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For most of the country, hay feeding is a necessary and expensive part of raising livestock – expensive in terms of production, harvest cost and in terms of valuable fertility removed from the soil.
The Thanksgiving holiday is almost here. How we look forward to this event has a lot to do with whether we are the dinner guest or the turkey. It’s a time to appreciate what we have rather than commiserate about we wish we had.
The Hundred Years War between England and France has nothing on me and my husband. We’ve fought for at least 35 years about whether something should be stored in the shop or in the garage.
Dairy farmers participating in the industry’s program to quantify animal care practices are continuing to improve the manner in which they adhere to the program’s standards, according to a new summary year in review report issued today by the National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF).
The SUNY Cobleskill (SC) dairy herd was presented recently with a Special Gold Certificate Award from Dairylea Cooperative Inc., in recognition of outstanding achievement in the consistent production of high quality milk for 12 consecutive months.
As one of the stops on the Progressive Dairy Operators’ (PDO) mini-bus tour in September, Athlone Farms Inc. opened its doors to allow visitors a look at its most recent expansion.
Instead of building another barn and hoping to purchase enough quota to fill it, Brian and Wendy Anderson, along with their son-in-law and daughter, Dennis and Heather Peters, and their son, Alex Anderson, opted to build an aerobic digester and start another business entity under the name Athlone Bio Power Inc.
Eighty years is a long time, in some cases too long – such as when agricultural fertilizer pollutes groundwater. That’s how long nitrates could leach into groundwater after their initial use, according to new research recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Elanco, the animal health division of Eli Lilly and Company, has announced it will purchase the Titanium and Master Guard brands from AgriLabs (AL). These cattle vaccine brands will complement the company’s growing vaccine portfolio, including the recently approved Viralign 6, the only modified-live combination vaccine that, according to the company, protects against bovine viral diarrhea (BVD) virus 1b.
The new HayBoss G2 600 Series automatic preservative application system, which has been developed as a joint engineering effort by AGCO and Harvest Tec, fully integrates with the tractor and baler’s ISOBUS system.
