Management

Good health and well-being of farm team members is paramount to a farm’s sustainability. As part of a mini-series focused on Alltech’s global sustainability goals, the company offered a virtual panel discussion on June 25, highlighting health and wellness from a Canadian perspective.

Raising heifers in a conventional system can be an expensive undertaking. A. Fay Benson, grazing educator with the South Central New York Dairy Team, said he thinks there is a better way that might make sense for many large dairy farms.

You have decided to grow hemp. Now what?

In an industry that’s changing as rapidly as a landslide in an earthquake, no matter what figures presented in this writing, it’s only a snapshot of one point in time.

Over the past few years, state-authorized pilot programs for growing industrial hemp as an agricultural crop have opened up across the country.

So far in 2020, there have been many unknowns for the U.S. dairy industry. It’s hard to know what to predict for future milk markets and milk prices. However, one certainty for all dairy farm businesses is the need to know forage inventories and ensuring ample forage stocks are available for the entire herd for next year.