Social interactions are on the list of ways to beat chronic stress. Your social network helps provide space, perspective and emotional support. Humans need humans, just as cows need cows. Togetherall is a global network of peers, backed by licensed clinicians, designed to provide a nationwide safety net of confidential and on-demand support to farmers, ranchers and their families.

QuickBooks Desktop launched in 1998 as financial accounting software comparable to Quicken but with more features. Accountants and bankers became early adopters, liking the program’s double-entry system that allows users to create detailed financial reports. They began recommending QuickBooks to clients, including agricultural producers.

I read Hatchet by Gary Paulsen several years ago. It is a story about Brian, a 14-year-old boy whose plane crashes into the wilderness. It took both physical and mental fortitude for Brian to survive. He could be called a mental warrior.

La leucose bovine est une maladie persistante et incurable qui affecte la santé, la productivité et la rentabilité des fermes laitières. 

“Ag has changed yesterday, it’s changing today, and it will surely change tomorrow,” U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins said in a speech to attendees at the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association (TSCRA) Convention on April 12. “What has stayed the same for far too long are the broken systems in Washington, D.C. – including systems at the USDA that haven’t been updated in decades.”