If dairy farmers want to complain about the current low milk prices, they’d better be willing to offer a solution along with the complaints, or the situation will never change.

The Ohio Farmers Union treasurer may face jail time for embezzling from the organization.

Attention shutterbugs! Have you ever wanted to shoot a cover photo?
Well, Farm and Dairy is offering you that chance.
We are conducting a photo contest and the winning photo will appear on the cover of the 2010 Agri-Book.
Photos must have a farm/agricultural connection and can encompass anything in the rural community from rolling […]

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind — Farmers should see some relief on input costs next year, but profit margins are still likely to be squeezed.
Bruce Erickson, a Purdue University agricultural economist, said growers would likely see the most savings on fertilizer costs in the 2010 planting season.
“Some farmers were spending as much as $200 per […]

LOUDONVILLE, Ohio — The little black-and-white Holstein calves looked so cute to third-grader Vassiliya Draganova, that she decided to name one.
“Bella,” she called it, which means “beautiful” in Italian.
“They’re wee little and they like to lick your thumb,” she told some of her classmates — all third graders in Regina Herrick’s class from […]

The United Egg Producers vow to keep fighting so U.S. egg producers can stay in business.

The notion of milking cows with a robot, let alone one named “Lely Astronaut 3,” might remind some milk producers of science fiction shows like Star Wars or Star Trek. There is no known robotic milker currently installed in Ohio, but these sleek, high-tech machines are tugging on the barn doors of some of the state’s most progressive dairies, and the seemingly fictional concept is proving to be a science rooted in efficiency and increased productivity.

LANSING, Michigan — Michigan is one step away from approving a new bill to regulate animal care in agreement with standards outlined by one of the nation’s most active animal welfare organizations — The Humane Society of the United States.

HARRISBURG, Pa. — A Duroc gilt and Hampshire boar topped a field of 364 animals in the open breeding swine show at the Keystone International Livestock Exposition Oct. 2.
Along with the receiving the champion banners, the two winners each received $250 from EMM Sales & Service, Brownstown, Pa.
The winning Duroc gilt, exhibited by […]

WASHINGTON — Senate and House negotiators agreed Sept. 30 to provide $350 million for U.S. dairy farmers.
Under the language that Congress still must approve, $290 million would be provided in direct support to dairy farmers using guidelines to be determined by U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack under an expedited process.