Goat Lady Dairy will be celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2020. But the farmland’s connection with the family of owner Carrie Routh Bradds goes back a bit further than that – roughly 200 years, in fact. “My great-great-great-grandfather John Routh was a tobacco farmer, and he first lived in a log ...

Troops to Tractors, a program of the Pennsylvania Veteran Farming Project (PAVFP), is dedicated to assisting veterans with obtaining the funding, skills and mentorship needed to successfully transition from a military career to an agricultural one. PAVFP services are available to all active duty mil...

by Jana L. Davidson, Education Content Specialist for the Progressive Agriculture Foundation Did you know the skin is the body’s largest organ? Our skin protects us from heat, sunlight, injury and infection – however, we often neglect making it a priority to protect our skin on a daily basis. Thankf...

Over the past four weeks, a group of farmers participated in an intense Milk Flip Cup Challenge on Instagram. Sixteen of us were organized into a bracket and played each Saturday (or whenever we weren’t too busy on the farm). My first competition was against Zach Johnson, known on social media as @M...

Growing up on my family’s dairy and crop farm crafted me into the person I am now. In high school, working on the farm led me to discover I enjoyed working instead of playing sports. The farm also showed me that I loved working with animals, so I went to college to obtain a degree in animal science....

Organic farmers, or those considering transitioning to organic production, now have access to a set of tools for analyzing the long-term profitability potential of organic production. The Excel-based tool was conceived by University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Erin Silva to assist organic farmers...

Is insurance pest management worth it? That depends. Partnership for Ag Resources Management hosted “The Pros and Cons of Insurance Pest Management: The New IPM” as a recent webinar presented by Dr. Christian Krupke, a professor of entomology at Purdue University. The partnership is a project of the...

Although the annual Animal Agriculture Alliance (AAA) Summit took place virtually this year, the message was clear: animal activists are still working to interfere with food production. And just as the AAA hosts a conference to deliver up-to-date information on a variety of topics related to consume...

As hay gets harvested, milk quotas cut into farmers’ wallets and Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP) payments slowly dribble into the farmstead, Northeast dairy farmers are now seeing how bad the 349 million-pound “Great Milk Dump” is affecting the dairy industry and beyond. To add insult to ...