Mid-sized freestall herds averaging 24,000 lb./cow/year were netting $3.17/cwt, based on a milk price of $22.92.

HUTCHINSON - Extreme heat and a severe water shortage have chopped this year’s corn crop drastically across Kansas, especially for dryland corn.This time of year usually is hectic across the state as grain trucks line up to dump harvested corn at grain elevators. But those trucks are only trickling in as farmers come to grips with a grim harvest they hope is only a one-year anomaly.

Winners also received an all-expenses-paid trip to the American Association of Bovine Practitioners annual conference in St. Louis last week.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is requiring that 13 dairies in and near Chino take preventative measures to avoid manure runoff before the winter rains.

The suit alleges that cow culling unfairly allowed dairy farmers to earn more than $9 billion in additional revenue.

When Michele Bachmann is asked on the campaign trail about her ownership of a Wisconsin farm, she says federal payments to the family partnership have stopped and that she has never pocketed “a penny’’ of the government subsidies she denounces.