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Figuring out how to grow, harvest, store and feed-out good hay crops and corn silage is key to managing your dairy’s risk.

Greek yogurt maker Chobani says a newly installed reverse-osmosis filtration system at its south-central Idaho plant will reduce the company’s consumption of water by 20 percent.

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.

Half of the Earth’s land mass is made up of rangelands, which include grasslands and savannas, yet they are being transformed at an alarming rate.

Such crop switching is one sign of a sweeping transformation going on in California--the nation’s biggest agricultural state by value--driven by a three-year drought that climate scientists say is a glimpse of a drier future.

Governor Jerry Brown and California Democratic lawmakers enlisted business support of a $7.2 billion plan composed mostly of new bonds for water storage and delivery to drought-stricken cities and farms.

Hint: This Midwestern state is more commonly known for growing corn and soybeans.

‘Super haylage’—with a NDF undigested 30 score of less than 15%--means more milk.

Reduce threats from instability and shrink to corn silage.

“Why do you insist on bashing organic farmers?”