Grazing or feeding green sorghums, sudangrasses and sorghum-sudangrass crosses to cattle can be a bit worrisome because of the threat of prussic acid poisoning, but there are ways to mitigate that risk.
After more than a month since widespread flooding and blizzards devastated cattle producers in Nebraska and surrounding states an animal rights group is using the tragedy to push a vegan diet.
A farmer and a farm worker are on probation after applying liquid manure onto a field that resulted in runoff into a nearby stream. The farm was fined $50,000.
Gov. Sam Brownback extended a welcome to Kansas for Dairy Farmers of America (DFA) during the cooperative’s annual meeting this week in Kansas City, Mo.
For the past three years Fustead Holsteins has been increasing herd size after moving from a tie-stall barn into a free stall. In 2014, Brian and Wendy Fust made the move to invest in new facilities near Wausau, Wisconsin. Their son Tyler and daughter Jennifer both live with their spouses and children just a quarter of a mile from the family farm that was started in 1905
Handing over the reins to the family farm can be a difficult process, but it is the ultimate goal of most families to pass on the farm to the next generation.
