From the moment you start baling to the moment the last bale is unloaded at your storage location, there are numerous benefits to making dense bales.

The series of severe droughts between 2007 and 2012 resulted in substantial decreases in cattle numbers – and enterprises – in the eastern U.S.

The football season draws to a close with months of preparation, strategy and planning culminating in a championship game.

The economic interest in enhancing the utilization of forage crops for dairy production has already been well demonstrated.

During the Dust Bowl, millions of farm acres were damaged by a combination of excessive tillage and wind erosion. Those damaged soils can still be observed while traveling through the region. They are most obvious on hilltops and side slopes of tilled farmland.

The calves you are raising today represent the future of your herd. “It takes a community to raise a child.” The same holds true for raising a calf.

As the dairy industry embraces automation, there is a shift to move calves indoors rather than house them outside in hutches. When moving calves into calf rooms or barns, the first question should be whether calves will be housed in groups with automated feeders or in individual pens with traditional nipple bottles.

From Feb. 2-5, Ottawa’s Fairmount Château Laurier played host to Dairy Farmers of Canada’s (DFC) 2016 Annual Dairy Policy Conference (APC).