Managing for the “triple bottom line” can lead to success on your operation, according to Joshua Dukart, a holistic management-certified educator operating out of Bismarck, North Dakota.

The Meridian Speedway was in a neighboring town where I grew up. The Saturday night car races were the diversion of choice for a number of years. One particular racer did well when his race car ran well, but he seemed plagued with more than his fair share of mechanical issues.

A grandson and I were at a luncheon the other day. He found the dessert table before I did, and I had to threaten to confiscate his goodies to get him to show me where it was. The fellow who had been sitting across from me joined me at the dessert table.

Manual, battery-operated, air-powered or AC electric grease gun – what’s your preference? On a recent online ag forum, members chimed in with their experiences and advice on battery-operated grease guns.

Not long after I got out of college, I worked on an outfit whose owner loved good horses. More than the horses, though, he loved to trade horses. To that end, there was never a shortage of colts, knotheads and green horses to ride. I started a couple of geldings, but I really took a shine to a particular little sorrel mare.

Agriculture Deputy Secretary Krysta Harden announced on Tuesday that $2.5 million in grants is now available for projects to educate new and underserved farmers about more than 20 USDA Farm Service Agency programs that can provide financial, disaster or technical assistance to the agricultural community.

One in 8 million. That’s the probability of triplet calves being born at all – let alone a set of three healthy, happy heifer calves to a cow with no known history of multiple births.

Profound changes in the dairy industry in recent decades have benefited the health and welfare of dairy cows, as well as consumers. A team of dairy science experts provides valuable insights into these changes, as well as the science behind them, and also identifies knowledge gaps and further research needs.

The Net Merit (NM$) Index is a dairy selection index that incorporates many different traits that have economic value associated with them. After the most recent revision of the index, it was calculated that an increase in genetic progress is worth $8 million per year to the dairy industry on a national basis, when using NM$ as the selection index.