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Posted on June 18, 2025
According to the New Orleans Times-Picayune ( nola.com ), “A large Saharan dust plume will soon blanket Gulf Coast.” That was the headline on June 6. The brown haze over the central and western Caribbean is a Saharan dust outbreak that left the African coast on May 21 and was forecast to reach the G...
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Enrico Villamaino 
Posted on June 11, 2025
Dairy industry leaders were offered a deep dive into dairy dynamics, market maneuvers, milk metrics and the intricate interplay of supply and demand at the “Mid-Year Dairy Market Review,” presented by Mike McCully of McCully Consulting during the 2025 International Dairy, Deli & Bakery Association (...
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Sonja Heyck-Merlin 
Posted on June 11, 2025
According to Gustavo Schuenemann, the success of a dairy farm’s replacement program comes down to calves’ first 60 days of life. Schuenemann is a dairy cattle Extension specialist and veterinarian at Ohio State. If the quantitative goal is to at least double the calves’ body weight in 60 days, which...
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Greg Hitchcock 
Posted on June 11, 2025
For more than a century, Riveredge Farm in Castorland, NY, has remained in the Lehman family. These days, the farm is run by 30-year-old Curtis Lehman, who took over operations in 2020 from his parents. “Our family has owned the farm for 102 years,” Lehman said, reflecting on its deep-rooted legacy....
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jkarkwren 
Posted on June 11, 2025
We just hit the two-year anniversary of the runaway Canadian wildfire smoke epidemic, the one engulfing America’s northern states in early June 2023. At that time, ABC Online news headlined “Canadian wildfire smoke live updates: Air quality alerts issued for 13 states.” Canadian officials said firef...
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by Sally Colby 
December 3, 2025
There are several primary goals for a profitable beef cow/calf herd – the majority of herd females should achieve viable pregnancies and calves are bo...
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by Deborah Jeanne Sergeant 
December 3, 2025
Improving both profits and animal welfare was the theme of “Farm 5.0 and the Future of Dairy Care,” a webinar recently presented by Beverly Hampton Ph...
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by Courtney Llewellyn 
December 3, 2025
It’s no secret that sugar maples are the preferred variety of trees for sugarmakers. But in the interest of making the most of what’s already growing ...
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by Laura Rodley 
December 3, 2025
Axel Linde of Lindenhof Farm in Kirkwood, PA, wears a sweatshirt embroidered with the words “Turkey Whisperer” when he sets up the market table where ...
