4-H can prepare our future food and agriculture employees
Food and agriculture businesses are labor-intensive enterprises. Even with modern technology and automation, we still need humans helping us grow, transport, market and manufacture the food, fiber and...
View ArticleHow big of a business is U.S. pork production?
Hallmark is really missing out by not offering cards for Pork Month. I mean, who doesn’t want to share their love of pork by sending someone a card to show them just how much you care — about them and,...
View ArticleKeep livestock market auctions competitive
Today, owners of a livestock auction market can’t own or have interest in meatpacking facilities or a meatpacking business — even small, country butchering facilities. However, meatpackers can buy and...
View ArticleNo ‘cow tax’ urged by legislators
The Livestock Regulatory Protection Act aims to prevent the Environmental Protection Agency from issuing Clean Air Act Title V permits for emissions like carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxide, water vapor or...
View ArticleEducational program set for sheep, goat producers
The 4S Goat Expo and the Nebraska Sheep and Goat Producers annual meeting seminar has combined for a small-ruminant educational program that will be held Sept. 24-25 at the Lincoln County fairgrounds...
View ArticleKansas grain commodity commissions filing deadline is Nov. 30
Grain growers in central Kansas who plan to campaign for a seat on one of the state’s five grain commodity commissions — corn, grain sorghum, soybeans, wheat or sunflowers — should be gathering...
View ArticleBattling BRD: Cattle bred for disease resistance
Bovine Respiratory Disease (BRD) has been one of the greatest disease challenges in the cattle industry for many years, but only acquired this name in the past few decades. It was earlier just called...
View ArticleBeef promotion efforts target families this fall
Is there anything more symbolic of fall than a pot of chili simmering on the stove? How about a beef roast in the slow cooker, waiting for your family to return from those sports practices and school...
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Livestock auctioneers do more than sell cattle
Listening to a good auctioneer can get your blood flowing faster. Whenever our local high school is fortunate enough to qualify a soil judging team for the national contest in Oklahoma, we include an...
View ArticleHow to win at life
It was 1987 on the University of Illinois campus. Students packed the sidewalks, headed to class and beyond. Amid the Frisbees and college kids and backpacks on the Quad, there was also a steer.A...
View ArticleData and sustainability in pork industry
I live near Columbus, Neb., and we own a hog finishing operation, raise corn and soybeans, and feed some cattle. September was a busy month of pork meetings, with sustainability as a primary subject.We...
View ArticleThe cost-price squeeze for farmers
Profitability measures the amount a business earns from its use of labor, management and capital. Oversimplified, profit is what is left over from sales after all production expenses have been paid.In...
View ArticlePatch burning a potential cost saver for supplemental feed
Ongoing research at Oklahoma State University shows that the process of patch burning has the potential to save cattle producers $20 per cow per year in supplemental feed costs.Most cattle producers...
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Living the dream
Joshua Stamper can cite the date and location when he felt in his heart that one day, he was going to own a farm in northern Minnesota with his wife, Alison.“July 3, 2006, is the exact day I fell in...
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Texas pecan production below average, demand remains strong
Texas pecan orchards were expected to produce a mixed bag of results amid good prices and strong demand, according to a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service expert.Larry Stein, AgriLife Extension...
View ArticlePerspectives and quotes: Food for thought
Concerns about the long-term challenges of food inflation have become a front and center topic of discussion. It is amazing how quickly our food system is changing and how it is impacted by external...
View ArticleMetaphylaxis can help manage high-risk cattle
Concerning animal antibiotic usage, veterinarians from Boehringer Ingelheim say using targeted metaphylaxis treatments to medicate an entire group of purchased livestock upon arrival to the farm or...
View ArticleChoose age-appropriate tasks for farm youth
Every year we hear the statistics. Children are often at risk of accidents on the farm, and these are statistics we never want to see.Choosing the right farm tasks for youth of every age is crucial to...
View ArticleGive up meat? Not so fast, say consumers
Many consumers may tell pollsters they’re concerned about climate change, but it doesn’t necessarily equate to their own reductions in meat consumption or other changes in diet, an Oregon State...
View ArticleUptick in bird flu likely, state warns
With the fall migration underway across the nation, Washington state is preparing for an uptick in highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) cases. Veterinarians predict newly infected wild birds will...
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