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Range and pasture monitoring historically involved a large paper map, clipboards, a camera, a GPS, a calculator, plant and weed identification booklets and a notebook. And heaven help you if you lost your pencil while walking through the grass.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released an evaluation of the carcinogenic potential of glyphosate (trade name: Roundup), declaring no links to human cancer were found.
At the 2016 National Hay Association annual convention, Bill Plourd, President of El Toro Export in El Centro, California and a member of the U.S. Forage Export Council (USFEC), posed the question, “Is it time for alfalfa futures contracts in the marketplace?”
Cultural missteps: The Got Milk? slogan is translated in Spanish as “Are you lactating?” The Chinese translation of KFC’s finger-lickin’ good slogan was translated initially as “Eat your fingers off.” It can be tricky working with other languages and cultures.
Nobody likes the end of a close basketball game because it’s nothing but a foul-fest; coaches routinely instruct players to foul the worst free-throw shooter on the opposite team. It’s so painful to watch.
Family tradition states John Walker (of Scottish-Irish descent) and his five brothers served in the American Revolution Continental Army. John Walker served as a private in Captain John Morrow’s company of Pennsylvania Riflemen, 2nd Battalion, signing up in May of 1776.
AT-A-GLANCE: In an effort to create additional silage tonnage and supplement nitrogen, a Montana producer sows soybeans into silage corn.
Raising soybeans in corn silage – it’s a little unconventional, but who can argue with success?
Matt Bomgardner has 10 years’ experience in a grazing dairy system at Blue Mt. View Farm, in Annville, Pennsylvania, which has been a grazing dairy for 15 years.
