MANAGEMENT

Finances in a farm family are a revolving battle between using the money to replace the rickety old washing machine you’ve had since the ’90s or replace what’s soon to become a one-wire fence.

Risk management is a necessary but sometimes frustrating activity. Good risk management decisions can result in bad outcomes due to the uncertainty involved.

As forage growers continue to search for animal feed alternatives that are affordable and healthy, many are turning to grazing livestock on cover crops.

In the near future, the infrastructure of the power companies will not be able to handle the load. As we all know, it seems we are all at the end of the line when it comes to power.

I have often wondered, and have been asked several times, about the dollar value of poultry litter products as they relate to the cost of traditional rock fertilizers. I myself have used poultry litter in the past, with mixed results.

In the first article of this series (Picking apples off the grazing tree: When grazing isn't profitable), we went over extended-season grazing at a conceptual level to help understand that as we push extended-season grazing further into the winter,