Students and faculty at Iowa State University are thrilled about the recent addition to their stomping grounds.
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Students and faculty at Iowa State University are thrilled about the recent addition to their stomping grounds.
Progressive Dairyman has been awarded the James Flanagan Award by peer judges of the Livestock Publications Council (LPC).
As a result of our just-completed herd retirement program and recently increased activity under our export assistance program, we have received inquiries from a few producer-members asking about the overall operation of the CWT program. Rather than respond to these inquiries individually, I felt all CWT members would be interested in the nature of the questions and our responses.
Despite a recent slump in the economy, agricultural students can plan on a “bright future” in the industry, says Eric Spell, president of AgCareers.com. The recruitment website, which started as a newsprint publication 10 years ago, has become the leading online career portal in the agricultural industry. Spell says more than 1,000 employers use the site throughout a year.
In the June 17 issue of Progressive Dairyman this year, our staff published a story about how the dairy industry, and agricultural college students in particular, has been utilizing Facebook.com. As we have come to discover, it’s not just the students who are taking advantage of the social networking site.
Years ago, Don Carlos Vargas ran his dairy like most everyone else in Costa Rica.