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https://www.michiganfarmnews.com/americans-for-family-farmers-a-wolf-in-sheep-s-clothing?utm_source=Informz&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Farm+News "It’s imperative that anyone who receives a request for support from the group (Americans For Family Farmers) sees them for what they really are — an animal rights group parading as an farm-friendly charity.”
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Wellacrest Farms suffered substantial damage from the twister that tore through Gloucester County on Wednesday.
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"Northern MN bean field collapses, falls 25 feet – Twin Cities" https://www.twincities.com/2021/08/26/northern-mn-bean-field-collapses-falls-25-feet/amp/ Quite a revolting development 😶.
“Mother Nature does what she wants,” Erllene Erickson said as she surveyed the fallen field.
Photo credit to Emma Perales and Michigan Milk Producers Association .
Congratulations Emma Perales of D&P Dairy for winning the People’s Choice Award! Emma received over 20 percent of all the votes cast in our public poll. As recognition for her success, she will be receiving a $25 gift card to the MMPA Farm Supply Store. More results of the #MMPAPhotoContest will be announced in the coming days!
Apparently two farmers bid against each other and kept going, but averages now are that farmland is going half to farmers but the other half to investors.
Iowa's crop size will play a role in the prices buyers pay for Iowa farmland this year. Real estate experts call the land market the hottest in 40 years as inflation and more buyers than sellers also fuel the market.
https://www.agweb.com/news/livestock/beef/remarkable-rescue-five-farmers-save-father-and-6-year-old-son-after-falling-70 This story ran on U.S. Farm Report this morning - a lot worked together to make a successful outcome in what could have been an awful tragedy.
After six-year-old Louie Leseberg fell 70 feet into a dark well, his father jumped in to save him. What happened next, and the dramatic rescue that ensued, left even those who witnessed the rescue unable to explain.
This should garner some chuckles or snorting coffee moments.
"Farrell Flat Silo Art" https://www.australiansiloarttrail.com/farrell-flat Love the brilliant colors featured here; this mural is one of a "trail" of 9 silo art projects planned to add color and increase tourism in this area of southern Australia. Farrell Flat, South Australia
Completed in November 2020, the silo art at Farrell Flat is now the 9th silo to join the South Australian silo art trail. It depicts the last train to pass through this historic township. Using about 150 litres of paint, artists Jarrod Soden and Matthew Knights spent 140 hours painting the 30-metre....
https://www.midwestfarmreport.com/2021/04/07/wisconsin-cow-sets-new-record-for-most-lifetime-milk-produced-by-a-holstein/?fbclid=IwAR1ZjHQC-K9MtY6FaqqYeQK57og1kIJxj2CDEATAKllg9mD9ouTtgUkbKYE "Hilda" at age 15 broke the lifetime milk production record set back in 2003 (which surpassed the previous record set in 1978 by the famous Breezewood Patsy Bar Pontiac). "Today, there’s no better example of tremendous longevity, productive life, and reproductive efficiency in a cow, of any breed, any place in the world." @The Mid-West Farm Report. Andy Buttles Lancaster, Wisconsin Grant County Fair- Wisconsin News 3 Now / Channel 3000 WMSN FOX 47 News, Madison Holstein Association USA
STONE-FRONT LEADER HILDA, a 15-year-old Registered Holstein® cow, owned by Andrew Jay and Lynette E. Buttles of Lancaster, Wisconsin,... Read More
https://www.almanac.com/great-conjunction-2020-jupiter-and-saturn-meet-solstice If you have clear sight to the low SW sky just after sunset on Dec. 21 - put this on your calendars. Some speculate this is the Star of Bethlehem that the shepherds saw on their quest to locate the Baby Jesus. BTW, the next best sighting isn't until 2080, so you may want to try to catch it this time around.
Rare Jupiter-Saturn Conjunction on December 21, 2020—Closest Since the Middle Ages! See Viewing Tips from Astronomer Bob Berman.
What a slap on the face to dairy farmers who were recipients of this letter from Dean Foods. .https://www.agweb.com/article/dairy-farmer-says-she-wont-be-bullied-repaying-50000-dean-foods
Dairy Farmer Says She Won’t Be Bullied into Repaying $50,000 to Dean Foods by Tyne Morgan | Read more Regional News about Agriculture and Crop Production on AgWeb.
This must have taken some incredible timing! (or maybe some cute out-takes) https://fb.watch/24Fbwx-GSb/
Laughed way more than I should have at this.
Farm Babe's article urges common sense and encouraging the public to go to the source, instead of blindly believing entertainment stars' opinions on agriculture. AGDAILY
Oh boy.
Dr Eugene Gu, a doctor with over 532K Twitter followers, sent out a tweet on the evils of "factory farming." 😬🤦♀️
Do you think "factory farms" are evil? I used to. Until I starting touring the inside of them.
Wow! Very impressive! There is a TON of credible and impressive science that goes into our food supply. I feel comfortable eating meat from farms of all shapes and sizes.
It's sad that so many vegan activists and people who've never raised livestock a day in their lives have opinions that are not based in reality. Please keep an open mind on this topic!
We have to take back the narrative and showcase the science and what it's REALLY like. 98% of farms are family farms! Technology has allowed them to do more with less, but the farmers VALUES have not changed.
I've written many articles on the topic but here is just one of them. Please read in it's entirety!
PBS NewsHour story segment tonight.
The American barn is a quickly disappearing cultural icon.
Can an art project that's looking to create dialogue in the local community change its fate?
Love the coordinating outfits and creativity in these leadline classes. North American International Livestock Exposition
Do you know what will make any Monday better? An album full of leadline pictures!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nziA33FrhoI&ab_channel=LandO%27LakesInc In recognition of National Farmers Day, which is celebrated every year on October 12. "The profession of farming began around 12,000 years ago with the domestication of livestock as hunter/gatherers settled down and started to plant their own food. In short, farming is one of the oldest jobs around. So let‘s take a moment to give some love to all the farmers who work tirelessly to feed us year round." National Today Land O'Lakes, Inc.
In 1921, 320 dairy farmers met in St. Paul, Minnesota, to form the Minnesota Cooperative Creameries Association. Their idea was simple -- join together to ef...
Springing Holstein heifers enjoying the last of fall weather in west Michigan.
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Farm Babe hosts Burger King to shed light on best animal practices.
Today. Was. Amazing!
This is filming of a little "fireside chat" with the Chief Marketing Officer of Burger King, Fernando Machado, and myself on the farm here in Iowa.
After they did the very offensive #CowsMenu commercial, I reached out to have a dialogue on how farmers view sustainability and what we do to help protect the environment.
It was a very successful couple of days out here and I'm SO grateful they took the time to learn from us. I view this as a very successful meeting and the start of a great long term conversation to include farmers as part of their future marketing efforts.
Shout outs to Cody Turk Iowa State University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Ag Inspirations Brightmark Iowa Farm Bureau and more for also sharing their expertise on the farm tours. Stay tuned for video footage and so many more posts! It is great when we can come together with ideas on how to further strengthen the message of ag and really listen to one another. ♥️
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Hoping this week's Hurricane Laura spared this part of the Delta that has withstood so much devastation starting from the spring of 2019.
Parts of the Mississippi Delta had been underwater for over one year when the pandemic began to unfold. Farmers and local businesses say falling crop prices and low yields are adding to a pile of slow-moving crises.
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https://www.michiganfarmnews.com/pandemic-problem-farmworkers-leave-fields-due-to-covid-19-testing-mandate?utm_source=Informz&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Farm+News "Dozens of Michigan farmworkers are leaving unpicked fields and orchards. They say it’s driven by the state’s new emergency order requiring mandatory testing for COVID-19. It’s only the Latinos (required testing). Why? I work with other American people here; they’re not getting tested.” Michigan Farm Bureau Michigan Blueberries
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WGN TV Tom Skilling Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship WGN-TV's chief meteorologist reports on the August 2020 severe weather "Derecho" - focusing on agriculture - that devastated central Iowa's grain storage facilities, corn/other grains ripening for harvest, and rural lands/buildings.
Ten-million of Iowa's 30-million acres of crops were severely damaged by Monday's derecho. Entire grain bins were crushed by storm gusts--some exceeding 100 mph. It's estimated Iowa lost 25 million bushels in grain storage capacity due to storm damage. The extent of the damage was evident Friday--days after the devastating derecho swept the region. https://www.farmprogress.com/disaster/derecho-assessing-damage
Iowa was hardly alone. Farms in Illinois and Indiana reported damage as well.
This toggled sequence of "before and after" satellite images out of CIMSS at the University of Wisconsin-Madison dramatically illustrates the extent of the damage: https://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-blog/images/2020/08/200728_200811_terra_modis_trueColorRGB_Iowa_derecho_crop_damage_anim.gif
https://www.porkbusiness.com/article/day-derecho-hit-our-farm?fbclid=IwAR19miPmZZjvvTMlPXUCKlPRHq99exlZXogxDCcApAvHaXpeZMTtEi6isuU Farm Journal's PORK Central Iowa Agronomics Furst-McNess Company Zearing, Iowa
At 11:44 a.m. on August 10, Kelly Sheets, an Iowa pig farmer, posted a simple plea on Facebook as 100-mph winds devastated his farm in central Iowa. “Please pray. This is ugly.”
Matt Schwab reminisces about the bonds between farmers and special tractors. Thanks for sharing Julie Uebler Schwab. 🚜🐄
The classic 806
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Thanks, Judy and Clayton Lang, grain farmers, for posting photos and live feeds, so the rest of the USA can see through your eyes, the devastation of your town, Hamburg, Iowa...which tragically is all too typical of the whole eastern and central Nebraska/western Iowa regions. May God be with you, as storms continue to dump more precipitation and some rivers have not even crested yet.
Dr. Pol and filming crew were out at De Grins Oer Dairy last week to do DA surgery on a large Holstein cow. An incredible amount of footage is taken, edited down, and broadcast up to a year later on his show. Thanks to Ramona Okkema for this footage. Latest reports are that the cow is up and looking for feed, but those of us in dairy know that this twisted stomach surgery on a cow that's just calved can mean a tricky recovery. Fingers crossed!
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