Tracking Forage-Equipment Trailblazers
Self-propelled big square balers will soon be on the market for the first time, thanks in large part to Gary Kelderman of Kelderman Manufacturing, Oskaloosa, IA.
High-Level Chopping: Montanan Harvests For Rocky Mountain Clients
Brock Tibbetts and a few of his friends spend time driving in the western Montana mountains every summer.
They travel there from eastern Montana to chop oats, triticale and other mostly annual forages for about 10 beef producers. Most of the work is on flatlands, but some requires driving up and down Rocky Mountain foothills.
Heavy-Duty Biomass Harvesting
Bruce Nelson sees custom-baling corn stover for cellulosic ethanol plants as a great opportunity for young farmers willing to put in long hours.
Optimistic About Cellulosic Ethanol
Custom forage harvesters will soon gain a number of new clients if Sam Jackson’s expectations for cellulosic ethanol production are on target.
He’s vice president for feedstock development and supply at Genera Energy, Vonore, TN, where a 250,000-gallon cellulosic ethanol demonstration plant has been operating for two years
Mysterious Alfalfa Menace
An insidious insect is stealing yield and stand life from irrigated alfalfa fields in Idaho and other Western states, and many growers are unaware.
Pursuing Higher Silage-Corn Profit
Neither twin rows nor high plant populations did much to improve corn silage profitability in a study on three northeastern Wisconsin farms last year. But Kevin Jarek, Outagamie County Extension agent, thinks 2011’s wet growing season may have skewed his twin-row findings
Combine-Head Add-On Windrows Corn Stover
This combine-head attachment chops stover and puts it in windrows while the grain is being harvested, with the husks and cobs falling out of the combine being placed on top.
Crazy About Hay
This young FFA winner is enthusiastic about forages, working to own her own farm someday.
Help-Yourself Hay
Some people think Jud Harward is too trusting, but he’s been running a self-service, self-pay hay business for several years with satisfactory results
