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Depending on your operation’s setup, size and intent, allocating yourself an official salary can bring financial advantages and create opportunities.

Producers wear many hats, but not all hats fit or make the most financial sense. Examine your operation and determine if outside help is needed.

Organziation partners with the Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy on Farm Energy Efficiency project.

The New York native works as an extension agent educating people about consumer and commercial horticulture.

A specialist for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation recently discussed the issues critical to improving agricultural production in developing countries.

POET, one of the nation's leading ethanol producers, continues to develop new technology even as criticism mounts for an end to the federal ethanol mandate.

Edel, a lifelong Chicagoan, is the founder and executive director of The Plant, an evolving vertical farm housed in an old meatpacking plant in Chicago’s once-booming Union Stock Yards.

Agricultural and food companies are converting what were formerly thought of as waste products into profit centers, according to a new report, “Don’t Waste a Drop,”

Checkoff’s partnership with McDonald’s directly contributed to an additional 1.7 billion pounds of milk sold between 2009 and 2011.

The agreement provides certain exemptions for farmers in one state who cross into the other while delivering agricultural goods.

By using crop residue you can reduce erosion potential, increase water storage capacity and, with tillage and rotation tweaking, create a nitrogen credit for future crops by building organic matter.

The Kinze Autonomous Harvest System allows the combine operator to control the tractor and grain cart without having a driver in the tractor seat.

As Greg Dell reviews the three years he and his family have spent developing a succession plan for their Westminster, Md., farm, he remembers how overwhelmed everyone was by the process in the beginning.

Center-pivot irrigation systems, once thought to be suitable only for Kansas, Nebraska or California’s San Joaquin Valley, are going up in the eastern Corn Belt.

Yield losses due to compaction in tracked areas can range between 10% and 20%.

The adoption of federal legislation known as MAP-21 exempts the equipment and its operators from some Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations.

Organic growing practices, genetically modified organisms and other subjects are highlighted in this week’s segment.

Washington State dairy will install an anaerobic digester and sell the resulting electricity to a utility.

See how President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney answered the American Farm Bureau Federation’s farming questionnaire.

Providing on-the-job or professional training for your employees definitely requires a time commitment, but it is one that can provide huge dividends.

Biofuels, regs and trade in the presidential election.

What we talk about when we talk about climate change.

Awards honor the ‘best of the best’ dairies that manage environmental impact and contribute to local communities while building business value.

Producing food for an expected 9 billion people is a big problem, but how the message is framed and projected to the public is just as important.

Agriculture embraces sustainability for its business sense.

Shape-based analysis helps plug deficiencies in personality styles.

Everyone involved in agriculture—me included—needs to get past trying to define sustainability.

Goal is to seek long-term solutions for state’s struggling dairy industry, with recommendations developed by year’s end.

Only the individual dairy farmer – after much discussion with family members and input from lenders and other key advisers – can make the decision to exit.

The site reinforces the U.S. dairy industry’s important role in a safe, affordable and abundant food supply.

Researchers share deep knowledge of gypsum at the Midwest Soil Improvement Symposium.

The far southeast corner of the state will set all-time records for precipitation. These stations have data for over 100 years, including the Dust Bowl.

The key is to hedge regularly, but distant months.

The award program recognizes dairy farms, businesses and collaborative partnerships for their contributions to healthy people, healthy products and a healthy planet.

Supersized ships might spur trade opportunities.

The cumulative effects of sediment deposits from last year’s flood, coupled with receding waters this summer, are visible from space.

The race to create a better, less controversial biofuel has spawned plenty of research into a variety of potential new sources - including switchgrass, cornstalks and algae. One goal behind the next generation of ethanol fuel is to end the debate over whether crops that could be used for food or animal feed are being converted into fuel. It's a debate that's dogged traditional ethanol, made from corn. A team of Wisconsin researchers say they may have found an abundant and eminently Dairyland ingredient for ethanol - cow manure from the state's dairyfarms. Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a coalition of state firms have been awarded $7 million for bioenergy research that would use a manure byproduct to produce ethanol at a dairyfarm in Manitowoc County.The funding was awarded by the U.S. Energy and Agriculture departments through their joint biomass research-and-development initiative.

CHRISTOPHER DOERING, Gannett Washington BureauWASHINGTON -- Farmers and ranchers suffering through the worst drought to hit the United States in more than 50 years will receive additional help from the government, but Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack warned on Monday the department does not have the necessary tools to adequately help producers.USDA's latest assistance package will allow for haying and grazing to occur on Wetlands Reserve and Conservation Reserve land that have been impacted by the drought, including acres that are abnormally dry or suffering from moderate drought conditions. Until now only areas deemed to be in severe to extreme drought were eligible.

France and Israel topped the U.S. in the food quality and safety category of the Food Security Index.

Environmental Quality Incentives Program provided assistance to farmers who delayed silage harvest to help the rare birds.

After 60 years of chemical control, farming is entering an era of ecological control, driven by consumer demand and resistance issues found in farmer fields.

The three-dairy family operation will ship all its milk to Texas plant.

Dairies encouraged to apply for the $10,000 award.

Influx of younger dairy farmers bodes well for the economy and environment.

When you hire a new employee on your farm, you will benefit from making it a priority to provide an orientation.

The challenge of feeding a growing population in an efficient and environmentally friendly manner is changing the way agriculture does business. AgDay's Michelle Rook reports.

John Noble, a sixth generation dairyfarmer, got his first taste of the benefits of biogas about a decade ago, when he installed a small system on his Wyoming County farm.Now, Noble and a host of investors, including a handful of local farm families, are getting into biogas in a big way. Synergy Biogas, an entity owned by Florida-based renewable energy company CH4 Biogas, last week took the wraps off its new biogas power project, located on the 1,850-cow dairyfarm that Synergy owns in Wyoming County.

KINDERHOOK -- Eric Ooms remembers the financial "carnage" that hit dairyfarmers when milk prices soured as the recession took hold in 2009. "The price of our milk just collapsed. It was tough for a lot of people. "Now, the 37-year farmer is getting a breather as prices paid for milk have recovered to an all-time high. But he is hedging his bets, using some of that extra cash to buy a grain dryer so he can sell his excess corn for feed.

Dairy digester mixes manure with waste from local food processors to produce power.

The Department of Labor said it will withdraw the proposed rule dealing with children under the age of 16 who work in agricultural vocations.