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Posted on June 11, 2025
Dairy industry leaders were offered a deep dive into dairy dynamics, market maneuvers, milk metrics and the intricate interplay of supply and demand at the “Mid-Year Dairy Market Review,” presented by Mike McCully of McCully Consulting during the 2025 International Dairy, Deli & Bakery Association (...
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Sonja Heyck-Merlin 
Posted on June 11, 2025
According to Gustavo Schuenemann, the success of a dairy farm’s replacement program comes down to calves’ first 60 days of life. Schuenemann is a dairy cattle Extension specialist and veterinarian at Ohio State. If the quantitative goal is to at least double the calves’ body weight in 60 days, which...
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jkarkwren 
Posted on June 11, 2025
We just hit the two-year anniversary of the runaway Canadian wildfire smoke epidemic, the one engulfing America’s northern states in early June 2023. At that time, ABC Online news headlined “Canadian wildfire smoke live updates: Air quality alerts issued for 13 states.” Canadian officials said firef...
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Sally Colby 
Posted on June 4, 2025
As breeding season for spring calving approaches, cattle producers should understand the reasons a beef cow might not maintain a pregnancy that results in a healthy calf. “Investigating the cause of conception failure and pregnancy losses can be a frustrating pursuit,” said University of Georgia vet...
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Courtney Llewellyn 
Posted on June 4, 2025
Acute interstitial pneumonia (AIP) is a respiratory disease characterized by lung inflammation, edema and emphysema in cattle. According to Josh Szasz, DVM, with Five Rivers Cattle Feeding , it primarily used to describe a sporadic respiratory disease. Recognized as a health issue for quite a long t...
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Andy Haman 
Posted on June 4, 2025
“Just two kids with a dream” is how Deep Roots Produce ’s Liv McDaniels captioned the post. “We started our journey back in 2019 when we converted an old hay barn that sat on my family’s property into an open-air produce market. We quickly were overwhelmed by the support this community showed us and...
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jkarkwren 
Posted on June 4, 2025
During Memorial Day weekend, my wife and I spent a half day with my son Peter’s family in Columbia County. I can’t drive anywhere without looking at other people’s crops. After crossing the Hudson River, I was hoping to see distinctly formed green rows of nicely emerged corn seedlings compared to th...
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jkarkwren 
Posted on June 4, 2025
Hello, farm family! When I was a kid, we had a couple of old beam balance scales in our barn. A single scale could weigh large pumpkins during our annual Pumpkin Festival and farm kids the rest of the year. When we started growing cabbage and butternut for processing, we would place the two scales f...
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Sally Colby 
Posted on May 28, 2025
What is it? A tick bite can be more than an annoyance. For some people, checking hay for dryness, hand-weeding vegetable crops or taking a hike in the woods is the first step in acquiring a life-changing allergy to meat and any products with mammalian ingredients. The allergy and all that’s associat...
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