Deere Ottumwa Works Announces Temporary Layoffs
Nearly 500 production employees at the John Deere Ottumwa Works, Ottumwa, IA, will be laid off until later this year “to ensure that factory production is aligned with market demand,” according to Deere & Company. A total of 494 will go on indefinite layoff effective June 29; another 195 will face periodic inventory adjustment layoffs throughout the next several months...
Forage Testing Program Encourages Producers To Check DCAD Levels
A forage-testing program that provides complimentary and discounted Dietary Cation-Anion Difference (DCAD) forage-test analyses to dairy nutritionists and producers started last week. The Arm & Hammer Forage Testing Program is hosted by Arm & Hammer Animal Nutrition, partnering with Cumberland Valley Analytical Services, Inc.; Dairyland Laboratories, Inc...
Dairy Program To Cull Almost 103,000 Cows
Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) tentatively accepted 388 bids representing 102,898 dairy cows and 2 billion pounds of milk production capacity in the first of a series of herd retirements planned over the next 12 months. That represents the largest single herd retirement carried out in the six-year history of CWT, a producer-funded national program developed by National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF)...
Managing In Tough Times
The University of Nebraska is offering growers online resources to help them manage their operations and family expenditures in tough economic times. The online resource covers crop and livestock production tips...
Stock Conservatively When First Grazing Former CRP Ground
Producers may want to graze livestock on Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) ground coming out of contract, says Walt Fick, Kansas State University research and extension range and pasture management specialist. But stock lightly, he advises. “Most CRP stands coming off contract are initially not in condition for full grazing pressure...
Alfalfa Stem Nematode Outbreak In California
Alfalfa stem nematodes may be causing reduced growth and alfalfa crop losses in many parts of California, according to University of California Cooperative Extension (UCCE) experts....
Producers Are ‘Moderately Equipped’ To Handle Financial Crisis, Survey Suggests
Most producers will go through financial stress in the next three years, predict 84% of U.S. ag professionals recently surveyed. But surveyed experts thought the majority of producers were ...
Letter To The Editor: In Response To ‘Roundup Ready Reality’
The science of genetic engineering (GE) systems must include management. (See Roundup Ready Reality, January issue.) It is not responsible to select most of our crops to be herbicide-resistant. Super weeds are increasing. ...
Pork Concerns
Despite pork’s export sales success, there are areas of concern driven by the global economic slide, Daley notes....
U.S. Pork Exports Attain 17 Years of Record Growth
Pork was the U.S. meat export success story in 2008, achieving 17 consecutive years of record growth, according to the U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF)....
USDA Cancels Mandatory Premises Registration Memo
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has retracted a memorandum mandating premises registration under the National Animal Identification System (NAIS)....
Panelists Debate RR Alfalfa Contamination Issue
Possible contamination of conventional alfalfa’s seed supply by Roundup Ready alfalfa was a hot point of the most recent debate over whether or not the transgenic crop should again be legalized...
Displaced Texas Livestock Need Feed, Resources
An estimated 20,000 head of displaced cattle and horses are in immediate need of hay and fresh water as a result of Hurricane Ike’s storm surges in southeastern Texas, livestock...
Color Change for Kuhn Knight
In July, 2008, Kuhn North America changed the paint color of gold Kuhn Knight-brand products to...
eHay Weekly Offers New Editor, Design
Watch for a new editor, new focus and a new look for eHay Weekly, the online weekly newsletter from Hay & Forage Grower magazine. The newsletter, in its sixth year of publication, provides weekly production...
New Flail Conditioner Is Built For Grass-Type Hay
A new flail conditioning system has been designed and built for customers growing grass-type hay, says Krista Knigge, Case IH hay and forage products marketing manager...
Winterhardy Hairy Vetch Available For Northern U.S.
The first winterhardy, early flowering vetch variety for the northern U.S. has been released by the USDA-Agricultural Research Service (ARS). Vetch is a cover crop and ...
Roundup Ready Alfalfa Can Be Grown Only For Research
Commercial hay growers will not be allowed to plant Roundup Ready alfalfa under permit this coming spring as was reported in Iowa earlier this month. That’s according to Tom Sim, director of the Biotechnology Regulatory Services’ Regulatory Operations Program under USDA-Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service...
Growers Can Tag Roundup Ready Alfalfa By Lot
Alfalfa industry objections to tagging Roundup Ready alfalfa bales individually after a court order reversed the deregulation of the crop have led to additional options in identification requirements. Growers can now identify genetically modified alfalfa by lot...
Got Fire Ants? Beware Where You Market Your Hay
Because of hay shortages and increased hay movement, USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has stepped up its enforcement of a federal quarantine to prevent the spread of fire ants
That means growers in fire-ant-quarantined areas who have hay for sale must be sure to sell only to buyers in other quarantined counties or states...
Versatile Teff Performs Well In Pennsylvania, Specialist Says
An Ethiopian summer-annual grass called teff could be a valuable asset to Pennsylvania growers, says Marvin Hall, Penn State extension forage specialist. He’s optimistic that teff can be grown in the state as successfully as other summer-annual grass...
North Dakotan Nominated U.S. Ag Secretary
President Bush has nominated Edward Schafer as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture. Schafer, former two-term North Dakota governor, would replace Mike Johanns, who resigned as agriculture secretary in September to run for the Senate seat...
Arkansas Grower Recognizes ‘Sale’ As Possible Scam
Twenty-three-year-old Judson Lindsey has been saving and scrimping to build up his own farm near Camden, AR. This year he had some extra hay for sale. So, having read about the Arkansas Hay Directory on hayandforage.com, he listed his hay – using his email address as contact information.
That email address was enough for two possible hay scammers to reach the young farmer...
Kentucky Governor Expedites Hay Deliveries
To help farmers survive Kentucky’s exceptional drought conditions, Gov. Ernie Fletcher issued an executive order directing the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet to waive all fees normally associated with intrastate and interstate transportation of agricultural relief supplies...
Magazine Web Site Offers More Forage-Related Info
Hay & Forage Grower’s newly redesigned Web site – hayandforage.com – offers the latest in forage-related information in an easy-to-find format. It boasts of one-stop information on hay, silage, grazing, forage testing, forage equipment, marketing and other forage-related topics...
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