Key Takeaways
- Jerry Davis For Agri-View
This is the time to begin looking, noticing and utilizing spring things as they come out of hibernation, grow out of hiding and are influenced with a changing photoperiod. Much of what happens is an organism’s developmental response to the length of light periods and dark periods. Animals an…
- Jessica Ryan USDA
Researchers from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service are helping poultry farmers protect their flocks and their employees, while improving poultry production. USDA Agricultural Research Service researchers recently developed an indoor air scrubber that purifies…
- Colton Tripp Kansas State University
Focusing on the improvement of cattle genetics, cow herds, animal welfare and generational transfers were focal points of the 113th Cattlemen’s Day, which was recently hosted by Kansas State University's department of animal sciences and industry.
- Dominic Erickson North Dakota State University
As outdoor temperatures begin to warm, the potential for grain storage problems increases.
- Curt Vlietstra Boehringer Ingelheim
Beef-on-dairy calves often change locations multiple times before they’re six months old, facing new environments, nutrition and herd mates at every stop — all of which can stack up the stress and risk of bovine respiratory disease.
- Chris McCullough For Agri-View
KWAZULU-NATAL, South Africa – It was a morning South African dairy farmers Carol and Craig Houston were dreading, as staff told them 50 cows were showing signs of the dreaded Foot and Mouth Disease. Even though the country had been plunged into an FMD crisis, the Houstons had tried their bes…
Madison College in Watertown is offering a Youth Tractor Safety course beginning March 7. Classes meet March 7, 14, 28 and April 11 and 18 at Lake Mills High School, 615 Catlin Drive, Lake Mills, Wisconsin. Testing is from 8 a.m. to noon April 25. The cost is S150. A $50 scholarship is avail…
- Sarah Pfaff-Cavadini For Agri-View
This past summer I came across a box of love letters that my dad, Tom Pfaff, had written to my mom. I have no idea how they found their way to her because all he put on the envelope besides “Miss Ann Van Dunk” was “Holmen, Wisconsin.” ZIP codes were not used until 1963 but I’d still think a …
- Chevy-Lynn Vaske Kansas State University
Persistent drought has already tested ranchers across western Kansas this winter — and now, prairie fires have added another layer of strain for cattle operations working to protect both land and livestock.
- Jason Maloney For Agri-View
Some things are easy to start but difficult to control and difficult to end. Arguments, wars and wildfires are among them. And while few of us have the power to start a war, and we can learn to control our tendency to argue, we often become complacent about wildfires. Many of us have not eve…
- Staff at Colorado State University
Maintaining the health of small acreage pastures can be challenging, even in years with normal rainfall and snowpack. The semi-arid climate of Colorado prevents dryland pastures from achieving the same level of productivity observed in states that receive greater precipitation. As a result, …
- Lynn Grooms For Agri-View
STOUGHTON, Wis. – Farming is a family affair for the Furseth family. While some families struggle with “the generation gap,” the Furseths say they haven’t had any big arguments.
It's that time of the year again. Agri-View offers a list of available agricultural scholarships.
- Ellie Kluetzman For Agri-View
All winter long we may yearn for the warmth of summer, but not me. I do love a good sweat but I don’t miss the bugs.
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- Michael Langemeier and Joana Colussi Purdue Center for Commercial Agriculture
Brazil is projected to produce a record 6.5 billion bushels of soybeans in the 2025-2026 crop season, while farm margins should decline to their worst level in almost two decades. Depressed soybean prices, increased production costs and weak port premiums have compressed profitability for Br…
- Jerry Davis For Agri-View
March showers wake up things, said Doug Williams at DW Sports Center in Portage, Wisconsin. Early blooming begins. Robins are able to find earthworms. White-tailed deer coats, even with old hair, look tidy.
- Shelly Mayer Professional Dairy Producers
Some days it feels like the world has slipped into high gear with the throttle wide open. Prices jump. Conflicts overseas add tension to every news cycle. Weather swings from one extreme to another. And now spring fieldwork is here with more acres, fewer hands, longer hours, tighter margins …
It's that time of the year again. Agri-View offers a list of available agricultural scholarships.
- Jason Maloney For Agri-View
We look at the present and the past to attempt to predict the future. Prognosticators can often at least provide educated guesses for the future through analysis of past trends and present conditions. Shipping can provide insight into economic forecasts and economic health in Wisconsin, the …
- Julie Belschner
SAN ANTONIO, Texas – The 2026 Commodity Classic in San Antonio was full of information regarding weather, agricultural markets, crop diseases, livestock challenges and ag profitability. But there were several groups there to offer help with what those ag aspects create – stress. Without help…
- Lynn Grooms For Agri-View
OREGON, Wis. – Life presents many ups and downs. But Aaron Shotliff has experienced more than his fair share – from the highs of buying a farm in 2015 to the lows of losing his dairy herd to stray voltage. Determined to bounce back, he began to graze steers. But after a year of poor average …
From a surprising heatwave in California to blizzards burying parts of the Midwest and storms rolling into the East Coast, chaotic weather March 16 put more than half the nation's population in the path of extreme conditions.
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