I don’t think there is a city block in Tonopah, Nevada, that is level. Tonopah is rich in silver mining history – complete with historic old hotels and at least a couple of parks full of antique mining equipment. The town sits a-straddle a high ridge with large flat areas of land on both the east and west sides.

With the spring planting season approaching, now is the time for forage growers to make sure their self-propelled application equipment is in proper working order and ready to hit the fields. Pre-season maintenance checks and advance planning can increase productivity by maximizing the uptime of your machines and avoiding costly breakdowns.

Several years ago, we decided to change things up a little bit on our place. My dad was getting older, the kids were starting to leave home for college, and I was spending more time away from home. It seemed like the ideal time to cut back on the number of cows we were running to ease the stress, headaches and burdens that accompany calving time.

Holstein Association USA (HAUSA) has launched a mobile website – a new way to use a mobile device to access Holstein information on the Web. Getting information from HAUSA with a cellphone or tablet is now much more user-friendly.

With the ever-increasing cost of making hay, more and more cattlemen are kicking the hay habit and pushing their cattle to graze more days of the year.

In response to recent concerns raised about the care of farm animals in research at the U.S. Meat Animal Research Center (US MARC), the Federation of Animal Science Societies (FASS) sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack on Feb. 19.

Most online readers said that their beef cows produce for 10 to 11 years.