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Currently, processors are required to give just 28 days notice.

Chopper rollers have a life span of about 60,000 tons.

The award showcases dairy farms that have implemented innovative technology to advance their dairy business.

The key is to move cattle more frequently during wet weather.

Higher production does not guarantee profitability, but it does provide the opportunity to pay more bills as long as costs are contained.

Wisconsin and Pennsylvania have 18 of the top 25 counties with the most dairies with more than 50 cows.

As summer temperatures rise, beef and dairy animals benefit from heat abatement, says Joe Zulovich, a University of Missouri Extension specialist in livestock housing systems.

While it’s difficult to gauge the health of the farm economy, John Phipps says now is the time to sit down at the computer and enter yields and prices and costs to get a peek at a possible future.

One study found eating ice cream every morning can significantly boost your mental performance and alertness.

His bank worked with producers to restructure their debt amid the crisis, but a large number of those producers have refinanced two and sometimes three years in a row to the point where the bank can no longer help them.