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Grain & oilseed outlook for 2025

Kelsi Devolve

Posted on March 26, 2025

Farm Credit East recently invited two experts to present data at the 2025 Grain and Oilseed Outlook. Tanner Ehmke and Jacqui Fatka are CoBank lead economists, specializing in grains and oilseeds and farm supply and biofuels, respectively. Ehmke provided a baseline of where the industry sat at the to...

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Innovation starts with ‘no’

Andy Haman

Posted on March 26, 2025

“Don’t let yourself be boxed in,” Brooke White of Don’s Dairy Supply closed her session at the 2025 Ag Solutions and Networking Expo at SUNY Cobleskill. The expo, hosted by the college, CCE Schoharie & Otsego, New York Farm Bureau and others, was focused on local and regional agricultural interests....

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Fencing techniques for pigs & cows

Kelsi Devolve

Posted on March 26, 2025

The Northeast Organic Farming Association (NOFA) hosted their 23rd annual winter conference recently at SNHU. Daniel King, the owner and manager of Clarkridge Farm in Goffstown, NH, presented his recommendations for effective, mobile and low-cost fencing techniques for pigs and cows. Clarkridge Farm...

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Preventing wheat lodging

jkarkwren

Posted on March 26, 2025

Problems with lodging wheat? Lots of factors come into play, but farmers have options to improve their wheat stands. Peter Johnson, the Canadian agronomist behind the “ Wheat Pete’s Word ” podcast, presented “Breaking the Fall” at the recent Soybean & Small Grains Congress. “You lose one bushel per ...

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Crop Comments: Manage Pastures to Mouth-Harvest a 300% Return

jkarkwren

Posted on March 26, 2025

Country Folks classifieds for March 19 lists 28 hay for sale ads. In addition to that section are three more hay ads on the “farmer-to-farmer” page. None of those ads mentions forage analysis. Almost without exception, any farmer I’ve talked to who has purchased out-of-region hay has been provided f...

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Handling compassion fatigue at dairy farms

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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Studying seedcorn maggot

jkarkwren

Posted on March 19, 2025

Unlike its name denotes, seedcorn maggot ( Delia platura ) attacks more than just corn seeds. It also affects legumes, cucurbits and more. Knowing when and where seedcorn maggot (SCM) will emerge can help producers combat it more effectively, especially in light of the DEC’s prohibition on treated s...

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Strategic deworming to fight resistance, part 1

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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Horse Tales: Spring shedding

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...