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Planting certain crops may help contain nitrogen, preventing it from contaminating drinking water. That’s what a group of researchers are studying in northwest Iowa, according to an Associated Press article.
To some, banning chocolate milk from elementary schools seemed like a good idea, but new Cornell University research shows that removing chocolate milk from school menus has negative consequences.
Workplace violence is a significant occupational health and safety issue and occurs when workers experience verbal abuse, verbal/physical threat of assault or physical assault, which includes fatal and non-fatal injury, as well as adverse emotional consequences in the absence of a physical injury.
Despite the still chilly temperatures in Green Bay, Wisconsin, more than 300 calf and heifer growers and industry representatives attended the 2014 Dairy Calf and Heifer Association Conference April 1-3. The new conference format included two afternoons of bus tours, with several on-farm presentations at each stop.
As winter fades into spring, calves face a changing climate. Dairy producers can reduce the stress of the impending warm weather by implementing simple strategies to their daily calf care regiment.
The King Ranch Institute for Ranch Management (KRIRM) recently began a new leadership program during the 2014 National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) convention and trade show.
A recent research article published in the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association’s quarterly magazine caught my attention. The researcher, Brian E. Roe, wanted to answer the question: How well do farmers tolerate risk?
Pete Olsen (pictured below), who partners with his brothers Eric and Neil Olsen at Hillside Dairy in Fallon, Nevada, was recently interviewed by NPR’s Kirk Siegler for a story about drought conditions in the West.
Olsen said his experience was positive and helped to tell the plight of dairy farmers in his neck of the woods.
