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    Ask The Vet

    Q: We had a very bad cold, wet snap with lots of snow, ice and rain right in the middle of calving season. Several calves started scouring, and we treated them with scour boluses and penicillin. We lost four of them. We have not had any more cases since, but we'd like to...

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    First Look

    We're looking for great shops--imaginative, innovative, productive and smart--shops planned for hard work, equipped to make work profitable and full of the ideas that make work efficient.

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    FirstLook

    So you want to know the secret of profitably feeding cattle in 2018? The winning formula is as easy as containing North Korea, forging a national consensus on gun control and convincing President Trump to switch from his Twitter account to a locked diary. To further...

  • Inside The Market

    If you think back to last month's column ("By the Time You Read This …"), you'll recall I mentioned USDA's late-March "Prospective Plantings" report marked the unofficial start to planting season. This year, it came with fireworks worthy of the Fourth of July.

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    FirstLook

    The Soy Transportation Coalition has released its "10 Most Wanted" infrastructure priorities for policymakers to use as a guide:

  • TaxLink

    The recently passed budget bill contains a "fix" for the Section 199A dilemma with respect to sales to cooperatives. Let's review the changes to get an idea of how it will work.

  • WeatherLink

    One of the hallmark features of this past 2017–18 winter was a dramatic, out-of-bounds warm spell in the far northern latitude regions.

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