"As the month of April wound down it brought with it many firsts. The list topper was the first significant rain of the year."
“Twins in beef herds are more common than people might think, but they need to be watched closely in the first 24 hours to make sure both calves get colostrum from the dam.”
I have been waging war with the eastern red cedar all my life, nothing delights me more than to see one of them cut up or to see a big one go up in flames when we are burning pasture. I must admit that I am torn because the house we live in has a nice windbreak of eastern cedar, but that is …
It’s that time of year when the preliminary results for Nebraska ag land and rental rates comes out. On average in 2024, the market value for all agricultural land in Nebraska was $4,015 per acre, a 5% increase from the previous year.
"We found trading cards, business cards, notes, family pictures, and even a softball on our first voyage along the field edges after the storm."
"I’m crying not from pain but because I have two pot loads of cattle that need to be in Ogallala for the sale the next morning, and now what?"
While demand is still strong for the highest-quality farmland, prices appear to have plateaued for lesser-quality land.
While demand is still strong for the highest-quality farmland, prices appear to have plateaued for lesser-quality land.
Farming is not a game. Yet it was a game that saved the farm of George and Ann Rohrbacher. The Farming Game has sold more than 1 million copies since its debut the weekend before Thanksgiving 1979.
Warm spring weather has brought out the hunger in a tiny alfalfa pest.
With boots on the ground, spending quality time learning the ropes at regional feedlots, Kansas State University’s Feedlot Boot Camp program has sparked interest and solidified career paths for many in the feedlot industry.
K-State veterinarians offer recommendations about how to manage a bull if he doesn’t pass his breeding soundness exam
A Kansas State University agricultural economics professor whose nearly four-decade career includes helping to generate more than $2.7 billion through a grid premium program for producers has been named the 2024 winner of the Mark and Eva Gardiner Innovation and Excellence faculty award.
"Speaking of yearling bulls, I am very, very pleased with them this year. This is by far the most uniform set that we’ve raised."
I don’t know why, but the hardest thing about being a parent is admitting that your kid is right.
Later planting dates may be one way soybean growers can thwart the yield-robbing pest known as the soybean gall midge.
HOMINY, Oklahoma – Cole McKinney leapt onto the edge of a metal fence and began banging its side, trying to spook an almost-700-pound bison into turning around inside its pen. But the bison repeatedly lowered its horned head into the fence, resisting McKinney’s order to face the other way.
"We could see the tornado from our front porch and prayed it would not hit our farm."
Farmers of old wore the signature straw hats and bib overalls. If the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) completes its mission to grow plants in space, future agriculturalists may be sporting space suits and moon boots.
"It is getting closer to being my favorite time of the year. The grass has really greened up in the last couple weeks and it will take off when we get the much-needed rain that I know will eventually bless us."
My first ATV had been my go-to for more days than I could count, but over 27,000 miles of rough Sandhills country, plus one, at times, erratic female driver meant it had earned its retirement.
Individual identification of cattle is important for many reasons, making it possible to identify a number of important management aspects.
Did you ever have one of those days when everything worked just like it should?
It's go time – the day we've been waiting for since the last day of harvest 2023. All the winter meetings and preparation time have come down to this moment when it's time to get seed into the ground.
The wheat streak mosaic virus, transmitted by wheat curl mites that reside in volunteer wheat, poses problems for producers and requires thorough management, according to Kansas State University wheat disease specialist Kelsey Andersen Onofre.
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