Country Folks, Dairy
A dairy farm with proximity to urban and suburban areas is ideally situated to create a high-traffic location for marketing farm-fresh products. Klein...
Posted On July 22, 2026
Country Folks is a weekly publication serving the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic agriculture industries. Our coverage area reaches from Maine to North Carolina with four regional editions. Our key market focuses include dairy, beef, crops, small ruminants and so much more. Editorial content revolves around production, animal health, industry events, trade shows and auctions.
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Recruiting and hiring are the first steps to adding the right employees to a dairy farm, but training and retraining are essential to keeping them. Ho...
Posted On July 22, 2026
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The Brassica genus boasts in its membership many of our most well-known vegetables: cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, rutabaga, turnips, kohlrabi, Bruss...
Posted On July 22, 2026
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More farmers than ever are interested in and practicing regenerative agriculture these days. They are focused on putting more back into their land and...
Posted On July 15, 2026
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There’s evidence that pair or group feeding for calves is better, but will farmers buy into it? Dr. Marina von Keyserlingk, professor and dairy welfar...
Posted On July 15, 2026
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Part 1: How Medicare works Some business practices in farming, including legally minimizing reported income, may benefit the business for a while. How...
Posted On July 15, 2026
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Just as summer 2026 was getting started, I stumbled into three situations where cattlemen reported incidence of foot rot in their livestock. Two of th...
Posted On July 15, 2026
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Farmers have a love/hate relationship with phosphorus (P). It’s a dietary requirement for livestock but significant P is excreted in manure and urine....
Posted On July 8, 2026
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Using winter rye in his crop rotation has freed farmer Sandy Syburg from a chore he never much enjoyed: spreading poultry litter. His biologically act...
Posted On July 8, 2026
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