by Laura Rodley
Dysfunctional soil in your fields can’t attend a self-help program. It needs your help to bring it back to life, following nature’s system of using microbes and nutrients in organic matter to bring it back to life. Benefits include higher crop yield, less petroleum-based product use, less pesticide use, and a way to keep water in the soil through crop cover rather than irrigating, cutting down erosion, and a reverse of drought conditions in pockets throughout the country.
How do you do that? By planting cover crops that are rolled over and by not tilling, or reducing tilling, and keeping your soil always covered which forms a detritusphere, or armor. Continue reading
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Virginia Beef Expo brings industry together for a weekend of fun
by Jennifer Showalter
HARRISONBURG, VA — Like in years past, the 2013 Virginia Beef Expo recently drew producers, exhibitors, lenders, industry officials, salesmen, and others who make up the beef cattle industry together for an eventful weekend at the Rockingham Fairgrounds. From cattle sales, shows, contests, educational workshops, to a trade show that offered something for everyone, the 2013 Virginia Beef Expo was a great success. Above and beyond all the activities that went on, the Expo provided an opportunity for cattlemen to simply come together and visit with old friends and meet new ones.
The World of dairy calves and heifers
by Stephen Wagner
Half the battle of putting on a successful trade show often depends upon where it is held. For the 2013 Dairy Calf and Heifer Conference, the Lancaster Convention Center in Lancaster, PA proved to be ideal. In recent years has the former Watt & Shand department store been transformed into a center that is state-of-the-art in architectural splendor, a complex that retains the old exterior of the former landmark store, with an imaginative interior full of color, comfort, and comportment. Continue reading
Angus breeder Aldridge has a hall of fame career
by Karl H. Kazaks
YANCEYVILLE, NC — Earlier this year, Bobby Aldridge was inducted into the North Carolina Angus Association Hall of Fame. The honor is reserved for individuals who have made significant contributions to the breed and to the association.
Aldridge describes being part of the Hall of Fame as “the biggest honor.”
