Haynes already has sold his 25 shorthorn and Charolais cattle, part of the cream of the crop at livestock exhibition shows and fairs around the state and country. The cattle industry has rallied behind him to buy and take care of his precious animals and help him get ready for a weekend sale. Cattle rancher Scott Haynes and his family still live in a house on the land, but even that might change soon. Haynes' whole life changed on an early October day in 2004 when a pickup truck hit his...

For home buyers seeking to escape the commotion of city life, the countryside may offer up some surprises of its own -- try tractors on rural roads, farm machinery churning in the wee hours of the morning and the stench of manure wafting from newly fertilized fields. For home buyers seeking to escape the commotion of city life, the countryside may offer up some surprises of its own -- try tractors on rural roads, farm machinery churning in the wee hours of the morning and the stench of...

Comparison of the estimated costs of BVDV ($20 to $160 per adult per year) and current testing and eradication strategies (estimated $5 to $10 per adult including labor, supplies, and testing) suggest that BVDV eradication programs are economically justified in dairies. Comparison of the estimated costs of BVDV ($20 to $160 per adult per year) and current testing and eradication strategies (estimated $5 to $10 per adult including labor, supplies, and testing) suggest that BVDV eradication...

Plentiful fertile lands became productive farms that filled stores with high-quality food and cargo ships with wool, wheat and beef. We have an economy which must maximize the amount of production and consumption and trade and export and throughput. Trainer made them to show how anyone with a little ingenuity can harness the wind or the tides to run machines cleaner and more efficient than engines that burn fossil fuels. All that changed over the next two centuries as migrants, mainly from...

beef over 15 years, but it was not immediately clear how much the two sides had conceded on other issues and whether South Korea's long-protected rice market would be opened up. The deal came after nine months of negotiations and sometimes violent protests in South Korea, mostly over fears that the country's heavily subsidised farmers could not survive a flood of cheaper U. trade pact for 15 years on Monday with only minutes to go before a deadline. Some estimates say an agreement could...