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March 15 2024
Emptying your pockets before throwing your jeans or coat in the wash is especially important for farmers — you never know what will end up in there after a busy day on the farm
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March 12 2024
Daylight savings time is a period of adjustment for us as well as our animals
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March 1 2024
Farming brings special people into our lives, and some of these lifelong friends are hard to say goodbye to
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Feb. 28 2024
Focused on educating consumers on the importance of agriculture, Pagel does so through children’s books
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Feb. 20 2024
The time to review a protocol is before procedural drift causes a problem
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Feb. 16 2024
On our farm, we are always evolving, and in the near future, that includes the way cow traffic will flow through our freestall barn
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Feb. 15 2024
Adjusting to parenthood for us means incorporating our daughter into everyday farm life, and although it’s not always easy, we are loving it
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Feb. 14 2024
This Valentine’s Day, I am reminded of what we love about dairy farming
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Feb. 13 2024
If you don’t tell your story, someone will tell another story
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Feb. 1 2024
I have found that promoting dairy products in schools is fun for students and rewarding for farmers
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Jan. 30 2024
It is easy to get burnt out during a long winter. We must do what we can to stay healthy
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Jan. 25 2024
Dumping milk is painful but what we have to do when a tank is not safe to sell
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Jan. 19 2024
As farmers, we face many difficult moments and failures, but the moments of success are worth the work
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Jan. 18 2024
It takes extra time, resources, and resilience to care for livestock and equipment in frigid temperatures
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Jan. 12 2024
It is common for producers to experience lower butterfat tests and higher numbers of butterfat inversions this time of year
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Jan. 12 2024
Now is a great time to conduct a farm security audit to prevent activists from targeting your dairy
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Jan. 10 2024
We talk a lot about the business side of transition but not much or at all about the emotional and social changes
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Jan. 5 2024
A dairy farm seems like the ultimate dream for a cat
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Jan. 2 2024
As we enter a new year, remember that goals are part of a business plan
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Dec. 13 2023
Bringing our issues to lawmakers’ attention is the only way they will know what we are facing