Neogen has introduced a mobile-friendly website that puts the power of the latest dairy genomic technology in the palm of your hand.

Deanna BooijinkTerritory Sales ManagerVan Beek Natural ScienceVisalia, California

Lariat Partners, a Denver-based private equity firm, has announced an add-on acquisition to its specialty agriculture business based in Montana. Northern Seed LLC has acquired the triticale business from Syngenta, including its Vernon, Texas, based research center.

Organizers for the Range Beef Cow Symposium expect a strong pre-holiday turnout to this year’s conference, scheduled for Nov. 16-19 in Loveland, Colorado.

In a press release from the White House press secretary, the administration is announcing new efforts to promote climate-smart agricultural practices across the country and is recognizing leaders who are taking action to make our agricultural supply chain more sustainable.

Groups from within and outside the beef industry are responding to a World Health Organization (WHO) study that targets processed meat and red meat as foods linked to cancer.

The board of the National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) today set Jan. 1, 2017, as the date for dairy farmers participating in the industry’s Farmers Assuring Responsible Management (FARM) Animal Care Program to phase out the routine practice of tail docking.

Emilie StrandHuman Resources ConsultantCentral Wisconsin Ag ServicesBlack River Falls, Wisconsin

Utilizing manure as fertilizer is one common approach to capturing the inherent value in manure and reducing the costs of off-farm inputs. But the approach has its limitations; particularly in situations where there is more manure than can be responsibly managed on the available land.

There are many things a farmer can do to help the environment. In the dairy industry, utilizing anaerobic digesters to capture methane gas and produce electricity is a primary way to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. While dairy farmers can actively take measures to reduce the industry’s carbon footprint, those efforts are not always economically viable.