At a Dairy Grazing Apprenticeship virtual roundtable, Dan Gard, district sales manager at S&W Seed Co., recounted a heartbreaking childhood story related to prussic acid poisoning. Prussic acid is also called hydrocyanic acid or cyanide. Gard was 9, and it was his first year participating in 4-H. Th...

Clare Alderink is the operations manager of a 3,000-cow dairy in Michigan, but his experience is relatable to any dairy of any size. Alderink recently discussed some of the technology used on the farm and explained what has worked – or not. He said the key to a farm’s success is the people who work ...

Can your bull be too fat to make babies? That was one topic talked about at this year’s CattleCon . Discussing bull reproductive health were Saulo Menegatti Zoca, DVM, Extension beef cattle specialist in reproductive management with University of Tennessee’s Institute of Agriculture, and Pedro L.P. ...

Alpha-gal symptoms & the mammalian connection Sharon Forsyth, founder of Alpha-gal Alliance, wants people dealing with alpha-gal syndrome (AGS), also known as the “red meat allergy,” to have all the information they need to help manage symptoms. AGS is an allergy to mammal meat and mammal products r...

According to the New Orleans Times-Picayune ( nola.com ), “A large Saharan dust plume will soon blanket Gulf Coast.” That was the headline on June 6. The brown haze over the central and western Caribbean is a Saharan dust outbreak that left the African coast on May 21 and was forecast to reach the G...