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Posted on March 19, 2025
Once, Busy B Goat Farm was home to just a few animals with a focus on helping children learn about food production. As the children of Kevin and Liza Welch got older, Liza continued to raise goats, growing the herd and becoming involved in breed improvement. Today, the Welches’ farm in Weathersfield...
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Sonja Heyck-Merlin 
Posted on March 19, 2025
According to Dr. Noa Román-Muñiz, the first step to understanding compassion fatigue is to have a shared understanding of compassion. In 2008, Román-Muñiz joined Colorado State University’s Department of Animal Sciences as an Extension dairy specialist. She currently serves as the interim department...
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Sally Colby 
Posted on March 19, 2025
Part 1: Using drugs effectively The parasite resistance issue in small ruminants isn’t new, but it’s still a struggle for many producers. Dr. Dahlia O’Brien, Virginia State University, promotes a multi-pronged approach to managing Haemonchus contortus (barber pole worm), the most economically signif...
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Judy Van Put 
Posted on March 19, 2025
Shedding and spring – two words that go together in the Northeast. Although different horses shed at different rates and times, generally, by March most horses are well into the act of shedding. Why do horses shed their coats and what causes this to happen during spring? As the hours of daylight inc...
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jkarkwren 
Posted on March 19, 2025
I have monitored colony collapse disorder (CCD) since it was first identified by entomologists over a quarter-century ago. CCD occurs when vast majorities of bees in any given colony – generally worker bees – die unexpectedly. Because queen bees need the nectar these workers provide to nurse new bee...
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Sally Colby 
Posted on March 12, 2025
Oscar Garrison, senior vice president of food safety and regulatory affairs for United Egg Producers (UEP), addressed the issue of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) recently at the USDA Ag Outlook Forum. What he expressed about the status of the current outbreak of was sobering. “This has bee...
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Laura Rodley 
Posted on March 12, 2025
Hannah Miller of Maplebrook Farm in Sterling, MA, has been steadily working toward reviving her family farm. Her great-grandparents bought the farm in 1935. Her mother Nancy Miller grew up there and so did she. “When I grew up on the farm I didn’t have much interest in it,” said Miller. Then, “when ...
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Sally Colby 
Posted on March 12, 2025
While “manureshed” may sound like a place to store manure prior to land application, Dr. Robb Meinen, Penn State Extension, described the term as a nutrient management concept. “A manureshed is the area where there are surplus manure nutrients because of the density of animals,” said Meinen, who spo...
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jkarkwren 
Posted on March 12, 2025
According to plant geneticists, male sterility means that crops in question will not translocate nutrients for grain or seed production. Almost all of the nutrients remain in the leaves and vegetative plant tissue, producing high-quality forage. With male-sterile sorghums, no grain is produced unles...
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Laura Rodley 
September 23, 2025
Hiking, hunting, harvesting? Going for a walk in the woods? Riding your horse? Mowing your lawn? Picking apples? Beware of yellowjackets. “Historicall...
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January 22, 2025
Salt prematurely ages roads and bridges and degrades freshwater lakes, streams and drinking water. Just a teaspoon of salt permanently pollutes five g...
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February 5, 2025
Efforts to revive small business sectors have helped countless communities regain their prosperity and sense of community pride. Those efforts have be...
Gardening Farming
February 3, 2025
The middle of winter, with snow covering brick-hard, frozen ground may seem like an odd time to plan a new garden bed, but it’s the best time. If you ...