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After 27 years as marketing and promotions coordinator for the nonprofit Allied Milk Producers’ Cooperative Inc. (AMPC), 84-year-old Dorothy Naugle is stepping down.
The 2013 National Red & White Convention, sponsored by the Red & White Dairy Cattle Association (RWDCA), will be Aug. 13-15 in Dunkirk, New York. Theme of the convention, hosted by Darren and Heather Carlstrom, is “Fine Cows and Fine Wines, both of the Red and White Kind.” A list of activities include:
The FDA approved that two Zoetis products can now be used together to improve the reproductive performance of dairy herds. Approved is Factrel sterile solution for use with Lutalyse sterile solution to synchronize estrous cycles for fixed-time artificial insemination in lactating dairy cows.
If you like ice cream, you’ll appreciate the Ice Cream Churn-a-ment, a friendly competition sponsored by the Dairy Farmers of Oregon. This year’s event is scheduled from noon to 1 p.m. July 12 at Portland’s Pioneer Courthouse Square. The event is free to the public.
Oregon State University has selected a weed management specialist with the Extension Service for a major endowed professorship.
Andrew Hulting began July 1 as OSU's fourth Hyslop professor. He will serve in the role for five years.
Hulting will train graduate students to work on weed management projects, including in-depth studies of grass weed species, such as annual bluegrass and roughstalk bluegrass.
There is no shortage of quotable quotes regarding the topic of change. The only constant is change. The more things change, the more they stay the same. Change before you have to.
One I like comes courtesy of Despair Inc., accompanied by a photo of a tornado: When the winds of change blow hard enough, the most trivial of things can turn into deadly projectiles.
There is plenty of research regarding the economic impact of flies on cattle. “The loss is always in the hundreds of millions of dollars range, which is hard to comprehend,” said Eldon Cole, a livestock specialist with University of Missouri Extension.
Agricultural water: A national issueAgriculture shapes the fabric of the U.S. The world has no match for our Midwest breadbasket, vast rangelands, irrigated fruit and vegetable farms, carefully sustained timberlands, and southern cotton fields.
American agriculture, in its varied abundance, feeds, clothes, and provides us with renewable fuels. It shaped and sustained us in the past, provides secure and abundant food and fuel today, and will determine our future.
The Red Angus Association of America and the American Simmental Association are again teaming up to gather forward-thinking producers at the eighth annual Young Guns Conference, July 17-19 in Loveland, Colorado.
Oregon State University has selected a weed management specialist with the 