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At the recent annual meeting of the National Association of Conservation Districts in New Orleans, keynote speakers included the expected –USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack and NRCS Chief Terry Cosby – as well as someone a little outside the box.
All dairy operators want to offer a quality product. Farmers providing raw, organic milk face additional challenges for keeping bacteria populations low.
Nicole Martin, Ph.D., from Cornell University’s Food Safety Laboratory, recently presented “Bacterial Populations in Organic Raw Milk
The acquisition of farmland by foreign entities has become a growing concern to a number of members of Congress. And purchases with ties to one nation in particular have spurred a sense of unease.
According to the USDA, Chinese
Each task on a dairy farm is important to the farm’s bottom line and depends on “things done right.” But it’s easy for employees to drift from the procedure, which can result in breaches in safety procedures, compromised animal
Grazing dairy farmers are constantly thinking about forages and nutrition. Planning for the grazing season means optimizing spring forages, finding ways of coping with the summer slump and strategizing for autumn.
Improving forages and forage utilization by enhancing quality
LANCASTER, PA – Robert Louis Stevenson said “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.” Harvesting knowledge with seeds of education and practical experience was the hallmark of the Pennsylvania Forage and
It was noted by Cody Lovercamp, USDA Risk Management Agency specialist, that there are currently 604 varieties of crops covered by USDA crop insurance, which includes livestock.
Lovercamp provided updates on some programs available for cattle producers – Livestock
American Farm Bureau Federation President Zippy Duvall got his start in the organization by joining his local Young Farmers & Ranchers (YF&R) Committee when he was a young man. Today, he leads a Farm Bureau family that’s 2,800 counties
GLADE SPRING, VA – With a 160-head cow-calf operation and close to 1,000 stockers on his farm in in the western foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Washington County, VA, Adam Wilson goes through a lot of feed.
For generations, the farmer’s common practice of aggressively tilling fields resulted in successful yields. In the current era, weather changes, economics and conservation efforts to improve soil health and sustainability have led many farmers to embrace a no-till system.
