BROOMFIELD, Colo. - Horizon Organic plans to boost what it pays its roughly 600 farmers as demand for organic milk and feed costs rise. Wednesday, January 25, 2012
BURLEY, Idaho - A Texas woman may have spent up to a week in a rental car stuck in an Idaho dairy wastewater pond after taking a wrong turn while looking for a hotel in Burley, authorities said. Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Corn production in South Dakota in 2011 totaled 653.40 million bushels, up 15 percent from 2010. Yield, at 132 bushels per acre, was down 3 bushels from last year. Producers harvested 4.95 million acres for grain, up 17 percent from 2010. Monday, January 23, 2012
December 2011 milk production totaled 760 million pounds in Minnesota, down 0.8 percent from the 754 million pounds produced in December 2010, according to the USDA, NASS, Minnesota Field Office. Revised November 2011 milk output was 707 million pounds. Monday, January 23, 2012
Corn production for Minnesota is estimated at 1.20 billion bushels, down 2 percent from the November 1 forecast and down 7 percent from the previous record high set last year. Monday, January 23, 2012
SALT LAKE CITY - More than a dozen Utah dairy farmers have won an important strategic victory in their longstanding legal battle against the Intermountain Power Project. Monday, January 23, 2012
The big question in everyone's mind is what lies ahead in 2012. The Agriculture Department revealed what they see in their crystal ball via their monthly World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report. Monday, January 16, 2012
I recently read an article in the latest issue of National Geographic about the ranchers and farmers living in the Montana Hi-Line area (the northern tier of the state). An old farmer/rancher, 76-year-old Lloyd Kanning, shared his thoughts about his life with the land. "Farming is like fighting a war," he said.
I have lots of "window time" (time spent in front of the window washing dishes) to ponder things. In the past few weeks, as every commercial on the radio has switched from where to find this and that for presents, to where to go lose weight and "Happy New Year," I started thinking about resolutions.
This extraordinarily mild and dry winter has enabled us to accomplish some remarkable feats. After the past few winters, we deemed it a minor miracle to simply get into the car and drive without first selling our souls for snow-free roads.
