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The mobile app features an easy to use heat stress calculator for inputting the current temperature and humidity readings.
Wait until your crop is growing vigorously to take stand counts.
Large dairy operations tend to have lower green house gas footprints because of more efficient feed conversion.
Net returns per cow averaged $293 in 2012, down from $524 in 2011.
New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra to pay Danone for recall
Food box idea draws criticism from Democrats, advocates
From comfort to high-tech: Food a serious quest at Olympics. And you won’t believe how much they’re going through.
Major opportunities are aligning for bamboo production in the United States, and even a small slice of the global market could bring windfall profits to American agriculture.
On the edge of Belarus’ Chernobyl exclusion zone, down the road from the signs warning “Stop! Radiation,” a dairy farmer offers his visitors a glass of freshly drawn milk. Associated Press reporters politely decline the drink but pass on a bottled sample to a laboratory, which confirms it contains levels of a radioactive isotope at levels 10 times higher than the nation’s food safety limits.
Joanna Carraway is the 2013 winner of the Tomorrow’s Top Producer Horizon Award.
Louisiana lawmakers have killed an attempt to lift the state’s ban on sales of unpasteurized — or “raw” — milk for the third year in a row.
A Vermont dairy farmer has partnered with a local wind developer to bring a 2.2-megawatt wind turbine to his family’s farm in Holland, Vt.
Study will look if bacteria has antibiotic resistance and whether bacteria survive manure processing and storage.
It’s time to have a conversation about flatulent cows.
A conservation tillage pioneer defies skeptics to reap tangible benefits for his farm, his dairy and the environment.
A public-private partnership helps dairies save California’s endangered Tricolored Blackbirds.
Applications for the $10,000 award must be postmarked by July 10, 2015.
The dairy industry is increasing food production in a sustainable manner while meeting consumers’ expectations for improved health and well-being of dairy animals, say experts in Journal of Dairy Science.
New research shows antibiotic treatments of hoof lesions can trigger milk residues.
For Nate and LouAnn Robinson of Jake’s Country Meats in Cass County, Mich., the supply and demand situation doesn’t matter: Their prices for their pasture-raised pork stay the same.
Producer Jared Fernandes has saved $125,000 in his operation’s first year of solar power.
Green Mountain Power has partnered with a family farm to set up its third wind turbine to save money on electricity.
Deadline for the $10,000 land stewardship award is July 10.
Dairy farms and businesses are changing the equation for sustainable business practices.
Two California dairies win state grants to build innovative, energy-producing biogas projects.
Sustainability, consumer perceptions and building consumer trust discussed during first day of the 2015 Animal Agriculture Alliance Stakeholders Summit.
California will begin regulating greenhouse-gas emissions tied to dairy cows and landfills under legislation signed Monday by Gov. Jerry Brown.
Manure spills can occur during the storage, transportation and application of manure. Advanced planning can minimize the impacts of a manure-related emergency.
Yogurt-maker Dannon catches heat for new GMO policy
The shotgun houses and clapboard shacks are gone, but a child’s toy lingers in farmland rows. Time, tillage and rainfall reveal the sharecropper’s last testament: clusters of magnificent clay, agate and glass marbles.