Every dairy farm, no matter the size, has to manage its production site waste. Production site waste, for the purpose of this article, is any material or its byproduct that requires routine management or handling and can be land-applied.

Last issue, I wrote an article about the flag and included information from a website that told how we should honor the flag. I have thought of it often and decided that I didn’t say enough about the flag.

Whether you are milking 100 cows or 1,000, the cost of energy inputs into a dairy farm – fuel and electricity – has a big impact on the bottom line. According to the USDA, energy costs consistently ranks second only to feed costs.

If there’s one thing found on a farm regardless of all else, it’s barn cats. They roam everywhere, living detached lives in dusty rafters and bedded stalls. The barn cat is a strong animal because he has to be.

• Newly appointed to the board of directors of Select Sires Inc. are Board Chairman Myron Czech of Little Falls, Minnesota; First Vice Chairman Dan Andreas of Sugarcreek, Ohio; and Second Vice Chairwoman Dorothy Harms of Reedsburg, Wisconsin.

I have discovered three agricultural regions in lower Egypt. They are the alluvial floodplains of the Nile River, the larger delta and then the desert lands beyond the delta. The Nile is quite impressive: It’s wide and deep with much ship traffic. The river border areas are densely populated with people, high-rise apartments and office buildings.