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For John Phipps, Farm Journal Field Days, a pioneering effort, surpassed his expectations. He explains why it’s an example of the adjustments we are all making in our lives to make our lives more livable.
There are 1,000 prizes up for grabs during your attendance of Farm Journal Field Days, which runs Aug. 25-27.
Farm Journal Field Days is days away! Plan to join us Aug. 25-27 for this free event.
The Food and Drug Administration has released its National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System (NARMS) Strategic Plan: 2021-2025, and announced 2020 Public Meeting of NARMS scheduled Oct. 13 and 14.
Farm Journal Field Days will be virtual, but also bring farmers two on-farmsessions. Those will be hosted Aug. 25 at Blue Diamond FarmingCompany in Jesup, Iowa, and Aug. 27 at Newcomer Farmin Bryan, Ohio.
You’re responsible for giving helpful feedback to employees. Here’s advice to make awkward conversations a little less awkward.
The agriculture industry was pleased with the Senate vote to confirm Bill Northey for a post at USDA.
If you can figure out how to bridge the generational divide, your business will thrive as we approach the 2020s.
“This time of year can be especially hard on pigs and people who have endured a long winter,” says Lisa Becton, DVM, director of swine health and information with the Pork Checkoff.
The price of biofuel blending credits tumbled Friday on mounting speculation that the fight by independent oil refiners to change U.S. laws mandating the use of ethanol will lead to rule changes.
In addition, agricultural producers, as a group, tend to be very independent, do it ourselves types, and the transition into being people managers instead of maybe “livestock or crop managers” is not the easiest.
In addition, agricultural producers, as a group, tend to be very independent, do it ourselves types, and the transition into being people managers instead of maybe “livestock or crop managers” is not the easiest.
Here’s how to talk about compensation in an interview.
Comparing production measures in a broader group allows us to see where we are as a business and what we should be working to improve.
We still believe rising global income in 2018 will produce record demand for pork, and U.S. offerings will have no difficulty finding a home among that demand.
AP hosts international guests on an Illinois pork tour and opens a PVC extrusion facility; GlobalVetLINK wins award; and Corteva Agriscience announces a new seed strategy.
Alltech’s Aidan Connolly discusses how new consumer demands and preferences will change the way we farm, grow, process and provide food.
Breakeven prices are used to examine the relative profitability and competitiveness of a farm’s enterprises and when developing marketing plans.
So-called hot Dog Water was being sold in Canada for US$28.85 a bottle, and people were buying it. Although it professed health benefits, it didn’t. It was actually a study in human behavior.
A grant-writing session has been added to the Aug. 14-15 agenda of the Child Agricultural Injury Prevention Workshop in Marshfield, Wis.
U.S. Farmers & Ranchers Alliance (USFRA), a leader in consumer engagement for food and agriculture, has selected Erin Fitzgerald from Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy as its next CEO.
If your company’s logo is on your ball cap, your cooler jacket or even your vehicle, you are indeed an ambassador. A walking banner. A representative of your organization.
New employees can come from a variety of backgrounds with varying experience, so it is important for an employer to meet new hires with appropriate expectations and meeting new hires “where they are.”
Rates of depression tend to be higher in rural areas, yet rural residents may have a harder time accessing mental health care. A new $13.3 million study will help get the right treatment to the right patients.
I often come across posts from activist groups doing their best to undermine animal agriculture. The most frustrating thing is that I’m only seeing these posts because one of my friends has chosen to “share” them.
Live from the Farm Progress Show, Chip Flory talks with Tim Homan of Rabo AgriFinance about how to have those difficult conversations with your banker.
A new twist brings back a traditional farming practice. Growing crops and producing livestock on the same farms has a number of benefits for producers.
The disproportionately large segment of baby boomers employed in skilled trades and their impending retirement adds to the expected workforce shortage in coming years, but that might be good for new hires.
Kyle Montgomery and Brad Carson join Tonisity; Cory Culbertson joins Osborne Industries.