Every June, we celebrate both cows and farmers with Dairy Month. Those of us who like to put some miles under our feet also celebrate Global Running Day on June 5. I didn’t really begin running seriously until my senior year of college, but since then I’ve tackled some pretty big races, including th...

Discussing how to nurture resilience in grasslands as part of the 2024 NOFA-Vermont and the MOFGA Climate Forums was Jaime Garzon. Garzon is an assistant Extension professor and dairy forage educator at the University of Maine Cooperative Extension. A Different Perspective on Soil “People, when they...

Two years ago, a TV commercial aired in which an all-wheel-drive SUV pulled a landscape gravel rake across an oceanside sandy beach, gathering huge quantities of litter. The now-clean beach was shown with swarms of baby sea turtles “winging” their way surf-ward, no longer impeded by human debris. Th...

GALAX, VA – Sarah Torres is the fourth generation of her family to farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia near the North Carolina border. The 2x/3x 150-cow Holstein dairy is solidly a family affair, with much of the work done by Sarah, her husband Armando, Sarah’s veterinarian sister Mary and ...

There are a number of native warm-season grasses (NWSGs) that are well-adapted to growth in the eastern U.S. They are highly productive in summer months, a period when commonly used cool-season grasses are less productive. But in spite their productivity, concerns with forage quality and early seaso...

A number of fast food companies have committed themselves to an ambitious set of carbon goals for 2030. What implications does that have for producers? According to Belinda Richardson, manager of U.S, sustainable sourcing for McDonald’s , it can mean profit opportunities. In an effort to meet their ...

During the last week of May, the same chilly weather that made emerged corn look yellower than growers liked also made autumn-planted winter forages (triticale, rye, wheat, barley and some speltz) look pretty good. That was particularly the case if these small grains got a dose of nitrogen (N) as so...

Rob Cook, chair of the National Grazing Lands Coalition, outlined what he called the “tools, techniques and strategies to improve grazing” earlier this year at CattleCon . Cook, who is also the director for business development for Bamert Seed Company in Muleshoe, Texas, said that his work has him f...

Despite a popular talking point, teenagers are motivated – it just might look a little different from what motivates you. A recent session from the Business, Entrepreneurship & Economic Development Team at Penn State Extension unpacked this idea: teenage workers are a crucial part of seasonal farm w...