A year ago this summer, supporters of a 75-year-old Indiana farmer received disappointing news. The Supreme Court ruled against Vernon Bowman and his fight against Monsanto. Many are already familiar with the details after the story garnered national attention several years ago. Bowman purchased Monsanto soybean seed every year for his 300-acre crop farm.

Recently, I wrote an article where I cited Hernán Cortés’ conquest and success when he and 600 men conquered an Aztec city. His strategy was simple: “Burn the boats,” not giving himself or his army a path for retreat. It was a matter of victory or death. They would conquer and return home in their enemies’ boats or they would be carrion for the buzzards.

Today’s antifreeze solutions are a sophisticated blend of chemicals specifically designed to provide not only freeze protection and enhanced cooling but protection from other dangers inherent in modern, complex cooling systems such as corrosion, cavitation erosion, etc.

• The Wisconsin Holstein Association awarded 18 scholarships to young members studying agriculture or a related field at a two-year or four-year university. The outstanding members will be recognized at the 2015 Wisconsin Junior Holstein Convention.

I am working with a 71-year-old landowner. He raises horses and beef cattle on a small farm with perennial grass hay and grazing land. The farm equipment is for hay harvested as round bales. He has one small manure spreader on the back of a John Deere 2020 tractor.

A marketing campaign introducing retail-based “Seriously Sustainable Stations” for consumer education, interwoven with social media, contests and merchandise, received the finalist award in the USJersey Sustainability Marketing Contest.

Check out images from Pagel’s Ponderosa, a 5,000-cow dairy near Casco, Wisconsin.

The Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory (TVMDL), along with the Texas Animal Health Commission (TAHC), recently completed two National Animal Health Laboratory Network (NAHLN) foreign animal disease scenario tabletop exercises. The agencies discussed how to properly implement biosafety measures and testing procedures in the event of a suspect foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) outbreak.

The Midwest has the potential to capture its share of growing domestic and global dairy demand opportunities, according to a recent economic study funded by Midwest Dairy Association through the dairy checkoff.