Children who show dairy heifers often lead to a life change for a family, and that’s how the Doody family started their own dairy farm. Although Amy Augur-Doody grew up on a dairy farm in Connecticut, her husband Patrick Doody did not have a farm background. They kept some milk cows and show heifers...

The beef industry has worked hard to introduce changes that would make beef production more profitable. Shane Bedwell, COO and director of breed improvement at the American Hereford Association (AHA), discussed the role of genetics in rapid breed improvement and how changes have benefited both pureb...

Owning large tracts of forested land is an asset, but it can also be a tax liability. Scott Jones, CEO of the Forest Landowners Association (FLA), said the organization’s priorities are set on core tenets that will ensure success for private forest landowners, which involves taxes, private property ...

Transforming the work team begins with communication and relationship building. Everyone communicates, whether it’s with family, friends or those we work with. Richard Stup, Cornell Cooperative Extension, said that in some communications, we’re actively working on building a relationship. “As leader...

“Never base a soybean variety choice on one location and one year’s data,” said Virginia Tech Extension soybean specialist Dr. David Holshouser at Virginia Soybean Field Day. The event was hosted at the Eastern Virginia Agricultural and Research Extension Center (EVAREC) in Warsaw, VA, on Sept. 23. ...

On Sept. 23, the Department of Animal Sciences at Rutgers University Graduate Program presented a webinar on “assessing muscular tension as an indicator of acute stress in horses.” The study presented was a prototype for using the approach in assessing stress in veterans with post-traumatic stress d...

No matter how dairy calves are fed, the goal is the same: to make sure calves have a good start. While some farmers raise calves in pairs, historically, most calves are raised without direct contact with other calves. Using autofeeders for group-housed calves is a significant management switch and r...

As much as 40% of food in the U.S. is reportedly going to waste. According to the USDA, an estimated 13.9 billion pounds of food and 17 billion pounds of milk are lost to waste annually. These sobering statistics served as the anchor points of “Development of Data-Informed Approaches to Reducing Foo...

Animal agriculture contributes to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. That is a fact. However, the contribution of livestock – all livestock animals, not just cows – contributes a mere 4% of the GHG emissions in the U.S. according to the EPA. Dr. Frank Mitloehner of the Department of Animal Science, Uni...