The American Hereford Association (AHA) is proud to introduce the Maternal Advantage program – a genetically verified program that will be used to identify premium replacement females.

The term “successful” can be pretty subjective in its application, but many would argue that the term should be applied to TKunkel Dairy Farms LLC of Cuba City, Wisconsin.

Time is so valuable; time might be our most valuable possession because it has a finite limit. It can’t be manufactured or remodeled. It is spent and it is gone. While I recuperate from hip replacement surgery, I have some time to reflect on some topics that aren’t as easy to capture on paper regarding farming.

Digest Highlights: Wisconsin snowstorm losses mount. California FMMO timeline summarized. AMPI sets news cheese output record. Several processors plan expansions. Find a summary of this and other news here.

Milk production quota in five eastern Canadian provinces will be rolled back effective May 1 over fears of rising butter stocks.

People are pretty crafty when it comes to scheming up ways to receive a check for doing nothing. For the most part, farm kids are above quitting a job and looking for a handout. But with the pool of qualified available talent shrinking and the number of farms depending on labor outside of the immediate family increasing, it makes sense to put some rules in place for dealing with labor.

It’s May; we shouldn’t have to worry about heat – yet. Even with today’s technology, it seems the first heat event always sneaks up on us, and it can be costly.

Every time you process your cattle, you have an opportunity to impact Beef Quality Assurance (BQA) for good or for ill. Your goal as owner and manager should be to impact it for the better.

When National Beef Quality audits from three decades ago began revealing bruised carcasses and primals, butchers and retailers told industry representatives there was a problem – cancer in their beef cattle.

At the “Wagyu Olympics” in northern Japan last fall, Wagyu cattle from across the country competed for supreme standing among Japan’s most coveted cattle breed.