April 2011 Blog Posts (4)

Today, we’d like to share a recent Dairy Star article, as they feature Tom Anderson, farm business management instructor at Riverland Community College. The article recaps Anderson’s March 17th seminar, focusing on “The Financial and Production Benefits of Robotic Milking” in Elkader, Iowa.

Dairy Star has the full story in their article, Can robotics improve your…

I now have more than 800 farm equipment manuals in my collection (soon have to get rid of wife to make room for more). Balers, Tractors, Loaders, Harvesters etc. etc. and if you're stuck for a bit of information (max. a couple of pages) from any of them, just ask, and if I have it and you're a member of Farmers For The Future, I'll send it you FREE. You don't have to have contributed any old manuals to get the information you're looking for but if you have any manuals that are now surplus to…

Progressive Dairyman discusses this year’s I-29 Dairy Conference, recently held in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Among the keynote speakers were Dr. Temple Grandin, a Colorado State professor who is well known for her animal handling practices and Scott Higgins, President and Chief Executive Officer of the American Dairy Association-Mideast. The article recaps their presentations about the…

Hi everyone, my professor says to use any resources available to answer these questions, and what better resource than this website!  Any input would be greatly appreciated. Here are the questions:

1.     You want to plant full season no-till soybeans but you have a heavy population of Roundup resistant marestails or horseweed and the field has a history of problems with crabgrass and ragweed. What weed control options do you have and which will you take?…