Built fast to last 

By: Kurt Lawton

Producers use durable, quickly built walls in swine facilities.

Livestock department 

PigChamp online. Buy pharmaceuticals online. Easy cleanup. Smart scale....

For the farm department 

Reinventing the wheel. Fuel pumps. Firestone tires. Pressure washers.

Business of buying 

Equipment sales up. Seed financing deals. Livestock receipts boost farm incomes.

Cattle losses 

An incorrect price formula has cost cattle producers $54 million. USDA's inaccurate price formula caused producers to sell cattle at lower prices. The...

Business of buying 

Golden Harvest lawsuit. John Deere cuts production. Pioneer loses license. Crop-science division for sale. Tyson backs out. Vertical coordination grows.

Business of buying 

Checkoff survives. Certified seed. How you buy tractors. Record ag banking profits. Mixed profit report. No super weeds.

Clone-grown 

By: Karen McMahon

Cloning promises to upgrade animal genetics.

Livestock 

Managing manure. New feed mixer.

Manure revisited 

By: Gil Gullickson

When hog prices crashed in December 1998, cynical humorists joked that the manure was worth more than the hogs. That grim humor still applies today. Fortunately,...