Understanding the costs and dangers of birds on your feedlot

 Understanding the costs and dangers of birds on your feedlot  Birds in your feedlots can be costing you far more than you realize. Feedlots are ideal refuges for birds, especially in the winter months when alternate food sources are not available and natural roosting places are less hospitable.How much feed...

Social Media and the Dairy Industry

 Social Media and the Dairy Industry  By Bruce Derksen for American Dairymen  There is no getting around it, social media is a fact of life.  It is becoming a language unto itself throughout all of society, filled with texts, pictures, videos, blogs and chatting with two hundred and eighty word...

Dick Meyer Co Concrete Grooving

 Dick Meyer Co. Concrete Grooving   Lameness Prevention.  Don't Let Them Down!  DM Co. has been in the business of concrete grooving to provide superior traction on otherwise slippery concrete floors for over 30 years. We have done safety grooving for all manner of livestock housing as...

Texas Rancher Garners Support and Feeds Over 100,000 Displaced Residents from Harvey

Texas Rancher Garners Support and Feeds Over 100,000 Displaced Residents from HarveyArticle provided by Aimee MurryMike Arnold, owner of Arnold Land and Cattle, has garnered support from industry leaders to help assist the 20,000 plus displaced rural residents and ranchers in Texas following Hurricane Harvey. Arnold...

Dick Meyer Co. Concrete Grooving

Dick Meyer Co. Concrete Grooving. Lameness Prevention. Don't Let Them Down! DM Co. has been in the business of concrete grooving to provide superior traction on otherwise slippery concrete floors for over 30 years. We have done safety grooving for all manner of livestock housing as well as industrial...

A Perfect Time to Share Dairy’s Story

A Perfect Time to Share Dairy’s Story By Doug Ode In mid-June, approximately 1,300 people – including family and friends of all ages – visited our farm in Brandon, South Dakota. They enjoyed a delicious pancake breakfast, cheese and ice cream samples, and toured our 380-cow dairy farm. They...

Agrigain: Making Your Soil Work For You

Agrigain: Making Your Soil Work For You By Maura Keller Mike Arnold, owner of Arnold Land and Cattle, is onto something. Spending the majority of his life in the cattle industry, Arnold understands what it takes to produce exceptional dairy and beef cattle. That’s why, three years ago, Arnold founded...

Celebrating Our Month (and Milk!)

Celebrating Our Month (and Milk!) By Donna Telle, dairy farmer, Uniontown, MissouriThere’s a month for everything, but very few of them have been around for 75 years. But June Dairy Month has been, and I would imagine it’s engrained in the consciousness of every dairy farm family. Being a dairy farmer, it...