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Dairy Hay In Demand At Tested Auctions
High-quality dairy hay appears to have been in short supply in the Upper Midwest during January, according to organizers and observers of quality-tested hay auctions in Wisconsin and Minnesota....
Grass-Seed Prices Remain Flat
Weak demand continues to hold a lid on grass-seed prices in many parts of the country. “In general, orchardgrass seed prices have slipped considerably from where they were a year ago,” says Steve Wallace, Midwest territory manager for Barenbrug USA. “Prices for other grasses are off marginally.” ...
Alfalfa Hay Prices Should Strengthen
A smaller-than-expected 2009 hay crop is one of several factors that will put upward pressure on alfalfa prices this winter and perhaps throughout the year, predicts Matt Diersen, South Dakota State University ag economist. ...
Hay Stocks Increase 3%
U.S. growers harvested slightly more hay last year than in 2008, and less was fed last summer and fall due to lower cattle numbers. The result was 3% more hay stored on farms going into this winter than at the start of the previous one. ...
Design Feed Storage, Mixing Site
Consider building a single site to store all feed needs, suggests John Tyson, Penn State Cooperative Extension ag engineer. For one thing, it ...
Alfalfa Still Makes Cents For Dairies
Even with milk prices slumping dramatically earlier this year, dairy producers have been reluctant to replace high-quality alfalfa hay in their rations with other ingredients, preliminary results from a survey of Idaho dairies reveal. ...
RR Alfalfa EIS Ready For Comments
USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced Monday that it has completed work on the long-awaited draft environmental impact statement (EIS) evaluating the potential environmental effects of ...
Horse Hay Sales: Better Times Ahead
A shrinking U.S. horse population is playing a role in the lackluster horse hay sales reported by hay growers and dealers in many parts of the country during 2009....
Midwestern Hay, Straw Prices Mixed
Small square hay bale prices in the Midwest were up 19% compared to those of a week earlier, according to the Weekly Hay Market Demand and Price Report for the Upper Midwest...
Texas Hay-Buying Group Makes A Difference
A non-profit agency’s effort to help buy affordable hay this fall for livestock producers in 10 drought-stricken Texas counties has been a success by just about every measure....
Online Hay Auction Launches
A new online hay auction service patterned after eBay – eHayAuctions – has been set up by Midwestern Cattle Marketing, LLC, a Sidney, NE, company specializing in video cattle auctions. It can be found at eHayAuctions.com....
Roundup Ready Alfalfa EIS: Before 2010?
The long-awaited draft of an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on Roundup Ready alfalfa may still be released before the end of this year, say officials at USDA’s Animal Plant and Health Inspection Service (APHIS). ...
Rain Doesn’t Hinder This Hay Processor
Wet, cool weather made it a tough year for hay growers trying to put up quality hay in the northeastern U.S. But the weird and whacky weather also made it an almost ideal year for one company to use a new processing system that turns standing forages into dry hay in about four hours. ...
Southeast Hay Contest Winners Announced
Overall entry numbers were down slightly from previous years, but average quality scores were high at last week’s Southeast Hay Contest, held in conjunction with the Sunbelt Agricultural Expo in Moultrie, GA. ...
Horse Hay Market: Right For You?
With dairy farms just about everywhere facing financial difficulties, many commercial alfalfa hay growers are finding markets for their product dwindling....
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