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Posted on October 10, 2023
For beef producers, successfully engaging with your customer base is a real red meat issue. Danette Amstein is co-founder of Midan Marketing, a strategic marketing, research and creative agency that focuses solely on being champions for the value of meat. She has researched the beef consumer populat...
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Sally Colby 
Posted on September 12, 2023
There are T-shirts and mugs joking about how relationships, often between spouses, suffer during cattle handling. While handling cattle can be stressful for both humans and animals, several critical factors can make the process less stressful for all. In a live online event, two experts discussed th...
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Enrico Villamaino 
Posted on September 12, 2023
The goal of beef cow/calf production is to wean one heavy, healthy calf with the greatest genetic potential to perform per cow, every year, according to Jesse Fulton. The director of Beef Quality Assurance for the University of Nebraska’s Extension program, Fulton spelled out the best way to go abou...
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Enrico Villamaino 
Posted on August 15, 2023
Adaptability traits are becoming more of a focal point in the cattle industry, according to Dr. Bob Weaber, a professor specializing in beef breeding and genetics at Kansas State University. Weaber, who also works as an Extension specialist at KSU, said that identifying desirable adaptability traits...
Country Folks
by Sally Colby 
April 8, 2026
Manure safety might seem like a boring, overdone topic, but that isn’t the case when farmers continue to die in manure-related accidents. In many case...
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by Edith Tucker 
April 8, 2026
Steam billowed from the open windows of the cupola of maple sugarmaker Cory Krieg’s sugarhouse on March 27, within sight of his home on Christian Hill...
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by Deborah Jeanne Sergeant 
April 8, 2026
Are white mold and other soilborne diseases affecting your soybeans? Camilo Parada-Rojas, Ph.D., field crop pathologist with Cornell University, prese...
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Courtney Llewellyn 
April 8, 2026
At a meeting of the Northeast Cover Crops Council, John Tooker, a Penn State entomologist, showed a photograph of a hay mower in southern Pennsylvania...
