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Motivating your team to reach new heights

November 13, 2015

Kari O’Neill

Whether you lead a family, a business or an organization, you work in a team situation most of the time. You deal with people constantly and depend on others to keep things going in a positive direction.

Quotes & Concepts: "Good variety decisions don't guarantee success, but bad ones can guarantee failure"

November 12, 2015

Plant breeding is a relatively young science, but it has resulted in amazing increases in productivity.

Baleage to milk jug

October 29, 2015

Tamara Scully

A return to grass-based dairying is being led both by consumer and farmer interests, with premiums being offered for milk from grass-based or 100-percent grass-fed herds. With more farmers focusing on decreasing feed costs, making milk from forages is becoming a sought-after skill.

$Steve Charter looks through refractometer$

Tools of the soil trade

October 2, 2015

Laura Nelson

Monitoring the amount of bare ground, plant diversity, worms in times of moisture and the smell and feel of the soil will give quick indicators of a ranch’s below-ground health. But Kate Vogel, an agronomist with North 40 Ag consulting in Ballentine, Montana, says digging a little deeper will provide more meaningful measurements of soil health.

In soil nutrient management, simple isn’t necessarily better

September 27, 2015

Alan Blaylock

I’m sitting here looking at my “smartphone.” I’ve heard it said there is more technology and computing power in that phone than went to the moon on Apollo 13. But some days it doesn’t make me feel so smart.

Neal Fehringer inspects a swathed and raked windrow

Forage fundamentals checklist

September 27, 2015

Jim Gransbery

A man of sincere beliefs, Neal Fehringer is not a fundamentalist. However, when it comes to producing forage crops, it is the fundamentals that have built and sustained his professional agronomy business in south-central Montana.

Are we prisoners of the technology moment?

September 27, 2015

Mark Boggess

At some point, everyone wonders about the current state of technology in his life, and some conclude that mankind has peaked and will go no further. Charles H. Duell, who was the commissioner of the U.S. Patent Office in 1899, is famously credited with the following quote: “Everything that can be invented has been invented,” which, it turns out, he did not actually say – but the point is well taken.

farmers and ranchers gather to learn about soil

Can the soil save us?

September 27, 2015

Laura Nelson

The money may already be in the bank, just waiting to be cashed out. “Often, we’re sitting on a great big bank account we have no idea is there,” Nicole Masters says.

The triple-bottom-line approach

September 25, 2015

Kelli Boylen

Managing for the “triple bottom line” can lead to success on your operation, according to Joshua Dukart, a holistic management-certified educator operating out of Bismarck, North Dakota.