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June Dairy Month not time to celebrate
URBANA, Ill. — June Dairy Month marks the midpoint of 2009, a year that clearly will not be “kind” to dairy producers, said a University of Illinois Extension dairy specialist. “Dairy managers are recording huge financial losses,” said Mike Hutjens. “Milk prices dropped nearly 40 percent starting last January, reaching less than $12 per hundred
Financial management practices and strategy options for farm operators
By WILLIAM EDWARDS AMES, Iowa — After several years of high grain prices and generous margins, crop producers are facing a 2009 that looks less than rosy. Higher inputs costs and selling prices well below the peaks of 2008 will result in fewer dollars left over to pay landlords and put into savings. Livestock producers
Experts: Spend gas well money wisely
ROCK SPRINGS, Pa. — “Are there too many zeroes behind that number?” It’s a question Penn State Cooperative Extension educator Robin Kuleck stopped asking — wondering if that $200,000 natural gas lease she was reviewing was really supposed to read $20,000, or maybe just $2,000 — after she learned the potential income behind natural gas
My summer as a kitchen migrant
Sometime in the early summer of 1965 I migrated from my mother’s hot kitchen and the family’s enormous garden to our farm’s sweltering hayfields and crowded milking parlor.
Agbiz’s sweet deal on EPA air regs
For generations, U.S. meat and egg producers joked about the earthy aromas emanating from their farms.
Milk or milk replacer: Do the math
Is it ‘cheaper’ to feed milk rather than milk replacer? Not necessarily.
Pay attention: This CAT can bite
The new CAT in the barn is one that can turn around and bite you, if it doesn’t get your attention soon.
My name is Kymberly and I’m an auction addict
Columnist Kymberly Foster Seabolt thinks auctions need an “addictive substance warning.”
Ohio agriculture director Robert Boggs: At the grassroots, telling it like it is
SALEM, Ohio – Shortly after Robert Boggs of Ashtabula County took over as director of the Ohio Department of Agriculture earlier this year, he got an order from the governor.
FarMore Farms: Farming is far more than milking cows
The farm’s cows will cross the auction block next week, but farm owners say there’s still more life in their Geauga County farm.
