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Experts will help ranchers consider the importance of mineral nutrition for their cattle herds at a special one-day symposium.

EQIP funds can provide cost share funds for conservation practices such as a water trough system in pastures to allow additional cross fencing and sensitive wetland protection.

Wednesday, Oct. 16 is World Food Day. Here are ways you can participate, including a unique opportunity to thank farmers.

The day-long event, which includes a dairy panel, will explore trends in energy rates, renewable energy and energy efficiency opportunities.

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.

Neglecting these in dairy rations can have lasting impacts on cow health.

Spent grain from craft brewing is popular as livestock feed, but it has several other interesting uses.