Organic Broker Answers Growers' Questions
Growers considering a switch to organically grown hay should ask a lot of questions before jumping in, suggests Lou Anderson, an organic grower and broker from Fairfield, ID...
USDA Predicts 4% Increase In Hay Acres
Producers expect to harvest 63.1 million acres of all types of hay in 2007, up 4% from 2006 harvested acres, according to the recent USDA Planting Intentions report...
Indiana Meeting Set For March 28
State Reports: Missouri
John Atkinson is curious about biomass. Atkinson, of Trails End Farm, Kingdom City, MO, currently produces 7,000-9,000 small square bromegrass bales with his wife, Mary Lou, on 100 acres...
State Reports: Kansas
Joe and Sheryl Vopat, Hamilton, KS, harvest 2,000 acres of native prairie grass as well as 400 acres of alfalfa in what they call one of the most scenic -- and historic -- areas of the world. It's called the Flint Hills...
Manure Can Boost Alfalfa Yields
Applying as much as 12,000 gallons of liquid manure or 50 tons of dry manure per acre before planting alfalfa can boost yield more than commercial fertilizers at the same nutrient levels...
Alfalfa-Grass Mixes Reduce Leafhopper Damage
Planting a cool-season grass with non-potato leafhopper-resistant alfalfa will reduce leafhopper damage and increase yield compared to...
Organic Hay Market Will Increase, Grower Says
"If you haven't had a caller asking you for organic hay yet, you soon will," Lou Anderson, president of S&L Commodities...
Return Roundup Ready Alfalfa Seed
Alfalfa growers who bought Roundup Ready seed but can't plant it need to contact their seed dealers about replacing it with conventional varieties or getting refunds, says a Monsanto spokesman...
State Reports: Ohio
Ken Little and his family won't be cutting back on hay to take advantage of high corn prices, either. In fact, they plan to plant more hay this year than ever before. "We figure when the corn market comes back down to earth in two or three years, we'll be that much farther along in the hay industry," says Little, of Wapakoneta, OH. ...
State Reports: Minnesota
Switching from alfalfa to corn isn't likely for two Lakefield, MN, hay growers. Unless 80 acres of their established alfalfa, seeded with orchardgrass just last spring, has winterkilled after a heavy December rain caused ponding....
Oats Lengthen Alfalfa Stand Life
Tom Barcellos, Tipton, CA, gets an extra year out of aging alfalfa fields by interseeding oats. "We plant 25 lbs of oats per acre in a weakening third- or fourth-year conventional alfalfa stand...
Hay Growers Offer Ways To Promote Business
One day Will Hatcher got a phone call from a woman interested in buying hay. "Where have you been?" she asked. It seemed, Hatcher told growers ...
Ruling May Impact Hay, Seed Supply
If Roundup Ready alfalfa is held off the market for an extended period, the already tight supply of conventional alfalfa seed likely will get tighter, say seed company officials...
Injunction Jolts Roundup Ready Alfalfa
A federal judge last week imposed a preliminary injunction against the sale and planting of Roundup Ready alfalfa, effectively removing the transgenic crop as a spring seeding option in much of the country...
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