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Imagine a world where corn grain is $375/MT, barley grain is $250/MT, DDG’s are $350/MT, soybean meal is $650/MT and canola meal is $415/MT.  This is your world today in […]

No matter how often we hear and are told to prepare for stock market volatility, we are often greatly unnerved by it and wonder if there is anything that can or should be done in response

Brad Gavenlock and Jessica Achen are from opposite sides of the world, Jessica from the United States and Brad from Australia, but they have one world in common that brought them together: the world of dairy shows.

With the current volatility in the market, I thought that I would lighten things up and share some surprising and interesting financial trivia that I guarantee will not affect your net worth either way.

As a professional hoof trimmer, I have experienced days so hot that you wished you could dive into the swimming pool. A lot has been written about heat stress in

Grazing of dairy cattle is one of the more difficult feeding practices to control and manage especially when trying to meet the animal’s daily nutrient needs for optimal performance. Well

Keeping your cattle eating and drinking at the show is key to having them looking full and, in the case of cows, filling their udders. There are two main culprits—drinking

  Mark G. Cameron, PhD Dairy Nutritionist Cargill Animal Nutrition Often a dairy producer and their nutritionist spend a significant amount of their time together on-farm discussing ingredient quality, especially

When it comes to success on the show circuit it would be hard to duplicate Pinehurst Farms year of 1976. The show year was mapped out with a purpose of promotion. Seldom seen, the end resulted in the sale of just one animal paying for the entire tab of a show year.