Everyone in agriculture has either managed a cash crunch or will eventually deal with one. Jodi Gauker, Extension educator, business development at Penn State, defines a cash flow crunch as the result of insufficient money in an account to pay bills. “Some may have the philosophy that if there’s mon...

My classic 1959 copy of “Morrison’s Feeds and Feeding” (22nd edition) comes in quite handy in balancing livestock rations. That hardcover book was a relatively new text when I took basic livestock nutrition at Cornell under Professor Richard Warner in 1966. Dietary energy need was expressed in TDN (...

It’s unthinkable when it happens, but fortunately a strong community exists for when a farm tragedy – of whatever nature – occurs. That’s what we’re seeing unfold with the news of a roof collapse at Insight Dairy LLC in Little Falls, NY, on Feb. 16. This region of Upstate New York is infamous for it...