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It warms my coaching heart to sit in a workshop with a group of smart women in agriculture who truly want better communication on our farms.

Whether you are the landowner or the renter, sound legal advice is an “insurance policy” for both sides of a leasing arrangement, says Ed Cox, an attorney with the Iowa law firm of Craver, Grothe & Cox, LLP.

It’s been more than 30 years since Stephen Covey wrote and published his best-selling book 7 Habits of Highly Effective People; however, the information he covered continues to be relevant.

Last spring, The Yield Lab Institute announced the Manure Innovation Challenge, a startup competition for innovative management technologies and products that relate to manure, wastewater, waste nutrients or emissions.

There were 63 applicants worldwide, and eight of them were chosen to participate in the challenge, where they were provided mentorship, commercial strategy guidance and network access over several months.

Six percent of Holstein bull calves in the U.S. never make it to the feedlot. That’s because their path is diverted to become veal.

Not all Holstein bull calves become steers. A tiny sliver (6%) contribute to a specialty meat sector that so quietly complements the dairy industry, some of us forget it’s there.