In 1987, Ale and Hilly Riedstra and their family purchased a 30-cow dairy operation with their sights set on expansion.

Composting beef cattle manure, even with minimal management, can significantly reduce the concentrations of antibiotics in the manure, according to an Agricultural Research Service (ARS) pilot study.

In June 2007, a demonstration of the Microbially Assisted Regeneration System (MARS) was conducted at Bingham County’s Rattlesnake Landfill Site east of Firth, Idaho.

BACKHUS 16.30 compost turner BACKHUS has developed a new product for aerated windrow composting.

I lost a tooth today. The molar on the northwest side next to my only wisdom tooth that ever came in. Which explains why sometimes I go over the edge of common sense.

I’m most recently impressed by examples of producers and allied industry organizations doing due diligence to defend the dairy industry and its future.

What should we do when we are confronted with a bad news story or negative perception of the industry or milk prices are rock bottom (or under the rock that marks rock bottom)? Bad news happens.

Dairy farming and baseball are very similar. In both baseball and dairy farming you have to learn the fundamentals and apply them every time you step on the field.

The following is part of a letter sent to members of Congress by Robert E. Gilbert, Chairman of A. L. Gilbert company.

When we lived at our previous house, I wanted to build a garage. The building that was supposed to be our garage, a small barn-like 1930s-era building, ceased being a garage after a small earthquake shifted the foundation so that the sliding doors no longer opened wider than a few feet.