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Annual forages can supplement perennial forage production
Livestock producers have many annual forage options to supplement perennial forage production throughout the year to best serve their nutrient needs.
Raising children: Yours, mine and ours
The same people that I once fervently hoped would mind their own business are the people I hope most will help mind mine today.
Efforts to control the Mississippi result in flooded farmland, extensive damage
URBANA, Ill. — When the water in the Mississippi River rose to 58 feet with a forecast of 60 feet or higher in May 2011, the emergency plan to naturally or intentionally breach the levees, established over 80 years prior, was put in motion. The flood of 1937 did top the frontline levee and water
Graziers, set the stage now for rest of the grazing season
We are at a stage now where we can affect grazing for the season. Right now, our fields are finishing up their “reproductive” stage of growth as our grasses are setting seed heads and our legumes are blooming. After they set seed, perennial plants transition from the reproductive stage to the vegetative stage. Up to
Co-firing biomass with coal can help Pennsylvania reach energy goal
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Blending biomass into the coal stream that feeds electricity-generation plants offers the opportunity to reduce harmful emissions and create a market for renewable fuel, according to a biomass-energy expert in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences. And Pennsylvania power-plant operators have a big incentive for co-firing coal with biomass they buy
Memories and traditions are what make Christmas, not the tree itself
The Feisley Tree Farm includes 300 acres of trees.
Did you blink? It is indeed all gone
Somebody — was it you? — really, really blinked from the time you were warned that if you did it would all be gone! — because since I issued that warning just two weeks ago it is indeed totally all gone! And now that daylight saving time has also gone, the amount of light diffused
When push comes to shove
The danger of writing about your life, yourself and your family is that you are always in grave danger of becoming one of “those moms.” You know the ones. Your children are always beautiful, brilliant, gifted. Maybe Garrison Keillor can get away with that when writing about Lake Woebegone, but here in the real world
Review resources available for livestock
As the lazy, hazy days of summer have been replaced by Jack Frost and thoughts of sugar plums dancing in our heads, our farm chores are also changing. Pasture growth has slowed down and may be stopped for all practical purposes, however our livestock still have daily needs to be met. Our efforts in managing
The big picture: Beyond beef
This Stark County, Ohio, farm family brings new energy to old traditions.
