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The grass-seed industry sees a couple challenges that don’t come with easy solutions. Each fall and winter we battle slugs and geese.
Slugs Willamette Valley grass-seed farmers have battled the gray field and garden slug for years.
The slug epidemic continues to grow, and the solutions are minimal. Slugs wipe out acres at a time with their appetites.
Natural Dairy Products Corporation has relocated from Avondale, Pennsylvania, to a new 30,000-square-foot facility in Newark, Delaware. It is Delaware's only certified organic dairy, according to an article by Karie Simmons in the Newark Post.
Molds damage silage quality, and in severe cases they lead to the development of dangerous mycotoxins that can make silage unfit for livestock consumption.
The first story that I wrote as a professional journalist was a feature story about a man who had prostate cancer.
You never forget a first. And I will always remember that story.
Dimock Farms
Peru, New York
Dimock Farms, a third-generation dairy farm in Peru, New York, was mentioned by newspaper outlet Denton Publications for an open house the dairy was holding as part of a joint effort with Cabot Creamery Cooperative, of which the dairy is a member.
Click here to read the Denton Publications article.
At the 2013 Western Dairy Management Conference,Joe Harner of Kansas State University presented a paperentitled “Scientific Data for Developing Water Budgetson a Dairy.”
Farmers, including dairy farmers, may act together in marketing their agricultural products. This includes collectively bargaining and establishing prices for their products. The Capper-Volstead Act of 1922 gives farmers the legal authority to do this.
There’s an old saying, “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks.”
What do you think? Would you agree?
Of course, you’re not a dog, and you probably don’t do any “tricks.”
The grass-seed industry sees a couple challenges that don’t come with easy solutions. Each fall and winter we battle slugs and geese. 
