Horses Article Archive
Horse Hay Market: Right For You?
With dairy farms just about everywhere facing financial difficulties, many commercial alfalfa hay growers are finding markets for their product dwindling....
Flexible Annual Forage
More and more livestock producers are looking at crabgrass, not as a weed, but as a high-quality summer hay and pasture alternative. The sturdy annual...
Book Chronicles Horse-Hay Production
Many horse owners who buy hay for their animals know little about how it's made. They think high-quality hay can be harvested year-round, says Susie Walton....
Saving Songbirds
A handful of farmers in the James-town, RI, area are sacrificing forage quality to help songbirds. They're being paid to delay their first hay cuttings...
Something's Different!
If you've noticed something new about Hay & Forage Grower, it may be its new coat of paint. The magazine, with nearly 23 years under its belt, now boasts...
CRP Adds Incentives
Additional payment incentives will be provided through the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) to eligible ag producers, according to USDA. Included are...
Super Memories
When Carl Stiemsma won the World's Forage Analysis Superbowl, he was a young dairyman striving to improve milk production in his registered Holstein herd,...
Superbowl Shows Diversity Of Quality Forages
The World's Forage Analysis Superbowl was started to create an awareness of the differences in forage quality and of the value of forage quality to the...
Aiming For Answers
Nebraska hay growers have been frustrated for years with wide variations in forage-test results from laboratories. Big differences in relative feed value...
University of Nebraska Closes Testing Lab
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Soil & Plant Analytical Laboratory has closed its doors, says Mark Lagrimini, head of the university's agronomy and...
