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With increasing demands for specialized meat, small processing plants have the opportunity to fill profitable niche markets.
At Wheat College, our agronomic team will present lessons you can take directly to the field.
Four basic business management principles can help drive your farm’s growth.
New online features allow you to get answers to your employment questions.
This conventional grain producer goes organic for better returns.
To bee or not to bee is not the question. How to attract natural pollinators is and a new program aimed at luring back our working insects might be an answer.
Aid for poultry, aquaculture producers also included
During processing, it’s easy to go through the same old routine without giving much thought to things you’ve done many times before. Take some extra time, however, to look at the labels on the animal health products that you administer to your cattle to improve efficacy and maximize your investment. The illustration below highlights the parts of a label that contain important information.
With good growing conditions this summer and an outlook for big crops, the hope was that feed costs for 2011 would be low. But high feed exports and renewable fuel demands are clouding that once sunny picture.
Dairy producers across the country have complained about low milk fat this year, though nutritionists have been hard-pressed to explain it.
If your nutrition is out of sync, then nothing else matters.
Nutrition is the key to milk production, and forage quality is the key to good nutrition. We use two main forage sources, triticale haylage and corn silage.
Growing and harvesting high-quality forages have gone from being simple things to real challenges.
We have always invested heavily in both feed storage and forage harvesting equipment.
Tips for weathering the economic downturn. Ag lending: visit banker early, communicate often, keep good records, build cash, negotiate rates. Cash rent renegotiation may be in order. Land price rise may be slowing; what the rent-to-value ratio means. What it costs to hire a college grad. Natural gas price down; fertilizer is a good investment.
A properly equipped and maintained planter makes the difference between success and failure
Sustainability: feeding the world with the resources available.
Lack of leadership may be the single biggest void in today’s agricultural operations.
Jerry Jennissen has proven that you can benefit from a methane digester even when you milk 150 cows.