Yearly Archives: 2002
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.
Dairy Excel: Will dairy industry follow trends of poultry and pork livestock sectors?
Author Jim Skeeles writes that he sees the dairy trend following that of poultry and pork - more and more milk being produced by larger herds, with the share of milk produced by small herds dwindling.
Old horse tales continue swishing
Columnist Judith Sutherland remembers some of her favorite stories from her childhood, which revolve around the horses in her family tree.
Hazard A Guess: Week of Oct. 31, 2001
Each week Farm and Dairy challenges readers to identify a small tool or gadget.
Read it Again: Week of Oct. 31, 2001
Each week Farm and Dairy takes a look at what was making news in years gone by.
Don your grown-up get-ups for Halloween and every day in between
Columnist Kym Seabolt has just the Halloween costume suggestion for you adults: How about the "Sensitive Male" get-up, or the "Informed Voter" disguise?
Make me a garden gnome and I’ll be your Christmas goose
Farm and Family Living columnist Laurie Marlatt Steeb laments about being exposed to Christmas marketing before Halloween is even over.
Collectors get chill at rare fan find
With the hot weather of this summer now just a memory, antique columnist Roy Booth starts thinking about fans.
Managing your fall, winter forage
With this being a unique and challenging year for grazing management, producers need to seriously look at their quantity and quality of stored feed.
