Before all of you go off wondering what Progressive Dairy Publishing has gone and done with one of its editors, I am here to tell you that Walter Cooley is safe and sound somewhere in the Midwest as this ...
When Heinz Held’s great-grandfather, then age 12, arrived in Chile from Germany in the 1850s he paid a minimal sum for a large tract of heavily forested land. Perhaps it was because of the unusual shape, ...
Carl and Debra Chaney of Bowling Green, Kentucky, spent the first 20 years of their lives together focusing on raising children, milking cows and running the family farm, but as their kids began moving ...
It was a clean sweep for the Big 10 at this year’s North American Intercollegiate Dairy Challenge (NAIDC), held April 4-5, in the Madison, Wis. area. Teams from the University of Minnesota, Michigan State ...
He’s farming
at my feet. The operations cease
during school hours;
but the return of the yellow bus
signals a kind of sunrise
and the return to work
for idle augers, discs,
feed grinders,
and tractors ...
It is in all milk producers’ interests to continually drive for greater efficiency in their businesses. While many will look at lowering feed costs to improve financial performance, few actually look at ...
The consumer bill of rights declares, “I have the right for anything I want.”
This doesn’t seem fair to dairymen, but it’s true. Since consumers are buying your milk, you are under the command of the ...
The Westland/Hallmark Meat Co. incident has brought the dairy industry into the consumer spotlight. It demonstrates how quickly a scandal, or in this case, a video, can travel nationally and internationally ...
Profitable reproductive performance of a dairy herd requires a quality heat-detection program that ensures routine and conscientious detection and proper timing of insemination. This is especially true ...
Die-Hard becomes #1 lifetime production bull at ABS ABS Millionaire Sire 29H8538 Regancrest Rbk Die-Hard VG-86 has surpassed another exciting milestone – he is now the number one semen production bull ...
“Inch by inch it’s a cinch; yard by yard it’s hard.”
I grew up with that maxim, and was always impressed with the truth of the old saying, but the other day I was tripped and sent sprawling with the same ...
“It’s so quiet here. The air is clear. There’s no trash along the highway? I can’t smell carbon monoxide fumes in the air. People are friendly … there must be something wrong?”
Once again the plains have ...
Most cowboys go to great lengths to keep from losing their rope. And yet that same cowboy might rope a freight train, a four-wheeler or a polar bear without a second thought. That thought, of course is, ...
In the many years of writing this column, I have written of my work. To the point, my work of planning on livestock farms.
I deliver a lot of training. Specifically, the kind of training that helps our ...
Created on 25 April 2008
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