Brent Bryant, managing director of Beef Hoop Systems, keeps cattle under a hoop barn at his company's research farm Crops are not the only things wilting in the sweltering summer of 2012; cattle, the ...

AUSTIN, Minn. — Keith Ellis traded his off-farm job for full-time farming two years ago. He expanded his hog production capacity by building three more hoop buildings and adding sows. He markets all ...

FREDERICK — By using a hoop barn with a compost bed pack and paying close attention to DNA testing to capitalize on the traits of his animals, a cattleman near Frederick feels that he’s made some ...

Farmers are struggling through one of the more difficult summers in Iowa in decades. In addition to the drought that’s wilting crops, the extreme heat is stressing animals. Last summer, heat stress ...

BRATTLEBORO — After several days of oppressive heat, it's a wonderfully cool and windy day at Rebop Farm, high on a hill on Sunset Lake Road in Brattleboro on Friday morning. Sitting in the shade of ...