Making dry hay isn’t easy, especially in the humid regions. For many who choose this line of work, selling hay can be equally as challenging.Whenever I visit a hay farm — and there’s been...

Sometimes an opportunity presents itself that is too good to pass up...

When margins are tight and time is money, ranchers look for ways to cut costs and boost their bottom line...

Producers in the Upper Midwest are looking at the tail-end of the growth period for summer annuals, prompting some final harvest decisions...

World Dairy Expo is known as the meeting place for the global dairy industry. It’s also an event for haymakers from across the country to come together and learn about the latest equipment, test out...

How does your brain work? Are you of the analytical ilk or are you more of a creative thinker? Do you articulate your thoughts in words or would you rather work with numbers? Temple Grandin, for...

For much of the U.S., frost is within a page turn of the calendar. That means the prussic acid poisoning alarm for sorghum-related species will promptly be sounded. In the near future, however, there...

To cut, or not to cut. That is the question Hamlet would ask if only he were a forage producer and not a Shakespeare character. More specifically, the question would be to give alfalfa a longer rest a...

What comes to mind when you think about the fall of 2021? Is it the incredibly high fertilizer prices that more than doubled year-over-year? Or maybe it’s extremely sluggish supply chains for parts...

We hear a lot about “value-added” these days. When margins are tight, farmers figure out ways to get more money from the same raw product. Often, that involves skipping the middle man and realizin...