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Posted on November 6, 2024
Part 1: What’s the problem? Dr. Frank Mitloehner, professor and air quality Extension specialist at UC-Davis and director of the CLEAR Center , collaborates with the animal ag sector to create better efficiencies and mitigate pollutants. Mitloehner also focuses on food production challenges that wil...
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Sally Colby 
Posted on November 6, 2024
While ballot initiatives aren’t common in rural areas, farmers should take note of what’s happening in other cities – even across the country – because there’s a chance an activist movement in one area will eventually become a problem in another. For example, an upcoming Denver, CO, ballot measure w...
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Kelsi Devolve 
Posted on November 6, 2024
Working in agriculture can be dangerous, with lots of hazardous equipment being operated, chemicals and pesticides being applied and exposure to environmental factors. In fact, Sheri Saskowski, the safety manager at Wyffels Hybrids , said, “Agriculture has one of the highest rates of work-related in...
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Sally Colby 
Posted on November 6, 2024
For the most part, chickens and other poultry species mind their own business and don’t bother other birds except for positive social activities. However, some negative behaviors, especially aggression, affect bird welfare and productivity. Dr. Richard Blatchford, associate poultry specialist, Cente...
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Enrico Villamaino 
Posted on November 6, 2024
Greg LaBarge, an agronomic systems field specialist at Ohio State University, conducts research on nutrient management and water quality issues. He focuses on the 4R (Right Source, Right Time, Right Rate, Right Place) application management of nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P) and potassium (K) in row cr...
Crop Comments
jkarkwren 
Posted on November 6, 2024
According to Steve Barnhart, Extension agronomist at Iowa State University, the first few frosts of autumn bring the potential for prussic acid poisoning when feeding forages. Some forage species, primarily sorghums and closely related species, contain cyanogenic glucosides. These are converted quic...
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D. Baron Samedi 
Posted on October 30, 2024
Here are the silly, spooky stories we printed in our Oct. 30, 2024 editions. Have a happy and safe Halloween! Ghostly tradition continues at Harvest Hollow Farm For generations, locals have whispered about eerie happenings at the old barn on Harvest Hollow Farm. This year, those rumors have been con...
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Sally Colby 
Posted on October 30, 2024
One of the keys to a successful dairy program is an excellent feeding management program. James Salfer, Extension educator with the University of Minnesota, has extensive experience developing nutrition standards for both conventional and robotic dairy herds and has seen the results of various progr...
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Sonja Heyck-Merlin 
Posted on October 30, 2024
Imagine flying a drone equipped with sprayers across a soybean field, targeting only weeds that eluded the first round of spraying. Or imagine an implement that can kill specific weeds with laser technology. These technologies are not outlandish, and according to Dr. Muthu Bagavathiannan of Texas A&...
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Laura Rodley 
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