The enhanced Hay & Forage Grower site now offers updated online industry news, forage research findings from around the country and comprehensive, one-stop information access to information on hay, silage, grazing, forage testing, equipment, marketing and other forage-related topics. The enhanced Hay & Forage Grower site now offers updated online industry news, forage research findings from around the country and comprehensive, one-stop information access to information on hay, silage,...

Department of Agriculture to follow a number of steps to caution against mad cow disease as it prepares to allow Canadian cattle imports into the United States. The United States will allow cattle over 30 months of age into the country from Canada, the latest step in a long disruption of trade caused by the discovery of mad cow disease there in 2003. State Farm Bureau Asking for Caution with Canadian Cattle Imports. Nebraska Farm Bureau President Keith Olsen says it's an important step to...

Can milk jugs tell you what's not inside? Ohio deciding Pennsylvania has banned hormone-free labels Saturday, November 17, 2007 3:51 AM By Monique Curet THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH What you know about your milk will be dictated by new state rules now being crafted. Can milk jugs tell you what's not inside? Ohio deciding Pennsylvania has banned hormone-free labels Saturday, November 17, 2007 3:51 AM By Monique Curet THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH What you know about your milk will be dictated by new state...

That, coupled with the fact that my grandparents also raised lambs and cows for their small dairy, provided plenty of fresh meat, milk and eggs. The fact that they relied on the chickens for food made it important to keep intruders like bobcats, coyotes, raccoons, skunks and opossums away from the chicken coop. Last week, we were inundated with smoke from the fires burning on the southern end of the state - a small price to pay, compared to the poor folks who lost their homes and...

Cancellations of export sales along with increased export competition have cast a bearish sentiment on the wheat complex. Dry conditions in the western central Plains are causing concern about new crop conditions as the crop heads go into dormancy, giving support to new crop months. Tight stocks in the United States and a struggle for acres has kept the soy market in a very strong bull market for months, breaching the $10 mark and touching 19-year highs. Comment posters are responsible for...