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Like farmers and ranchers, veterinarians love to pour concrete. Many build customized facilities dedicated to their animal health mission: examination rooms, operating theaters, cattle chutes, holding pens, loading docks.

For at least the past decade, “a growing number of peer-reviewed medical studies have linked exposure to nitrates in drinking water to elevated incidences of cancer.” As the environmental news service clearly states, this news isn’t exactly news.

Electric vehicles that typically weigh more than gasoline-powered cars can easily crash through steel highway guardrails that are not designed to withstand the extra force, raising concerns about the nation’s roadside safety system.

Properly timing corn and soybean harvest is a critical crop management decision. While an early harvest can reduce field losses, drying costs can increase. Likewise, harvesting later reduces drying costs, but may result in decreased crop quality and reduced yield.

The most recent U.S. Drought Monitor shows nearly all of the Midwest is experiencing shows nearly all of the Midwest is experiencing some level of drought.

Cassie Wallpe, agriculture educator at Batesville High School, says it takes many things to be a good ag teacher.

The key element of informed decision-making is facts. And not just any facts; the best, most tied-to-reality facts are needed to make the best decision.

The first step to a successful post-emerge herbicide application is choosing a smart pre-emergence application, according to agronomists at Beck’s Hybrids.

Sleep deficiency is a public health problem, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Build your land management and leasing knowledge while networking with other women in agriculture at the workshop series, “The Power of Negotiation & Communication: Land Leasing Strategies for Midwestern Women in Ag.”

A seventh-generation rancher, here are four things I’ve learned from growing up in agriculture.

Each year, plant-eating pests account for about 20% of crop losses worldwide. Growers have relied on what were once considered silver-bullet approaches to manage the problem: insecticides and genetically engineered plants.

In a recent telephone conversation, a southwest Kansas farmer casually noted that he had stopped growing irrigated corn some years back because “it cost too much.

Consumers are farther away from how their food is produced than ever before with farm and ranch families comprising less than 2% of the U.S. population. Now, more than ever, there’s a need and opportunity for the agriculture community to tell its story.

Liquidation of the nation’s cattle herd is expected to continue in 2022. “The first major trend we’re going to be seeing this year is herd liquidation,” said Elliott Dennis, agricultural economics assistant professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

No single grazing system will work for all cow-calf operations. “I work with a lot of producers and we do a lot of different things,” said Mary Drewnoski, beef systems specialist and animal science associate professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Farmers face increased anxiety associated with a higher risk for alcohol misuse, according to a study discussed during an AgriSafe webinar.

Taking complex agricultural research from concept to project to practical application in the field requires specials skills. To find those skills requires a search for professionals with a history of accomplishment.

Intelinair, the maker of AGMRI, announced the addition of LeAnn Bruns as territory account manager with sales responsibilities in Indiana.

With long workdays during harvest season, it’s easy for farmers to put their own health on the backburner. Making small diet changes can help farmers stay healthy and have more energy.

Avoid foodborne illness this harvest season by freshening up your food safety awareness.

Extreme drought shows no signs of releasing its grip on North Dakota, despite recent cooler weather and widespread rainfall.

By late fall, much of the Midwest is a pleasing landscape of dry, harvested corn fields. It makes for a bucolic rural scene on highway drives. But the corn litter that’s left over doesn’t seem useful, at least to untrained eyes.