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Sen. Al Franken (D-Minnesota) is urging U.S. Secretary of Agriculture to take action to help alleviate the shortfalls of feed for the state’s livestock. In a statement released by his office, Franken is pushing to waive a prohibition that prevents farmers from planting hay on prevented-planting acres.
Pennsylvania’s dairy promotion organizations celebrated June Dairy Month with the creation of a colossal ice cream sundae built recently during the Family Favorites Festival in Harrisburg.
Volunteers created the giant sundae using 90 gallons of Turkey Hill vanilla ice cream.
After 14 years, a well-known bull at ABS Global — End-Road PVF Boliver — has passed. Boliver was a favorite of everyone at the DeForest, Wisconsin-based bovine genetics and technologies company, said sire selection manager Ryan Starkenburg.
TechMix, along with Midwest Ag, is receiving the Agricultural Utilization Research Institute (AURI) 2013 Ag Innovator of the Year award for the new soy protein technology, NutriVance.
Keeping expenses in check and watching the price of corn were two discussion points before beef cattle producers attending the recent O.D. Butler Field Day at Camp Cooley Ranch.
Cattle organizations and trade partners to the U.S. gave a stern response to the USDA’s final rule on Country of Original Labeling laws, saying the new rule penalize Canadian and Mexican beef and cattle headed into the U.S.
Farmer investment last year reached $17 billion, including $4.1 billion they pulled from their own pockets. And before they received a single dime in crop insurance indemnity payments, farmers shouldered $12.7 billion in loses as part of their deductibles to crop insurance policies.
Fat Red Couch Founder and CEO Nicole Lundeen and children's book author Marsha Diane Arnold recently teamed up to present Arnold's book, "Prancing, Dancing Lily" as a book app. Listen as they describe Lily's story to Progressive Dairyman Editor Emily Caldwell.
Click here to learn more about how Arnold takes this book into classroom settings. PD
Thousands of dairy farmers in Minnesota and Wisconsin are scrambling to purchase feed from other states after losing nearly 2 million acres of alfalfa to a long, icy winter.
As Arkansans and others in the southern and midwestern states clean up after another round of destructive winds and flooding, the state’s livestock producers should not only scout fields for objects that can be a danger to grazing animals, but also check their herds for symptoms of “hardware disease.”
