Cattle farmers face higher feed costs as muddy conditions boost energy needs while cutting intake during wet spring weather.

A maple-sap tank truck sits on a muddy road at Brattleboro’s Robb Family Farm. Photo by Kevin O’Connor/VTDigger Fifth-generation Vermont farmer Charles Robb Jr. was chainsawing a beech tree in 2004 ...

BROOKINGS, S.D. -- The performance and cost of gain to background or finish cattle depends in large part on the quality of their feeding environment -- as little as 4 to 8 inches of mud can reduce ...

In the northern Plains, the spring season is not always guaranteed. Instead, weather conditions abruptly change from below freezing to relatively balmy. In essence, from winter to summer within a week ...

Put on rubber boots and old clothes and head to the Suffolk County Farm in Yaphank on Saturday to jump in mud puddles, make mud pies and march in a rubber-boot parade during the farm's celebration of ...