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Wednesday, Oct. 16 is World Food Day. Here are ways you can participate, including a unique opportunity to thank farmers.
Trump says his immigration crackdown won’t hurt agriculture. We’ll see.
Too many farmers take costly shortcuts when adding employees. Here are some blunders to avoid.
School’s out (or soon to be out), and young people in your community may be soon asking for a summer job. It’s a great opportunity for a young person to learn more about agriculture, according to Chris Zoller, Extension educator with The Ohio State University. But that’s not all.
Mark Baker doesn’t mess around when it comes to teaching volunteer firefighters how to rescue someone trapped in a grain bin. Even when it’s a carefully controlled situation.
High input costs led to shortage of organic milk supply in 2011.
Spending time with Paul and Phyllis Van Amburgh and their five children on their Dharma Lea dairyfarm can make life here appear enviable.Sure, the work is hard and the days are long. But the Van Amburghs get to spend time together and they enjoy a close relationship with the land and their animals.But that’s the pastoral version of life on a small family farm. And the Van Amburghs, now in their fifth year, know that farming -- dairyfarming, especially -- is mainly about survival.
An ambitious planning application for Britain’s largest dairy farm, resubmitted Nov. 18, reveals significant changes.
Farm Journal Media has a diverse line up of co-located events and programs as well as breakout sessions.
California dairies combine for manure-to-energy benefits
The Agriculture Nutrient Policy Council releases report raising questions about data to set pollution limits for the Chesapeake Bay Watershed.
Funding deadline set for March 4, 2011.
Rock Creek Dairy project is the fourth digester in Idaho’s Magic Valley and the first to take effluent from multiple sites.
It was below freezing as an “AgDay” photographer and I toured Brubaker Farms in early December. But we quickly warmed to the Brubakers—patriarch Luke, sons Mike and Tony—this year’s Innovative Dairy Farmers of the Year (see “Power and Profit,” page 8).
A methane digester and solar panels power Brubaker Farms, 2011 Innovative Dairy Farm of the Year.
America’s largest cooperative of organic farmers has distributed a $5.3 million cash payment to members.
The state agency that regulates Oregon’s $473 million dairy industry has given kudos this month to three dairy operations that have gone above and beyond the call of duty in protecting water quality.
State ag commissioner touts program that offers up to $25,000 to convert hot water from electric to solar.
The world’s rising temperature is slowing production of major food crops, and as global warming continues, the trend will significantly disrupt the economies of many countries and impair the health of their people, Stanford researchers say.
Agreement focuses on the development of sustainability best management practices.
Groups tell Congress that historically tight supplies of grains and oilseeds make program change imperative.
Gov. Deval L. Patrick yesterday visited Jordan Dairy Farm to highlight a project that produces methane gas from cow manure.
Fair Oaks Farms’ new fleet will be nation’s largest long-haul operation using renewable energy.
Pasture-grazing operations are becoming less foreign to Missouri as they prove to be a profitable trend.
The well-monitoring effort is the most ambitious in the history of California’s dairy industry, and is the first such program of this scale in the U.S.
Porter Family honored with Agricultural Environmental Management Award.
Method saves fuel, labor and equipment costs, also reduces soil disturbance and dust.
The Tillamook area producer agreed to restore and preserve more than 20 acres of historic wetlands to resolve a federal Clean Water Act violation.