I could never be a purebred breeder because I couldn’t get all the paperwork done, especially naming the animals. It’s hard enough coming up with titles to my weekly columns, but to have to name 500 or 1,000 cattle every year would drive me even more crazy.

Pete was invited to put on a working stockdog demonstration at the agricultural fair in the nearby town of Perdue, Saskatchewan. He could have brought his own lambs that were “dog-wise,” but his hosts offered to furnish the sheep.

HumaneWatch.org, a project of the nonprofit Center for Consumer Freedom, applaudes the Midwestern Legislative Conference of the Council of State Governments for passing a resolution calling on 11 state attorneys general to investigate the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), an organization that, despite its name, does not run a single pet shelter yet raises nearly $100 million a year off of ads full of dogs and cats.

For the past several years, we’ve kept a close eye in this newsletter on the significant gap between California’s Class 4b price (which applies to milk sold to California’s cheese manufacturers) and the Federal Order Class III price (the benchmark price used around the country for milk sold to cheese manufacturers). We’ve dubbed it the “California discount” and kept a running tally on the impact it has had on California’s producers.

Wyoming hay is an easy sell to horse customers, dairy and beef producers alike. The high plains and mountain valleys of Wyoming are close to perfect for high-quality alfalfa and alfalfa-mixed grass production.

The dairy checkoff is debunking some consumer myths and setting the record straight about the work dairy farmers do and the milk they produce.

The Red Angus Association of America (RAAA) has reached a mutual agreement with Dr. Twig Marston to not renew the two-year CEO contract, which expires Jan. 15, 2016.