The Affordable Care Act, which is better known as Obamacare, was signed into law on March 23, 2010, and was upheld by the Supreme Court on June 28, 2012. Over the last year or so, I have heard arguments from proponents and adversaries of Obamacare.

I’ve always liked politics – but I’m not so sure anymore. Every time I turn on the news, it appears that our country’s political differences run deeper and deeper every year. I know, times aren’t really all that different from the past. But from where I sit, it seems like our country is divided over almost every issue.

I am sitting in a conference room with a company’s CEO and his father. The father is the founder and chairman of the board. I had made a presentation about performing an organizational development evaluation for their business to help them focus their investment on people.

Having an effective safety program is essential. It helps protect your employees, lowers your costs and increases your profitability. For operations that involve working with and around animals, such as dairies, the program should incorporate safety practices and precautions related to zoonotic diseases, which are those diseases that can be transmitted between humans and animals.

Progressive Dairyman Editor Emily Caldwell recently connected with Joy O’Shaughnessy, director of the Women in Agribusiness. The group recently held its second annual summit October 22-24, 2013, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

This November, the symbol for men’s health awareness is right under your nose. Well, any nose with a moustache. The moustache is rapidly becoming the rallying symbol for prostate cancer like the pink ribbon is for breast cancer.

Earlier this year, the Progressive Dairyman staff came across @DairyGirlProbs, a Twitter account dedicated to sharing funny, sarcastic and off-the-cuff quips from life on the farm. The account used the hashtag #dairygirlproblems with these clever posts.

“Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good.” This quote was one that hung on my bulletin board in college as I studied animal science, preparing to enter the world of dairy cattle nutrition.