The highly anticipated 2025 Cultivate + Craft Value-Added Agriculture Summit is set to take place Jan. 16 in Silver Spring, MD, bringing together a dynamic community of agricultural entrepreneurs, industry leaders and innovators dedicated to advancing Maryland’s agricultural economy. With the theme ...

TUCSON, AZ – Farmers from around the East Coast fed their animals, put another log on the fire, packed their bags and took to the friendly skies, joining over 540 farmers and ranchers at the sold out ninth National Grazing Lands Coalition (NatGLC) Conference Dec. 4 – 6. The journey suggested “The sk...

Several months ago, my friend Corey called me with a cattle feeding question. He oversees a small biodynamic dairy in Columbia County, NY. He had just gotten the bulk tank results back from the lab. They told him that milk urea nitrogen (MUN) was running 25 milligrams per deciliter (mg/dl). MUN is a...

Raising heifers has changed over the years, and Penn State ag engineer John Tyson said there are still some new concepts in heifer housing. “Calves and heifers represent the best genetic potential on the farm,” said Tyson, who spoke recently at the Penn State Dairy Nutrition Workshop. “That’s why we...

“We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve.” Sarah Cornelisse of Penn State Extension began a recent webinar with that Bill Gates quote. Complaints have value: Your clientele care about the ultimate success of your business and complaints offer a unique window into prospect...

As the livestock industry takes hits for its purported role in global warming, researchers are working on science-based concepts for potential methane reduction from dairy cattle. Dr. Guillermo Boggio, University of Wisconsin post-doctoral research associate, explained that methane emissions represe...

As this year’s first cutting hay-making season was going great, I expected that warmer-than-normal conditions might harm hay quality. I knew that Northeast growing degree days were piling up unusually fast. To wrap my mind around ongoing crop performance data, I contacted Mike Reuter, an analytic se...

Since dairy farmers can’t always predict future dairy trends and milk prices, Mary Ledman, global dairy strategist , relies on more than 30 years of industry experience to explain what’s ahead. Ledman focuses on the key export regions around the world that account for over 80% of global dairy export...

The first week of December, Old Man Pre-Winter dumped two separate doses of snow over much of the Northeast. This clumpy snow doesn’t slide smoothly into my snowblower’s intake. My machine is a 15-year-old unit which my sons bought me, new … after I commented about “heart attack snow.” Snow falling ...