Every year, many people are injured or killed in accidents involving ATVs. Most accidents occur because the ATV is not being used as intended or is ridden in an unsafe manner.

Accidents and injuries on North American farms and ranches occur in a variety of ways, many times caused by moving equipment or tools, but often they involve horses and riders.

A common theme in American households: Individuals are moving at an always-increasing pace of “go, go, go.” Whether the “go, go, go” is related to work or play, many days you may find yourself moving from work to play to work to play with little time in between.

It is common in the agriculture industry for spouses to work together – creating an interesting and, at times, challenging dynamic.

As we head into the middle of summer, taking stock of pasture and forage status for the rest of the growing season is a good practice to implement, especially when faced with dry weather.

I followed a car with “Trees are the answer” plastered all over it last week in Dallas. I laughed. The answer to what? Shade? Beauty? Can’t argue with that.

Twenty years ago, a colleague and I began an extension publication with this sentence: “Without question, stocking rate is the most important grazing management decision a rancher makes.”

Multiyear drought in much of the western U.S. has made it evident that we will have to make some tough grazing management decisions this year, and likely in the coming years as well.