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Jim Gerrish Poses A Question: “Why Do You Make Hay?”
Do you ever stop and think what your primary objective is for making hay? Providing winter feed is the most common...
House Committee Conducts Animal ID Hearing
The House Agriculture Livestock Subcommittee held a hearing this week to review animal ID systems. Collin Peterson (D-MN), House Ag Committee chairman, said, “After five years of throwing over $100 million at a voluntary system......
Fall calving with tall fescue
Spring may not seem the right time to be thinking about the virtues of fall calving, but if you live in the tall-fescue zone of the U.S., you should be...
Five steps to winter savings
Whether you're out feeding in the cold or just looking out your window at cows eating hay at a cost of $2/cow/day, it should be a wake-up call for all...
Stock water and winter grazing
Providing stock water on winter pastures is one of the ongoing challenges of a year-round grazing program. Many cattlemen feel they don't have the water...
Wildlife-friendly fencing
Farmers and ranchers across the U.S. have a love-hate relationship with wildlife. For many ranch families, one of the perks is seeing wildlife, from big...
The value of education
A lot of farm and ranch kids growing up in the '70s and '80s were told by their parents to get an education and find a better job than farming or ranching....
Manage your pasture's N cycle
My April issue column discussed how effectively pastures can run on legume nitrogen (N) alone. While legumes can put quite a bit of N into the pasture...
From Our Columnists
Advocate or Perish
"While the affluent nations can certainly afford to adopt ultra low-risk positions toward new advances in agricultural science and technology, and pay...
Don't Market Like 2008
Many ranchers' first inclination in marketing their 2009 calves is to base it on their 2008 calf crop experiences. That could be a serious mistake...
No Silver Bullet
I was so impressed with Richard Roth's letter to the editor that I thought it deserved some follow-up...
