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The awards will recognize dairy farms, businesses and collaborative partnerships for efforts that deliver outstanding economic, environmental and/or social benefits.
Even in red-ink-laden 2009, the ratio of Class III milk to corn was about 3-to-1. Next year it’s shaping up to be closer to 2-to-1.
Midwest Environmental Advocates and their clients have paid Rosendale Dairy for legal and expert witness fees to settle the dairy’s claim that MEA’s claims are frivolous.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is requiring that 13 dairies in and near Chino take preventative measures to avoid manure runoff before the winter rains.
USDA and World Wildlife Fund join the panel that will judge the newly launched awards program.
The Tillamook area producer agreed to restore and preserve more than 20 acres of historic wetlands to resolve a federal Clean Water Act violation.
Western United Dairymen wants leaders of the House and Senate agriculture committees to support funding for the USDA Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP).
Funding for the biodigesters is provided through the USDA Rural Energy for America Program (REAP).
A 500-cow dairy can potentially save from $2,000 to $7,000 every year through more efficient energy management.
Digesters create renewable energy, better manage manure, produce a steady supply bedding, and lessen their dairy’s environmental footprint by reducing air emissions and odor.
Pierre Sleiman, Jr., dreams of taking on the big boys with a nationwide network of local organic producers.
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.
The New York native works as an extension agent educating people about consumer and commercial horticulture.
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,”
Yield losses due to compaction in tracked areas can range between 10% and 20%.
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.
The Kinze Autonomous Harvest System allows the combine operator to control the tractor and grain cart without having a driver in the tractor seat.
Republicans and Democrats are under pressure to deliver meaningful immigration reform.
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.
Novozymes has signed an agreement with Natural Industries Inc., which is researching how soil microorganisms can help combat weeds, insects and other pests.
The Tracy Ranch marked the rare sesquicentennial milestone in 2012 validating the struggles of five generations of California farming.
The subsurface irrigation method, first adopted in the U.S. for vegetables, fruits and nuts, is supplementing and even replacing center-pivot systems for field crops.
The Farm Journal Foundation announced today that its nonprofit initiative Farmers Feeding the World is making its largest single commitment to date, giving $1 million to Heifer International.
To stay competitive for farm employees, producers are boosting benefits.
The need for increased food production and the role farmers will play in the issue was a hot topic at the Ag Issues Forum in Nashville, Tenn.
The government is trying to tell farmers and ranchers that it knows what’s best for your children.
Providing on-the-job or professional training for your employees definitely requires a time commitment, but it is one that can provide huge dividends.
See how President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney answered the American Farm Bureau Federation’s farming questionnaire.