Facilities & Equipment

Given today’s high machinery costs, custom hay harvesting may be a more profitable option than harvesting with your own machinery, particularly for smaller operations. Calculating your costs of production will help you determine how much you could pay a custom operative and save money relative to doing it yourself.

While rural locations can provide many benefits to those who live there, they can also impose restrictions on personal safety.

Many cattle producers rely on direct access to surface waters, despite wanting to fence out riparian areas and protect water quality. There are many reasons for this, but the big one is the cost of creating an alternative water source.

Winter is officially here. That means bundling up for those early morning hours and struggling with the environment of your cattle’s living quarters.

Here in the mountains and foothills of central Idaho, three generations of my family have developed natural springs in order to graze dryland pastures.

The aerial view of Adam and Sarah Wilson’s cow-calf operations in Abingdon and Lebanon, Virginia, reveals lush green pastures, tall trees and 300 cow-calf pairs in each location.