The USDA announced Dec. 18 that agricultural producers can now enroll in the Farm Service Agency’s (FSA) Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC) and Price Loss Coverage (PLC) programs for the 2024 crop year.

Farming and sports both require some grit, brains and luck. Being physically tough is important, but being mentally tough makes a bigger difference. In farming and sports, if you give me a choice between talent and heart, I’ll take heart every time.

Opening a new bag of silage often feels like a shot in the dark. We aren’t quite sure what to expect. In some years, we see little changes from previous silage crops, while in others we see larger leaps.

Check out the December 2023 new product lineup.

When did Christmas start feeling different for you? I remember the exact moment it dawned on me that Christmas had changed. I was 16 and had long stopped believing in Santa, and yet, up until that season, the Christmas season still possessed that unworldly magic of the movies.

Rolling into a new calendar year brings cooler temperatures and cooler prices for the hay market. With warmer temperatures across the north that have prolonged the grazing season and delayed the warmup of hay sales.

Tall fescue-clover pastures have a long history of improving livestock performance in the U.S. transition zone as well as mitigating the effects of fescue toxicosis.

What does a bank and a commercial laboratory have in common with your cattle operation? The answer is family values. Dr. Ray Ward founded Ward Laboratories Inc. on honesty, integrity and the vision to rebuild and support rural communities.