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Dairy farmers pray that roads stay open and power stays on as winds from thunderstorms aggravated the McKinney fire in Northern California, burning more than 60,000 acres as of Sunday evening, according to InciWeb.

How can you reward team members for good work, increase employee retention and achieve your operation’s goals? Consider implementing an incentive pay system to reward your farm employees.

Managing heifer inventories on a dairy farm is not always easy. Deciding which heifers to keep and which to sell, as well as breeding decisions, can be a challenge. Experts offer seven tips on selling surplus heifers.

Staying up late, sleeping in and hours of being cooped up inside playing PS4 and XBOX. Farm kids cannot relate to 98% of their classmates’ summer break. On a farm, the entertainment is all around us.

The lawsuit filed on July 29 in the U.S. District Court in Vermont, claims that DFA has created a market that has many sellers, but only one single buyer—a monopsony—across Vermont and in 10 other northeast states.

No longer able to support continued production, Borden Dairy Co. has announced plans to close two of its plants doors in Alabama and Mississippi on Sept. 30.

Last week, the Federal Reserve enacted another 0.75%-point interest rate increase to help combat high inflation rate. This increase in interest rates adds an additional cost that the farmer must carry.