Monthly Archives: November 2002
Calving assistance: Are you doing more harm than good?
The simple act of helping a cow deliver her calf isn't as innocent as it may seem. Find out why.
Beef study tour to Kentucky, Tenn., set
Sign up now for the December tour, which features tours of beef and horse farms and a tour of Nashville.
Barn restoration effort gets grant
Historic Harmony received a grant to support repairs and electrical service for its historic 1805 barn on Mercer Road.
Collectors get heated up with toasters
Some people collect memorabilia, some collect stamps, others collect souvenirs. Dick Horn collects toasters.
Animal sciences course earns national distinction from humane society
The award was presented Monday on campus by representatives of the society to Zartman, Glen Schmidt, J. Fred Stephens and Stephen Boyles.
NCBA listening to grassroots input
Beef producers airing their views at these meetings, being held across the country, are talking about meat packer concentration, oversupply, drought impacts, and are raising questions about trade, McDonald's and, of course, the mandatory $1-per-head beef checkoff.
MPC frustration growing among nation’s dairymen
Not since bST have three little letters so inflamed the dairy industry as MPC. With the current depressed market for milk, producers are wondering if MPC is to blame.
