MANAGEMENT

If you’ve purchased any supplies lately – maybe a few two-by-fours or sacks of feed – then you probably had a reaction that went something like this: “Wow! What’s in that lumber or those feed sacks?”

Hold on to your hats, folks: There’s another thing we need to be worried about. Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are one of the more recent environmental concerns to crop up in agriculture.

Many of us are either just opening 2022 corn silage, while some have already begun feeding this season’s corn silage harvest.

The winter months are a good time to consider feedstuff production and management plans for the upcoming year. Cattle feeders with integrated crop-livestock systems have the flexibility to produce the feeds that best fit their operation.

People assume because I’m a farmer, my days of hard work are filled with physical activity, but that’s not always true. Farming has changed immensely in the last few decades.

For those in the beef industry, the question is not “if” you’ll be impacted by a weather-related event but “when.”