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Debates about food and fuel are often framed in absolutes: Corn is either for ethanol or for livestock feed.

Simply achieving “sustainability” is not good enough. We must have the research, technology and production practices to go beyond sustainability.

But it’s still a volatile weather market for dairy producers who rely on purchased hay.

Four areas where you can make improvements.

Though agriculture has become increasingly volatile during the last decade and risk management has never been more critical to farm and ranch sustainability, farmers are lucky.

Dried distillers’ grains are familiar to livestock producers, who use them as feed. But an Alaska brewer has figured out a way to use them to make more beer.

Georgia wants more water. Here’s how they want to get it.

What if you could stretch your corn supplies a bit further?

When forage supplies are tight, emergency crops provide an opportunity to bridge the gap.

When forage supplies are tight, emergency crops provide an opportunity to bridge the gap.