Social media is like a difficult curve ball that even the best baseball player struggles to hit. It requires practice, willpower and a little luck to be an all-star. The average teen is spending up to nine hours a day on social media. It is more critical now than ever to be active on social media platforms.

As temperatures continue to increase, so does the anticipation for summer shows and fairs. When planning to exhibit any animal species, the most important requirement is having a healthy animal.

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U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue conducted a series of meetings with Canadian officials on June 5. Among other issues, Perdue raised the topic of U.S.-produced ultra-filtered milk and Canadian dairy ingredient pricing policy that has been a point of disagreement between the two countries.

June Dairy Month activities are well underway, but dairy producers will have to wait a little longer to celebrate a milk price improvement. Students are headed for summer vacation, so demand for fluid milk will be tested. With heat stress imminent, milk production will trend downward.

With three rambunctious boys, I’m thanking my lucky stars (and knocking on wood) that we’ve had relatively few serious illnesses or injuries. It was just a few weeks ago when Cooper burned his little toes and I found myself wondering if this was the accident that finally sent us to urgent care.

In April, U.S. red meat exports slowed moderately from the red-hot pace established in March but were still significantly higher year-over-year, according to statistics released by the USDA and compiled by the U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF).

A couple of years ago, Al and Sue Mensen spent a lot of their time milking cows. They were milking 110 cows in a 70-cow tiestall barn. The overflow cows were housed in a freestall barn and ushered to the milking barn twice a day, every day.

The Beef Improvement Federation (BIF) presented John and Gina Mundhenke of Mundhenke Beef near Lewis, Kansas, the BIF Commercial Producer of the Year Award on June 1 during the group’s annual meeting and symposium in Athens, Georgia.