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How farming spurred Paul McCartney’s return to music
After The Beatles broke up, one member fled to the farm. Why? Farmers don’t care about celebrity status. Paul McCartney is holding a sheep. I started to pass by but immediately stopped. A member of The...
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Is beef herd expansion coming to a halt?
Location, weather and forage supply will determine how low cow numbers will go. By Scott BrownIs the size of your beef cow herd changing this year? More than likely, it depends upon where your...
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Leveraging the corn-livestock connection
Feed remains the No. 1 use for corn in the United States. How does the industry maintain demand?While corn growers are getting attention these days through their work to help maintain demand for...
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Trump resists WHO effort to limit antibiotic use in farm animals
U.S. is instead drafting alternative that appears more favorable to agribusiness.by Andrew Martin and Jared S. HopkinsThe Trump administration is resisting the World Health Organization’s effort to...
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Florida agronomist who started career during WWII to turn 106 years old
Elver Hodges started working at the University of Florida Range Cattle Research and Education Center just before the U.S. entered World War II.By Brad BuckElver Hodges, who started working at the...
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Rural economic outlook promising
• Wheat prices are expected to hold well into next year. • Beef cattle prices likely will remain strong. • Farmland values are expected to stay strong. • Farmers and ranchers also will face more rules...
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Wearable tag tech helps track cow health
Allflex offers SenseTime for beef, letting producers track cattle health through wearable ear tag technology.What could you do if you knew in real-time which cows were in heat? What about cows that are...
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Animal Ag Alliance releases report
Taking Action for Animals Conference Report details observations from event organized by HSUS.The Animal Agriculture Alliance released a report detailing observations from the Taking Action for Animals...
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Meat processors struggle to recruit, retain workers
Industry challenged by shrinking labor pool and new facilities coming online.Some meat processing facilities are struggling to keep doors open amid low unemployment rates, new facilities coming online...
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Nuisance lawsuits now threaten all farmers
At issue are lawsuits filed against pork producers in North Carolina by neighbors of the farms who sued for damages from excessive noises, odors, flies, buzzards and other concerns.Nuisance lawsuits...
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Compare your cropland value, rent payment to Southeast averages
Cropland values and rent go up and down across the Southeast in 2018.The average value of cropland and rent can vary from year to year in the Southeast, and between this year and last, averages dropped...
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Calm, short-haired cattle produce better in the Southeast
About half of the world’s meat and 60 percent of its dairy comes from the tropics and sub-tropics, Cattle are a little like humans: They are more productive when they are cooler. With cattle, a cooler...
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Sister’s early labor delayed shipping day, but welcome to the ranch, JB
New baby JB was not about to miss out on Shipping Day 2018.There’s usually not a breeze to be found on that morning. For us, shipping day takes place in July or August when the chance of being...
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Alfalfa: ‘The queen of forages’
If you have a really good management aspect of alfalfa, you can produce some straight up rocket fuel.When he talks to farmers about growing alfalfa, Dennis Hancock says he will either talk them into it...
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New invasive tick poses threat to livestock, humans
Entomologists warn of "Longhorn" tick moving into Arkansas; Texas Oklahoma next? Tick found in eight states since 2010.There's a new tick in town, or at least on your doorstep, if you live in Oklahoma,...
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Getting ready for Florence; it’s happening again
Like his neighbors, Kingstree, S.C. farmer Atwood McIntosh is praying and preparing as Hurricane Florence approaches. Major storms and flooding hit the Carolinas in 2015 and 2016. Now, Hurricane...
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Social media reports show Florence's impact on Carolina farms
It is too early to know the full gravity, and the concern for life and recover remain paramount at this time, but Hurricane Florence hurt Carolina farmers.It is too early to know the full gravity, and...
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North Carolina pork producers prepared and handling Florence
There are no reported breaches of treatment lagoons and no reported instances of lagoon contents spilling out, known as overtopping.Hog farmers in North Carolina are watching with great concern the...
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Hog virus in China accelerates research at K-State
Scientists at the Biosecurity Research Institute have been studying African swine fever for three years; an outbreak in China raises the alarm.By P.J. GriekspoorThe rapid spread of African swine fever...
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AgriLife Extension provides livestock assistance in response to Hurricane...
Strike response team heads to North CarolinaThe Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service has deployed the first of two animal strike response teams to North Carolina to provide assistance with...
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