Pasture-based livestock production at first glance is a simple system. Producers use herbivores to harvest forage and create something they can sell (or enjoy)
The onset of winter gives most of us plenty of time to work in our shops, which sometimes are nicer than the house. Now is the time to go over our equipment from head to toe to make sure it is r
I meet a lot of people at forage meetings during the course of a year. Never has anyone broached the subject of sericea lespedeza . . . that’s until I met Reed Edwards at a Georgia hay conference
With rising market prices for live calves, staying up all night to supervise first-calf heifers during calving season is well worth the effort to many producers
In the Midwest, planting winter-hardy cereal grasses such as winter rye or triticale after fall-harvested corn or soybeans can provide both soil benefits and a grazing resource in the spring
Below are examples of alfalfa and grass prices being paid FOB barn/stack (except for those noted as delivered, which is indicated by a "d" in the table below) for selected states at the end of the day
The USDA Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) has posted U.S. hay export totals for 2017 and the news on the export front continues to be largely positive. Total exports of alfalfa and other hay (think
Forage — or more specifically fiber — passage rate through the cow has become a “hot” topic among nutritionists and forage researchers in recent years. It’s also a topic that
Gone are the days when warm-season weeds seemingly had a corner on the warm-season pasture market. Producers who typically focus their control efforts on warm-season broadleaf and grass weeds, such as
Consider using the cold mornings in February as an opportunity to frost-seed your pastures with clover for more productive forages this upcoming spring!
WHO: RhinoAG, Inc., the manufacturer of the RhinoAG and EarthMasterWHAT: Unveiling their newest RhinoAG products, the TS10 Flex-Wing Rotary Cutter, ACG10 Accumagrapple, and MBS Mega Bale Splitter TS10
Hay producers and visitors to the 2018 World Ag Expo (WAE) can find out just how well the new Hesston by Massey Ferguson® 2370 Ultra HD (Ultra High Density) large square baler stacks up
Case IH and The Climate Corporation, a subsidiary of Monsanto Company, announced today a new partnership that will extend and develop a portfolio of data sharing capabilities to help farmers
John Deere is featuring a wide variety of new equipment for today's farmers, along with the latest information of interest to you and your producer audiences, at the 2018 National Farm Machinery Show
Coming off a very successful 2017, Tie Down Engineering, the preferred on-demand contract manufacturer for hundreds of companies across the nation making more than 5,500 products, announced today
Growing and producing a high-quality corn silage crop starts at Day 1. Now is the best time for producers to build a plan for the upcoming growing season with their team of experts
Kuhn North America recently awarded Mike Hayen, of Cogswell, N.D., with a ceremonial check representing $10,000 off the purchase of a KUHN GMD 5251 TC center-pivot disc mower
Over 7,000 cattlemen and supporting agribusiness personnel converged on Phoenix, Ariz., last week for the 2018 Cattle Industry Convention and National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) Trade Show
