Monthly Archives: August 2013
New pesticide labels will better protect bees and other pollinators
In an effort to protect pollinators, the U.S. Environmental Protection agency has developed new pesticide labels that prohibit use of some neonicotinoid pesticide products where bees are present.
Food Dialogues spectators as feisty a rivalry as OSU-Michigan (maybe)
Food is now prime-time. That's right, food fanatics around the country have turned food into fodder for water cooler, as well as kitchen table, conversations.
Webinar to focus on milk quality
Dr. Michaela Kristula, section chief of field services for the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, will review milk quality strategies for achieving a somatic cell count level of less than 150,000.
Timber sales require education, caution
If there’s one thing that most Farm and Dairy readers have learned in the past couple of years, it’s that when you deal with...
Back in time, back to school
“She is four years and 364 days old and she is spinning away from me like a leaf on the breeze.”
I wrote that nine...
More than meals served at the last supper
The weekly newspaper from my hometown bring news that the small, rural Catholic church near the big southern Illinois dairy farm of my youth...
How many engines is enough at a show?
This topic has come to mind in discussions at our show and perhaps several others. More is usually better, but there are other considerations...
Harvesting stockpiled fescue and improving forages and soil health
Stockpiled fescue is forage allowed to grow and accumulate for future use, often during a forage deficit. It is common practice to harvest and...
Will we go the route of Racine County?
My parents were born and raised in “America’s Dairyland.” As a child, we drove back and forth to Racine County, Wis., at least twice...
Yellow perch are poppin’ all along Lake Erie
With the current interest in Lake Erie yellow perch fishing it seems appropriate to seek answers to the most asked questions. Experienced perch jerker...