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As a mediator, I’ve seen some pretty dumb agreements about the home yard. When you are deciding to move away or build a second home on the property, make sure you think things through with your lawyer and have some clear conversations with your successor.
Many dairy families have more than one home on the main yard, yet privacy is still an issue that you can design into your plans.
The common dairy practice is to separate a dairy calf from its dam at birth and place it in individual housing. This helps to protect the calf from pathogens and makes it easy for the calf raiser to monitor, but it limits social contact for the animal.
According to Margit Bak Jensen of Aarhus University in Denmark, early social contact to the dam or social contact to other calves during the milk feeding period has beneficial effects on behaviour and welfare; social contact to other calves also stimulates earlier and larger intakes of solid food.
ADM Alliance Nutrition, Inc. of Puerto Rico, a wholly owned subsidiary of Archer Daniels Midland Company, has announced the acquisition of two Puerto Rican feed manufacturers, NutriMix Feed Company and Granossa Corporation.
The acquisitions will provide ANI with a feed mill with port access in Puerto Rico as well as extensive storage, helping to strengthen the company's overall footprint in the Caribbean.
When you meet the 2012 recipient, you will be greeted with a smile and an outstretched hand. His life could have provided the lyrics to country singer Craig Morgan's popular "international Harvester" song.
"Son of a third-generation farmer, married to the farmer's daughter, lifelong sponsor of the FFA, two sons in 4-H, God-fearing man, making a lot of hay for little pay and chugging along in the combine with cars lining up behind him in the urban area he lives in."
The farm he and his wife now own has been in the family for over 162 years. This family never kept their "eggs" in one basket. The farm has continually made changes as the next generation came along. Growing up, eggs and potatoes were king. After school, he collected eggs for 10 cents a basket.
Another drought year ahead or not, adding more forages to the grazing mix helps during the annual summer slump, says a University of Missouri Extension forage specialist.
Rob Kallenbach advocates more alfalfa, although the legume called “the queen of forages” has fallen out of favor with some farmers.
• Kris and Carla Wardin of St. Johns, Michigan, were elected to chair the 2013 National Milk Producers Federation Young Cooperator (YC) Advisory Council. NMPF’s board of directors seated two new members: Donald De Jong from Dalhart, Texas, and Larry Webster from Buffalo, New York.
• World Dairy Expo has announced the official judges for the 2013 dairy cattle show:
Two years of drought have taken a huge toll on U.S. hay production. In the recently released USDA Annual Crop Production Summary, total U.S. hay production in 2012 was 120 million tons, down nearly 18 percent from the 2006-2010 average.
This is the lowest U.S. hay production total in data going back to 1974. This follows the 2011 hay production total of 131 million tons, down nearly 10 percent from the same five year average.
The American Feed Industry Association, along with the International Grains Program of the Department of Grain Science and Industry at Kansas State University and the National Grain and Feed Association, has again partnered to offer a course on HACCP.
The interactive course, held in Manhattan, Kansas, is taught by instructors who provide in-depth training on all aspects of the industry associated with feed manufacturing and feed safety.
At the beginning of each year, Holstein Canada announces the new crop of Master Breeders who are recognized as distinguished breeders amongst their peers.
This year, 21 Master Breeders will be honoured at the upcoming 2013 National Holstein Convention in Niagara Falls, Ontario.
When you meet the 2012 recipient, you will be greeted with a smile and an outstretched hand. His life could have provided the lyrics to country singer Craig Morgan's popular "international Harvester" song.
"Son of a third-generation farmer, married to the farmer's daughter, lifelong sponsor of the FFA, two sons in 4-H, God-fearing man, making a lot of hay for little pay and chugging along in the combine with cars lining up behind him in the urban area he lives in."
At the beginning of each year, Holstein Canada announces the new crop of Master Breeders who are recognized as distinguished breeders amongst their peers.
This year, 21 Master Breeders will be honoured at the upcoming 2013 National Holstein Convention in Niagara Falls, Ontario.
