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Anybody who runs a bale wagon will tell you how critical bale length is. A New Holland bale wagon, for instance, will pick up three bales and lay them end-to-end in the stacker.
Burns, Oregon, in the month of August is a series of sandy hills smattered with sparse, dead yellow grass traced with gravel roads that kick up grayish-yellow dust – until you reach the hay fields.
Cows don’t like to get stuck in muck. Many stressed-out dairy families are also seeking solutions to get transition plans unstuck and moving again. Fairness is a key challenge in the process.
Two of the main areas that need to be addressed to set a farm up for a successful future are succession planning and employee management. The plan to transition the farm from one generation to the next can either help or hurt a dairy operation, as can the strength and loyalty of the farm’s workforce.
The Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association (TSCRA) recently announced that current Executive Vice President and CEO Eldon White will be retiring, effective Sept. 1, 2018. He will continue on as executive vice president emeritus until officially retiring on Dec. 31, 2018, “to aid in a smooth transition.”
Effective immediately, Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) financial assistance program participants will no longer need a Dun and Bradstreet Universal Number System (DUNS) number or to register in the System for Award Management (SAM). The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2018 (2018 Omnibus Bill), signed by President Donald Trump on March 23, eliminated these requirements.
While the Margin Protection Program for Dairy (MPP-Dairy) has been getting most of the publicity, the recent improvement in milk futures prices is pulling the Livestock Gross Margin for Dairy (LGM-Dairy) program back into risk management strategies for larger producers.
On April 5, four young dairy producers from across the country participated in a panel presentation at the Canadian Dairy XPO in Stratford, Ontario. They discussed how they started in farming, their plans for the future and their thoughts on the industry.
Beef producers consistently look toward the horizon for new tools to help them improve their bottom line. The Red Angus Association of America (RAAA) has a long history of supporting commercial cattlemen and women who are dedicated to efficiently producing high-quality beef. The recent release of two new Red Angus EPDs, targeted at providing producers with additional selection tools to meet their goals, exemplifies this effort.
