The Farm Survey

03/30/2018

Dairy farms around Vermont are struggling amid low milk prices that are in some cases well below the cost of production. The result is that an increasing

08/10/2017

We can all be cow whisperers.

A cow will tell you what she needs, and if you listen closely, you will figure it out before it costs both of you.

07/26/2017

Progress is inevitable?

Openness to learning means steps toward moving forward when it comes to robotic dairying

07/18/2017

Something stinks here.

Lawsuit claiming 200 cows produce the same amount of waste as a city of 96,000 people is exaggerated 10 times.

02/03/2017

Love it.

Only a farmer

01/01/2017

Happy New Years everyone!!

08/30/2016

Manure pits. Scary.

Mike Biadasz died Aug. 15 after being overcome by fumes from a manure pit.

01/06/2016

By working with Dairy Management Inc., McDonald’s has incorporated more dairy products into its menu. Recently, the world’s largest restaurant switched from margarine to butter.

01/06/2016

An important update...

Beginning in January 2017, producers who regularly use medicated feed for performance enhancement will be limited.

01/06/2016

Blizzard in TX and NM kills 35,000 cows.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/06/us/in-west-texas-hundreds-of-dairy-cows-killed-by-blizzard.html?_r=0

More than 35,000 dairy cows died after a two-day storm hit West Texas and New Mexico on Dec. 26, leaving farmers unable to reach them amid gusts of 80 miles per hour and 14-foot snow drifts.

12/30/2015

Sobering.

For Trevor Shafer, a 26-year-old farmer in Green City, Missouri, farming has always come naturally. But with rising prices of land and a bad year for crops and cattle, it

10/19/2015