Articles by Lynn Jaynes

Production sale tips for producers

September 17, 2014
Lynn Jaynes
Travis Meteer, sales manager for the annual Illinois Performance Tested Bull Sale, offers these tips for consignors: Develop a relationship with the buyer Establish contact on sale day with the buyer and continue to keep the lines of communication open.
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The cow’s energy budget

September 11, 2014
Lynn Jaynes
Let’s say you’re in college, your tuition is paid, and you have $1,000 a month to use for living expenses (You wish, right?). What will you do with it? Well, let’s see – you have housing ($400); gas ($120); pizza, instant noodles and an occasional hot dog ($130); books, school supplies and parking fees ($300). That leaves you $50 to spend on miscellaneous necessities (the dollar movie theater, breath freshener for your date), and that equals $1,000. Easy-peasy. It works.
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Welcome Canada

August 30, 2014
Lynn Jaynes
“I have a good idea,” I announce. “You have lots of ideas … but it takes a couple dozen for you to have a good one,” says anyone who knows me well. Yes, it’s true, but I’ve learned to relish the one good one I get.
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Five ways to feed forage in a dairy diet

August 6, 2014
Lynn Jaynes
If you Google “five ways to,” you get a laundry list of how-to articles – five ways to channel your inner millionaire (it’s a joke, right?), five ways to kick the cable TV habit (does 26 hours a day constitute a habit?), five ways to do nothing and become more productive (sign me up), five ways to remove stripped screws (although it doesn’t list a burn pile, which works pretty well).
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Haying equipment: What happens in the baler’s belly?

August 5, 2014
Lynn Jaynes
If a baler were a cow, we could install a cannula into the baler’s belly and watch the internal action. We could install cameras in the throat, the rumen and the nether parts – or the correlating baler parts, such as at the pick-up teeth, the knotter, the cutter, the plunger, and all the way out to the loader and truck.
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Kentucky and South Korea exchange forage expertise

July 29, 2014
Lynn Jaynes
Dr. Jong Duk Kim, a professor and researcher at the privately funded institution Cheonan Yonam College in South Korea, is currently working on one of South Korea’s hot topics – waterways. The total linear distance of waterways in South Korea is about 111,846 miles (180,000 km).
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Pennsylvania forage and grassland tour

July 22, 2014
Lynn Jaynes
Visitors from South Korea and Netherlands recently attended the Pennsylvania Forage and Grassland Council summer forage tour in the heart of Pennsylvania’s Americana landscape, giving the event an international yet down-home feel.
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