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Marcia Itle O’Connor stands today with one foot in her family’s fourth-generation Pennsylvania dairy farm and one foot in the dairy sales industry. As a young professional, she is building on proud traditions while carving out her own future success.
Considerable ado has been made about large beef cold storage totals for the past year. This has resulted in questions, concerns and confusion among cattle producers and others about the implications of large cold storage holdings.
What’s a two-bucket gal? A two-bucket gal is a woman who can do two or more things at once: helping on the farm, no matter what the job; wash the family’s greasy clothes; have lunches ready; run the tractor, grain cart or whatever needs running; manage the house; and be the glue of the family.
Rock River Laboratory Inc. has released a breakdown report of lab results for mycotoxins in the 2016 harvest (Table 1), and it isn’t pretty. The breakdown includes percentages of mycotoxin breakdowns including aflatoxin, fumonisin, ochratoxin, vomitoxin, zearalenone, mold and yeast.
Cattle prices may not be in the tube yet, but they’re circling the rim, and producers have no control over the markets. What we can control are input costs; it’s one way we can maintain profitability and ride out the hard times.
Fencing is often a limiting factor in managing pastures. Producers often point to cost, time and labor, difficult terrain and short-term land leases as disincentives to installing better fencing infrastructure.
A few years ago during a visit on Christmas Day, my dad and I started talking about holidays long gone by. After an hour or so of his familiar yarns, I asked what Christmas was like in the Army.
The September Cattle on Feed report released by the USDA estimated cattle in feedlots with a capacity of 1,000-plus head totaled 10.1 million head, up 1 percent from the previous year. Placements of cattle on feed during August totaled 1.88 million head, up 15 percent from the same period last year.
2016 was quite a year for agricultural law. From the FAA passing UAS regulations, to a major water law decision by the Texas Supreme Court, to Congress passing a GMO labeling bill, a lot has happened in the past 12 months. This article will recap some of the highlights of the past year.
