Weather is the most prominent factor influencing moulds and mycotoxins in crops, and the 2019 growing season was variable and challenging across Canada.

Dr. Phil Meadows describes stray voltage as a black box. As a practicing veterinarian at Mitchell Veterinary Services in Mitchell, Ontario, he said, “When there are problems on dairy farms, there are a lot of boxes I can check off and questions to ask about this or that."

All hay stored on U.S. farms as of Dec. 1, 2019, totaled nearly 84.5 million tons, up 7% from a year earlier, according to the USDA’s Crop Production report, released Jan. 10.

Stronger U.S. sales of tractors and self-propelled combines in December helped push 2019 sales numbers slightly ahead of year-earlier totals, according to the latest data from the Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM).

The USDA provided updated hay production and inventory estimates as the calendar changed to a new year and decade.

Where do you go to buy new equipment? The dealership? Craigslist? The classifieds?

Starting and growing a business is part of the American dream. Farm and ranch business expansion is often motivated by the need to increase profitability and improve production efficiency. Businesses experience growing pains just as teenagers do. Growth tends to magnify the weaknesses in a business. Setting things in order when your business is small is much wiser than waiting until you have a big business and a mess to clean up. Here are four things you can do to improve the profitability of your business as it grows.