Profiles
Necessity is often the mother of invention – that goes double for farmers. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
For Dawson, Minn., hog farmers, Wayne and Laura Dahl, good just isn’t good enough. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
It’s been a dream that Alberta’s Chrapko and Kotelko families have been pursuing as owners of Himark BioGas for more than a decade – development of a closed-loop cattle, biogas and ethanol production system that they can market globally. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
Customers often ask custom manure applicator Eric Dresbach to point out where he has land applied the manure from their hog or dairy farms because when they inspect the job, they can’t smell it. He takes that as a compliment. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
The spring of 2010 is one the Ziegmann brothers, Bob and Kermit, will long remember. The snow had piled high in Wall Lake, Iowa, and in early March it began to melt. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
The Funk family farm in central Illinois was established in 1824, a mere 48 years after the signing of the American Declaration of Independence. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
In 2006, the Bullard family was growing crops and raising hogs and decided to expand their operation by raising turkeys. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
Wet manure, sand bedding and freezing cold temperatures – these are three ingredients that don’t mix well. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
A dairy farm in the Edmonton, Alta., area is doing its part to help improve the operation’s environmental footprint and was recently nominated for national recognition for doing so. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
A liquid manure pit claimed the lives of three family members from PA working to agitate and pump the lagoon. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
Each year the National Pork Board honors farm families that demonstrate a firm commitment to safeguarding the environment and their local communities. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
Given its reputation as an environmental leader, one might expect that California would be among the first adopters of new custom manure application technologies. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
Si-Ellen Farms has been dealing with growing pains and manure management issues for more than 15 years. They feel only now do they have the ideal program in place. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers! 1 comments
Brothers Ed and Tom Maljaars went into business together in 2004. They bought a working, 80-acre dairy in Rosedale, B.C., and moved their families out to homes on the property. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
Continued production of compost using their dairy manure was just too good of an opportunity to pass up for the operators of Nebraska’s Prairieland Dairy, even when they switched from organic compost to inorganic sand bedding. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
One thing leads to another. Necessity is the mother of invention. Those old adages are certainly true at Baarsview Farms in Deroche, B.C. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
When you find something that works, stick with it. That’s how Malcolm DeKryger, vice-president of Belstra Milling, feels about the two-barn sow unit at Pembroke Oaks Farm, in Wheatfield, Ind. The successful design is something they’ve used at four of their locations. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
Eggs are big business in Iowa with farms producing anything from shelled eggs to liquid eggs to even dehydrated eggs. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
In the most basic sense, everything within the farm feeds into everything else. This is the objective of Stoney Point AgriCorp, a family-owned cattle-raising farm in Texas that was founded in 1988. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
Bill Couser is the owner of Couser Cattle Co., a multi-faceted operation that annually feeds and finishes 5,000 to 6,000 head of cattle, and produces both corn and soybean seed. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!