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Lack of Senate action makes options for tax relief difficult The annual trip that profitable agricultural producers make to their local dealer, to buy equipment to write off on their taxes, is tainted this year by a tax situation that is up in the air.
This article is the second of a two-part discussion intended to explain the mechanics and organization of privatized forage discussion groups. See September’s issue for part one. Click here to read part-one.
Cattle trailers have begun rolling into Madison today, delivering 2,500 show cows to the Alliant Energy Center for the upcoming World Dairy Expo. To prevent possible disease transmission among the cattle, the health status of each animal must be verified before they are unloaded, and with the help of volunteer students from the University of Wisconsin – Madison School of Veterinary Medicine, this three-day process runs as smoothly as possible.
We asked Matt Jaynes, CLAAS Hay & Forage Product Coordinator, what myth about baling hay is perpetuated throughout the industry. This was his response.
Anybody who bales hay wants three things from the baler – speed, reliability and available parts with dealer support. Essentially, what producers are saying is they want their blood pressure to drop, their ulcers to subside and the weather to cooperate.
First, Lorilyn and her mother defied the odds and became the first mother-daughter Guernsey duo to each produce more than 40,000 pounds of milk per year.
On Sept. 2, the City of Jerome, Idaho, announced that Specialty Sales – a company based in Fresno, California that specializes in hoof health products for dairy cows – will invest more than $2 million to build and equip a 30,000-square-foot operation.
In a decision issued Sept. 4, Administrative Law Judge Jeffrey Boldt removed a major obstacle to the construction of the Richfield Dairy by resolving challenges to two high-capacity wells permits and a WPDES permit.
