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Bart Op den Kelder started milking in Canada in 1999, after moving from the Netherlands with his family in search of greater opportunity in the dairy industry.
Overall unit sales of agricultural tractors and self-propelled combines in July 2020 were positive for the fourth month in a row in the U.S. and remained positive for the second consecutive month in Canada according to the latest data from the Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM).
This worker bee never shows up late or calls in sick. It quietly does its job consistently and reliably, pushing up refreshed feed to cows and delivering an extremely short payback period to farmers.
In normal times, markets would be focused on yield and production as summer winds down. However, in a year when a virus and politics seemingly infect everything, even hay isn’t immune.
When most of the U.S. went under quarantine in early March, many spring ag educational meetings, trade shows and conferences were rescheduled, cancelled, or turned into virtual meetings.
The USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) announced on Aug. 7 changes for emergency haying and grazing of acres enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP). This includes changes outlined in the 2018 Farm Bill that streamline the authorization process for farmers and ranchers.
As I’ve mentioned before, I really like being a tobacco farmer because it is steeped in traditions we don’t see as much with more modern agriculture. One of those traditions is manual weed control.
Lactanet Canada and Dairy Farmers of Canada (DFC) announced DairyTrace, the much-anticipated national dairy cattle traceability program, will become a reality in the fall of 2020, providing a single, common framework for dairy farmers to track animal identity and movements.
