February 1, 2009
Hay Market Update
Hay Prices Remain Below Peak Levels
Hay prices throughout the country are holding mostly steady, but are below the peak levels reached several months ago. However, most remain significantly...
Features
High-Quality Alfalfa Companion
If you're looking for an alfalfa nurse crop that provides higher-quality seeding-year forage than barley or oats, consider Italian ryegrass, says Paul...
Mugged In Cyberspace
No doubt about it: The Internet can be a great place for hay buyers and sellers to conduct business. With just a click or two of the mouse and/or a few...
Marketing Hay: Stress Yield Over Quality
Alfalfa growers targeting the dairy market may want to put a bit more emphasis on tonnage and a bit less on quality this year, says Matt Diersen. I'd...
Evaluating Hay Equipment Costs
Wondering whether a bale accumulator is worth the investment? Dreaming of a large square baler? Or drooling over your neighbor's self-propelled stacker?...
Cornstalk Baler Is First Of Its Kind
Baling 20,000 round bales of cornstalks in a three-week harvest window used to be a challenge for custom harvester Eric Woodford especially in uncertain...
Meeting A Bale-Hauling Need
Nathan Woodford builds round bale carrier racks. Like many entrepreneurs, he took advantage of a business grant, writing a 54-page business and marketing...
Machine Cleans Fence Lines
Mark and Preston Stelter's fence cleaner picks up dead weeds from the ground and off fence lines, chops them into 2- to 5-long bits and deposits them...
Cutting Ash Content In Forage
If you have clouds of dust trailing your rake, you're probably adding unnecessary ash to your forage. That can lower its quality and, if it's fed to dairy...
Speedy Hay Rakes
Ingenuity has always been an important commodity in North and South Dakota. Harold Gleason of Tolna, ND, and Ray Janisch of Lake City, SD, used their...
Impressive Implements
The following new and improved forage equipment offers growers efficient ways to produce more and better-quality products. Seventeen companies announce...
Worrisome Weeds In Alfalfa
Forage and weed specialists were quizzed by Hay & Forage Grower about which weeds were more worrisome for alfalfa growers in their regions in the U.S....
How Do Weeds Affect Alfalfa Quality?
More research should be done on the effects of weeds on alfalfa quality, suggests Kevin Bradley, plant scientist, University of Missouri....
Broad-Spectrum Herbicide Now Labeled For Alfalfa
Chateau, a Valent U.S.A. Corp. broad-spectrum herbicide, has been labeled for use in alfalfa as well as in some fruit, vegetable and nut crops in many states....
Gassing Gophers In Hay Fields
A former farmer from California says he's developed a safe, effective tool for controlling gophers, ground squirrels and other burrowing animals that...
Asphalt's Advantages
We wanted to keep our product nice and clean and dry, and so far it's worked really well, says Gary Freeburg. Last summer, this Gayville, SD, hay grower...
Kuhn Acquires Crop-Packaging Division
Kuhn North America, Inc., Brod-head, WI, has acquired the Kverneland Group crop packaging division, thereby adding to its forage equipment product line....
Measure Heat Damaged Hay and Silage With Chemical Analysis
Heat-damaged hay and silage should be evaluated chemically to determine how much of the crude protein is still available to animals, says Bruce Anderson,...
Kentucky Alfalfa Conference Is Feb. 19
University extension specialists, company representatives and growers will present the latest information on alfalfa production and marketing at the 29th...
Letter to the Editor
Roundup Ready Advocates: Manipulating Farmers' Rights?
I read your article, Roundup Ready Reality?. Is the real story about emotion trumping science or is big business using the legal...
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Research in Brief
The following items report on forage-related research recently presented by University experts at meetings across the country.
