iForeman is a new grain cart application that can link your grain cart to your smart device for live data on the move.

If the pictures by Valerie Miller, Emma Caldwell, Bonnie Mohr and Lisa Rasmussen were each worth 1,000 words, bovines could at last speak. While their vocalizations still remain untranslatable, the subjects of these artists’ paintings possess a personality all their own.

Temple Grandin answered questions from users of the social forum Reddit's /r/science section on Monday, Nov. 17. Grandin's responses dealt with topics ranging from autism to cattle to life as a woman in the industry. Here's some of the questions she answered:

On Oct. 22, the USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) announced nearly $1.25 million in grants for research and extension to improve alfalfa and forage yield and seed yield of crops grown for propagation; improve persistence of plantings; reduce pest pressure for both forage and seed production; improve genetic quality of commercial cultivars; and reduce losses during harvest and storage.

If there were a snake in the truck, many readers would take advantage of the situation and let it eat the mice. But there were plenty of other reactions to Progressive Forage Grower’s comical poll question: “If you find a snake in your truck cab, what do you do?”

There were 229,237 farms with 55.3 million irrigated acres in the U.S., according to the 2013 Farm and Ranch Irrigation Survey results, published on Nov. 13 by the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). The report also showed that the number of farms with irrigation declined from the 235,715 published in the 2008 irrigation survey.

Here’s a look at the Progressive Cattleman stories that gathered the most online traffic over the past year.

Over the years that I have worked with farmers on their dairy cow, calf and heifer diets, I have come to realize that I was not feeding the cow as much as I was feeding the microbial population in the animal.

Kathryn Carruth has been hired as the new executive director of the American National CattleWomen Inc. (ANCW). She is relocating to Denver from England where she has just completed her master’s in international rural development: sustainable agriculture and food security at Royal Agricultural University.

According to the Terrace Standard, the Chinese plan to build an alfalfa protein extraction plant on the land they just purchased at the Skeena Industrial Development Park from the City of Terrace, British Columbia. The facility will employ 170 workers.