Quality Assurance
When a commercial grower loads a truck with hay for his best dairy client, he wants to set lower-quality bales aside and send only his best hay. Identifying...
New NHA President Looks Forward
Expand and move ahead. Those are the succinct goals of Gary Smith, a Mission Hill, SD, grower and new president of the 114-year-old National Hay Association...
Look In South Dakota For Hay Bargains
Hay prices are lowest in western South Dakota, where premium-quality alfalfa is still available for less than $150/ton. Prices are near or above $200/ton...
Dairy Hay Bargains Are Scarce
Dairy producers who need hay may want to look in the Upper Midwest. The lowest prices in USDA's reporting network are in some of those states. At Iowa...
USDA Quantifies Tight Hay Supply
If Matt Diersen were a dairy producer in a Great Lakes state, he might hold off on filling his wintertime hay needs. Hay production is up significantly...
A Healthy Alternative
A cubed total mixed ration (TMR) of alfalfa, other hay and added nutrients for horses is a healthy alternative to feeding hay with commercial feed supplements,...
As Biofuel, Miscanthus Uses Less Land Than Corn
Miscanthus outperforms current biofuels sources by a lot, say University of Illinois researchers. Using the giant perennial grass as a feedstock for ethanol...
Some Prices Have Softened Seasonally
Hay prices have come down from their springtime peaks in some states, but have continued to move up in others as supplies remain very tight. Prices overall...
GPS Collars Track Cattle On Range
In 1981, Doug Johnson began studying the way grazing animals move around their pastures. Twenty years later, he added a new twist. We started using GPS...
Diet Corn Silage
Boosting corn silage levels in rations has proved to be a great strategy for pushing dairy heifer weights at calving to 1,300 lbs or more and age at first...
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