The call to serve comes in different ways, but it came for Scott and Astrid Gottschalk through the telephone 20 years ago.

Lately the world is buzzing with talk of “climate change.” If the weather is too cold, it is global cooling. If the weather is too hot, it is global warming. The major flips back and forth in the weather has caused some debate in the scientific community. They can’t decide if it is global cooling or global warming, so they started calling it climate change.

Q: My water pump is slowing down, so I thought I would replace the impeller. How do I get it off? A:  (By regular contributor Brad Nelson) Most, if not all automotive water pumps have the impeller pressed onto the shaft. In easy layman’s terms, that means the shaft is just a smidgen larger than the bore of the impeller.

I had a lot of fun in college. And by fun, I mean club pizza parties and ice cream socials, of course. But then, I had to graduate and it was time to (kind of) grow up.

I could have either chosen to participate in the culture around me or stayed in my room and watched Internet TV. It was a line that became my defense to the people I explained this to, and one that I often repeated to myself.

A dairy farmer friend of mine told me that on his farm, “They don’t have preventative maintenance; they have crisis management.”

Tennessee weather can be unforgiving in its ability to deliver extremes, from the heat of the deep South to the winter cold of the North.

The U.S. Dairy Export Council (USDEC) and National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) continued to play an active role in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement process this week, as USDEC President Tom Suber testified before the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) as a representative of the U.S. dairy industry.

As the dairy industry continues to make strides in efficiency, producers across the country are showing it is possible to achieve a 30 percent pregnancy rate with a 30,000-pound herd average.

An early adapter to genomic testing is putting the numbers to work with both a high-producing commercial herd and a genetics facility.