A larger-than-life Ayrshire cow statue helps to serve as a landmark for Hameau Farm in Belleville, Pennsylvania. Each summer, parents come from cities such as Arlington, Philadelphia and New York to drop off their daughters for a two-week farm camp.

If women, particularly young women, could see more strong female role models in agriculture, it might help them meet their challenges and inspire them to be more successful. That’s the premise behind a unique conference held last April in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

If the pictures by Valerie Miller, Emma Caldwell, Bonnie Mohr and Lisa Rasmussen were each worth 1,000 words, bovines could at last speak. While their vocalizations still remain untranslatable, the subjects of these artists’ paintings possess a personality all their own.

Turn on any news station or open a newspaper in Nevada, and you’ll see the effects of the severe drought, now in its third year in the Silver State. It is leaving farmers and ranchers devastated.

If cows could talk, they would say “thank you” to Dr. Ken Nordlund. From calf barn ventilation to freestall design to transition cow recommendations, Nordlund’s research at the University of Wisconsin – Madison was the basis for many of the gold standards that can be seen today on dairies across the country and around the world.

Three executive branch agencies of the U.S. government recently released a new roadmap for how livestock operations, especially dairies, and other organic waste handlers could voluntarily reduce methane gas emissions and increase energy production through the use of biogas systems such as digesters.

Most people consider searching Craigslist for a bike, couch or even a roommate. Not many can claim that an advertisement on this website is how they began a career as a manager for a 500-cow robot-milking herd.

As is the case so often, a new farming generation, more than likely, is born into the business as opposed to finding their way there with no previous experience. That is the case for Tony Compton and his son, Benjamin.