The average American dairy cow produces more than 20,000 pounds of milk every year. Most of these cattle are Holsteins, a breed whose naturally high milk yield has been enhanced by decades of selective breeding. The U.S. dairy industry intensified selective-breeding efforts in the 1960s. Since then, the average milk yield in Holsteins has doubled, but there has also been a substantial reduction in fertility.

I was wounded. I got cracked across the bridge of my nose. Not that my nose needs to do anything to attract attention. As one friend put it, “Bax, if you’d lie flat on your back in the sun, we could tell time!”

Cold weather is coming. Are you prepared to provide exceptional comfort to your calves and replacement heifers this winter?

The work of reconstruction and development in failing states, like Iraq and Afghanistan, is difficult. The U.S. Government (USG) implements a policy of counterinsurgency; the U.S. military assumes the lead for defense, and in general the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development, USAID, develop the policy for implementing diplomacy and development, respectfully.

Back when 80,000 miles on a car qualified it for early retirement, I met a fellow who insisted that he regularly got over 250,000 miles out of a car. He was driving a ten-year-old Cadillac that he said had 150,000 miles on it at the time.

I recently spent a week back in Madison, Wisconsin attending World Dairy Expo. I really enjoy getting out and hearing what forage producers have to say.

When it comes to making hay in the high mountain valleys of Wyoming, few people do it better than Ervin Gara.

You prepare the land; purchase the seed and fertilizer; plant the crop; manage the pests; nurture that crop throughout the season; harvest when the crop matures or when the weather allows.

Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Georgia – even Germany. Like the Johnny Cash song, Jon Orr of Orrson Custom Farming Ltd. has been everywhere, man.

The landscape of the plains of eastern New Mexico and west Texas has changed considerably over the past two decades.