org/viewpoints/2014-10-study-finds-victimization-rampant-in-schools

http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/data-mine/2015/05/15/school-bullying-cyber-bullying-continue-to-drop 

https://www.google.com/search?biw=1366&bih=657&tbm=isch&sa=1&btnG=Search&q=bullying+#tbm=isch&q=mean+girls+&imgrc=aOyF70vrYr_FVM%3A 

Windmill energy

    

The windmill is one of the oldest ways to use and save energy. Farmers used windmills to pump water, mill grain by just using the power of the wind. The windmill is controlled by power. Its like a huge fan, and fans move things automatically and that's why there's a fan in a vehicle. If a car doesn't have a fan or your fan in the car stops working then you have no power. Windmills move because of the power of the wind. The British were the first to invent a windmill because they needed to find a quicker way to pump water. Windmills are everywhere they are on farms they are in random field they are behind big buildings. The help from windmills helped grow agriculture and make it a bigger boom. Windmills are still used today on farms. Windmills can help the lagoon and the water in the lagoon so they stay together in a liquid form. In World War Two was one of the windmills useful times because it was used to fed electric power to local utility networks and they called the Windmill "Grandpas Knob". In 1950s they used wind electric turbines to get cheaper energy and oil. Some people didn't think that was fair so they pushed the windmill to the sideline. 


























Resources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windmill
http://www.windmillworld.com/windmills/history.htm 
https://www.rockymtnrefl.com/WindmillFarmcd12956.html