What can we learn from the affluent’s obsession with backyard chickens? As the Silicon Valley elite invest in heritage chickens and fancy coops, modern agriculturalists can take note of what this trend means.
Raising cattle is one challenge after another. If it’s not recovering from a natural disaster, it’s dealing with consumer misperception. That and more awaits you in this week’s Trending Headlines.
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The production goal of having high pregnancy rates early in the breeding season year after year starts with heifers that breed and calve early in their first year.
One sister manages the ranch full time and is expecting her first baby. The other works the ranch part time and is a writer pursuing a doctorate. They are both bound to the land and a way of life their father left them.
