September 30, 2006
Bake a bigger pie in an incubator kitchen
When there's only so much pie to go around, there are a couple choices. In a socialist society, it's carved up into tiny pieces and everyone gets a crumb or two. In a capitalist society, everyone fights for the biggest share, and, ultimately, it all ends up on one plate.
Ron Steiner believes in a third choice. Make the pie bigger.
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Birkholz earns Silver Plow Award
Sen. Patricia Birkholz's (R-Saugatuck) leadership in passing water use legislation that considers agriculture's unique water needs earned her a Silver Plow Award from the Michigan Farm Bureau (MFB), the state's largest general farm organization.
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New deer hunt regulations imposed for private land
After "significant input from stakeholders as to the number of deer," hunters in northern Lower Michigan will find some significant decreases in the number of private antlerless deer licenses available this year, according to Mike Bailey, supervisor of the Michigan Department of Natural Resources' (DNR) species/habitat section.
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Trim Pines Farm becomes first MAEAP-verified nursery
When Christina Yancho decided to become part of the third generation to grow nursery stock on Trim Pines Farm near Holly, she knew the preceding generations were environmentally conscious. So when the opportunity to become verified in the Michigan Agriculture Environmental Assurance Program (MAEAP) came along, it was a nice opportunity to set environmental stewardship as the bedrock of a sound nursery business.
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Why RFID tag this fall?
With our new state requirement for Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) of all cattle leaving the premises after March 1, 2007, producers need to think about when to RFID tag their cattle. This question should be answered by each individual producer as he/she decides how and when RFID tagging best fits into processing and marketing decisions on the farm.
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