Disease classification is a very important aspect for both swine producers and veterinarians. It helps provide a roadmap for how to manage viruses within herds, and PRRSV has been a major problem for the swine industry for many years.
Zinc oxide is a wonderful tool for nursery pigs. However, there have been concerns about the environmental impact ZnO can have. Several research studies have been performed to identify potential alternatives to ZnO that are more environmentally friendly.
“It’s all about putting wholesome food on people’s plates.” Big, wild spaces and wide open sky, what better place for a cattle ranch than the living Wild West of BC? This Story from the BC Farmers’ Market Trail follows owners Randy Jones and Juri and Irinel Agapow who found their home along the Chilcotin River with Hanceville Cattle Company. Even when a wildfire threatened their livelihood in the first year […]
The EFP program – a voluntary, educational tool for assessing environmental risk and facilitating knowledge sharing at the farm level- has been used across Canada since the mid-nineties. Now, in 2022, there is an opportunity to rethink the future of the EFP program. On May 5th, 2022,?Dr. Bronwynne Wilton?with the Wilton Consulting Group shared the results from the forthcoming policy paper?Achieving Balance, The Future of the Environmental Farm Plan in […]
More Wisconsin farmers are getting fieldwork done after a week of mostly-good weather. Amy Penterman and her husband Sander operate Dutch Dairy near Thorp in Clark County. She tells Brownfield a lot of corn went in last week. “We are very fortunate at our farm. Ten minutes before the rains came through, our custom planter was able to finish up all of our corn, so we have all of our […]
Better weather helped Arkansas farmers make big strides in planting progress. Planting progress for most crops is near average, despite the late start. Brad Doyle says they thought they’d get started early. “We thought we were going to really jump in in late March/early April because we had a dry harvest last year,” he says. “We were set up to have one of the strongest no-till plantings we’ve ever had.” […]
A wetter than normal Spring means many Missouri farmers are in the field a little later than usual. Missouri Soybean’s agronomy and research director Eric Oseland isn’t worried and says that farmers still have plenty of time to get the crop in the ground without seeing yield loss. Oseland encourages growers to not rush planting. Learn more at mosoy.org. Brought to you by Missouri’s soybean growers and their checkoff. ...
The Chairman of the Michigan Corn Growers Association says after a six-week delay the planting season has turned into a sprint. Matt Frostic of Sanilac County tells Brownfield, “In a seven-day period, I’ve never seen so many planters rolling in fields and crops getting put in—a very productive week. While progress remains behind normal, he says the delayed start helped farmers get the supplies they need and sugarbeets have even […]
Planting progress picked up in parts of Minnesota last week. USDA’s latest crop progress report says corn planting reached 35 percent, compared to 94 percent a year ago and the five-year average of 72 percent. Soybean planting is 11 percent done, well behind last year’s pace of 85 percent and the usual pace of nearly 50 percent by mid-May. For small grains, wheat is five percent planted, barley is at […]
