Watch your herd’s fuel (feed) economy
Milk prices are lower than they were a year ago, so marginal income over feed costs are going to be lower this year compared to last year. We really need to be managing input costs and feed efficiency on dairy farms.
Summer shows and the ‘stuff’ we accumulate
A four-day show rarely gets four good days in a row, but the last of July/ first of August weekend brought just such good weather to us at Portersville, Pennsylvania.
Trophy Life
I am not a trophy mom. I mean I think I'm a catch, but I'm not "into" trophies.
Nothing beats ‘summer school’
As the simplicity of summertime bows to bus schedules, long days and short nights, it still makes me wistful after all these years.
Monarch butterfly numbers are coming back
This summer I saw my first monarch on Aug. 1. Since then, however, I've seen more every day.
Everyone deserves a little mercy
Sludge from a mine cleanup spill that turned a Colorado River orange a couple of weeks ago made the EPA a target of criticism...
Speculators and the wheat market of 1897-98
Joe Leiter's story is another example of how speculators control the prices farmers receive for their products, a practice that continues today -- just ask Marlin Clark.
Head to Lake Erie, the perch are biting!
Perch fishing is not as easy as it sounds.
Ask FSA Andy about growing miscanthus
There is still government assistance to help farmers grow miscanthus.
Let there be light in continuing battle over pork checkoffs
Little wonder, then, why Big Meat hates the Humane Society; it's shining lights into corners that most in U.S. agriculture, often even USDA, want kept dark.
