WASHINGTON, D.C. – Playing in the climate-smart sandbox has made for some strange bedfellows. What brought 70 projects and their “non-partisan,” happy grant writers together for a carbon-neutral future? $2.8 billion (yep, with a B). Guess that’s enough cash to bring about partnerships from Cargill t...

Like all dairy farmers, Chuck Fry plants crops to feed his cows, his cows make milk and he sells the milk. But Rocky Point Dairy in Tuscarora, MD, isn’t like most dairy farms. The end product is more than milk – it’s ice cream – which makes Chuck the “Ice Cream Farmer.” The farm near the Potomac Riv...

Corn harvest is when many farmers are ready to drill cover crops into their fields. Cover crops offer an array of well-known benefits, including erosion control, weed suppression, increase in soil organic matter, increase in soil nitrogen (when using legumes) and possibly a source of livestock forag...

Dr. Adrian Barragan, Penn State Extension veterinarian, said uterine diseases are among the most problematic diseases in dairy cows. Uterine diseases can cost both time and money, and there’s also potential for losing valuable genetics due to culling. While costs vary from herd to herd, uterine dise...

“The overall question we’re trying to answer is how we can use algae to reduce a cow’s carbon footprint,” said Dr. Nichole Price. Price is a marine ecologist at the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Science and a professor of environmental science at Colby College, both located in Maine. The basic idea i...

Running a farm is not an easy job, as there are many tasks that must be done on a daily basis, and it’s important to not rely on one farmer to take care of it all. Not only are extra farm hands helpful to complete the daily tasks at the barn, but dogs can also be used to take some stress off the far...

How do you know when your bull is in its most fertile state? Is your heifer ready to birth a calf? What parameters do you need to keep in mind when selecting breeding stock? The answer to these questions comes from Harrison Dudley, an associate veterinarian that provides a livestock veterinary servi...

FAIRFIELD, VA – “Farmers make money when the natural cycles on their farm work properly,” said Becky Szarzynski of Mountain Glen Farm in Rockbridge County, VA. That’s why she and her father Glenn practice regenerative agriculture on their South Poll cattle operation. Adaptive grazing and a commitmen...

Those who met for the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) meeting in Reno this summer reviewed a number of critical industry topics. Chase DeCoite, NCBA director of animal health and food safety policy, discussed the monitoring of a proposed USDA rule that will impact traceability in the ca...