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Creekstone Farms is exporter of year
Arkansas City, Kan., meatpacker is chosen as the 2020 Governor’s Exporter of the Year. Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly has recognized Creekstone Farms Premium Beef LLC as the winner of the 2020 Governor’s...
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Scaled-down bull sales to proceed in person
The annual Red Bluff and Klamath Falls events are considered essential business activities. Amanda Bradshaw’s first Red Bluff Bull and Gelding Sale as manager will be considerably different from all...
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Research shows late-summer burn defeats sericea
Continuing studies will examine whether off-season burns can defeat Old-World bluestems. The unique ecosystem of the Kansas prairies has relied for centuries on fire and large, grazing ruminant...
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MPCA offers online feedlot registration
Dec. 31, 2021, is the next deadline for updating registrations. Livestock feedlot owners and operators can now register their feedlots and manure storage areas online with the Minnesota Pollution...
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Diversification helps with farm transition
Couple makes way for the next generation on the family farm. Just a quarter of a mile separates Audrey Konechne from her children and grandchildren.“Some grandparents talk about only getting to see...
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Counting to 30 isn’t as easy as it seems
Life is Simple: I wasted half the morning looking for a cow that wasn’t missing. This morning, I came to the realization that I just might have outlived my usefulness.We still have a little pasture...
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Kansas Leopold award goes to Hoy family
Flying W Ranch of Cedar Point is 2020 Kansas Leopold Conservation Award winner. Josh and Gwen Hoy’s Flying W Ranch of Cedar Point has been selected as the recipient of the 2020 Kansas Leopold...
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Now is the time for positive ag message
From carbon sequestration to fuel efficiency, it’s time to talk about ag success. It’s been a long time coming, but there are signs that the day is rapidly approaching when agriculture advocates can...
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Vilsack pick slammed on Twitter
Commodity groups generally happy with Biden's pick, but Twitter lit up with opposition to "industrial food lobbyist" returning to lead agency. Former Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has been...
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Minnesota Milk names Spadgenske Dairy as Producer of the Year
Thinking outside the box has helped the family farm grow from a startup dairy in 1994 to its current 350-cow business. From its start in 1994 through the pandemic challenges of 2020, tenacity and...
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Chinese demand feeds feed price increases
CoBank report predicts 12% increase in feed costs for livestock producers in 2021. With corn futures above $4 per bushel and soybean meal futures around $350 per ton, cattle feeders, hog producers and...
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Cover crops offer potential grazing benefit for cattle operations
There are many factors to consider if using cover crops as a grazing resource. Many Oklahoma ranchers have been reaping the benefits of feed cost and overall animal wellbeing by having cover crops...
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Grow more feed with annual forages
Cropping Systems: Annual forages can be grown as a cover crop and used as a feed source for livestock. With the drought this past growing season, some cattle producers may feel like their forage...
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Stronger, lingering La Niña stirs drought worries
Much of Kansas is in drought, with the northwest part of the state in extreme drought. La Niña is strengthening and is expected to continue through the winter and into spring. The worsening U.S....
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BLM’s Great Basin fuels reduction plan encourages grazing
Plan seeks to conserve, restore sagebrush communities imperiled by Western wildfires. Ranchers’ groups are sidling up to a U.S. Bureau of Land Management plan that seeks to conserve and restore...
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Support high for food worker prioritization for COVID vaccine
IDFA survey finds 80% of adults believe food industry workers should be prioritized in receiving coronavirus vaccine. More than four in five adults believe food workers—manufacturing, retail and farm...
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Farm Progress America, December 17, 2020
Max Armstrong shares a new income source for dairy farms – renewable natural gas Max Armstrong looks at a new use for methane from the farm, an issue Max has covered for 20 years. But the market is...
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10-plus common dairy farm inspection debits
A Minnesota dairy farm inspector shares what he sees on routine visits. When you produce a fresh product daily, it’s crucial that sanitation is the top priority.Dairy farmers know this and work to...
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Thin cows need to be watched carefully
Ranchers who notice thin cows should make sure feed access is adequate. Navigating the holiday season, with all of its eating and drinking events, has most people watching their rate of weight gain...
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7 ag stories you might have missed this week - Dec. 18, 2020
Phase one deal reaches one-year milestone, monarch butterfly not added to endangered species list and Indian farmers continue to protest. Missed some agricultural news this week? Here's seven stories...
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