Ginny Franks looks around her farm on a sunny day in early May, pointing out the empty clearing where a freestall barn had housed her Brown Swiss herd. “We’ve still got some fences down, and we’re trying to rebuild,” she says. “But Mother Nature has been nice to us while we’re getting things back together.”

Lambertville, New Jersey, has many draws. It’s an hour’s drive north of Philadelphia and an hour’s drive south of New York City. It’s known as the “Antiques Capital of New Jersey.” The nearby Delaware River offers plenty of recreational activities.

This year's All-American Dairy Show, dubbed "Golden Jubilee: Celebrating Generations of Excellence," hosted nearly 3,000 dairy animals and 2,000 exhibitors in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Attendees of the 2013 Agricultural Media Summit held in Buffalo, New York, had the opportunity to tour several agricultural companies in the western New York region on August 3.

When you’ve farmed in Georgia your whole life, you learn a thing or two about managing the heat. Just ask Allen Oglesby of Laranda Farms, Inc. in Lyons, Georgia, who has been raising calves since 1978.

A new smartphone app is now available to help dairy producers be aware of the heat and humidity levels their cows are experiencing to better manage heat stress effects. “What’s going on outside isn’t necessarily what the cows are experiencing in the barn,” says Elena Lindemann, marketing director for Purina Animal Nutrition, which developed the app. “A producer can be standing in front of the cows wearing a T-shirt or light sweatshirt, feeling comfortable, while the cows are probably already heat stressed.”