With no room to expand at his home farm, Roelof Meilink built a new freestall barn near Red Deer, Alberta. It originally housed heifers, but the plan was to one day add on a parlour and move in the milking herd.

By now, producers across Canada will have received their annual reports package from CanWest DHI and Valacta. This package contains a summary of how the herd performed for the year 2017 in a number of areas and includes the popular DHI Herd Management Score (HMS) report.

And just when ag equipment sales had begun to turn around … President Trump tweeted in early March that “trade wars are good and easy to win. But every war has casualties,” regarding a proposed 25 percent tariff on imported steel and 10 percent tax on imported aluminum. 

If you’re a regular reader of this front page, you may remember Peggy Coffeen’s editorials from early 2017 about choosing one word for the year to represent what you most hope God will do in you and focus on it for the year. The concept is from the book My One Word.

If yogurt is made from milk that came from cows that ate feed including genetically modified corn, can it be labeled as “natural”? This was the question recently before a New York federal court.

Pinkeye (infectious keratoconjunctivitis) is the most common ocular disease of cattle, affecting one or both eyes.

How did you get started in photography? DEWITZ: I’m sure I have the same answer as most photographers about picking up our first camera as a kid and never putting it down. What really kept me interested with photography through the early years was railroad photography.

A century-old barn in southeastern Ohio that once provided milk for a state asylum has traded in cows for quilts and crafts.