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Bilked Hay Grower Turns To Credit Cards
Commercial hay grower Barclay Lutz recently bought a Visa and MasterCard payment terminal for his office. From now on, new ...
Urge Dairymen To Keep Cows Well-Fed
Dairy producers don’t expect to make money during this down market – they just don’t want to lose more of it, says Bill Sanchez, a technical services director with Diamond V Mills, Inc. ...
Irrigate Alfalfa Early When Water Is Short
Alfalfa growers facing water shortages can hold off on irrigating for a selected cutting and still get high yields, according to ...
Sun Brightens North Dakota’s Hay Prospects
North Dakota livestock producers facing critical feed shortages were happy to see prolonged stretches of sunny weather in late May and early June, reports Julie Ellingson, executive vice president of...
Follow-Up Fosters Repeat Hay Business
Making an effort to follow up with customers after you deliver hay is an important step in developing an overall hay marketing strategy, says Dan Undersander, University of Wisconsin extension forage agronomist....
Tough Year Ahead For Exports
A dragging dairy economy worldwide continues to put downward pressure on alfalfa hay exports out of the Pacific Northwest, says Mark Anderson, president of Anderson Hay & Grain Co., Inc., an exporting firm...
Hay Stocks Increase 2%
Stocks of all hay stored on farms totaled 22.1 million tons on May 1, up 2% from those of a year ago, according to a USDA report last week. USDA also reports that hay disappearance from Dec. 1, 2008, to May 1, 2009, totaled 81.6 million tons compared with 82.5 million tons for the same period a year earlier. ...
How To Build A Marketing Web Site
A farm Web site is one of the tools Michigan hay grower Gary Carmichael is using to link up with potential buyers. "We've used a variety of traditional advertising tools over the years with varying degrees of success," says Carmichael, of Evart. "Now, as a society, we're gradually moving to a new generation of people who go to the Web first for their communication needs." ...
Check Clients' Ability To Pay
Don’t be timid when it comes to asking customers to fill out credit applications, advises George Twohig, a Chilton, WI, attorney specializing in agricultural law. ...
Seeding Depth, Soil Contact Are Crucial
Improper seeding depth is the No. 1 cause of establishment failures in forages, according to Penn State University extension forage specialist Marvin Hall. “If seeding depth isn’t correct, you might as well not bother to plant,” he says....
Midwestern Alfalfa Fields Show Heaving
Central Illinois alfalfa growers may see a lot of winter damage in fields this spring. Growers near Bloomington to Galesburg to parts north are finding heaving in alfalfa stands usually three to four years old, says Kevin Black, an agronomist with Growmark/FS based in Bloomington....
Advertising: It’s A Brave New World
With more and more people in rural areas using the Internet to conduct business (see Numbers Of Note, March 10 issue), hay growers need to be open to new ways of advertising and marketing their products, says Don Brown, Jr., a hay grower and hay and straw dealer from Davis, IL. Brown is also president of the Illinois Forage and Grassland Council. ...
