November 5, 2024• Recordings of the Dairy Forage Seminars presented at World Dairy Expo last month are available here.• Save the bats: These insect feeders are important to pest management.�...
Reports of dry weather and drought conditions never seem to leave our newsfeed. Where one region receives much needed rainfall, another is slowly progressing from moderate to severe to extreme drought...
In every edition of eHay Weekly, we offer examples of market prices for alfalfa and grass hay from selected state USDA reports. Those reports are also used to complete the Market Update column toward...
I’m a big believer in no Christmas preparations or activities until after Thanksgiving. So, when it was suggested that I hang the Christmas lights on the house last week, my response was a hard “n...
Below are examples of alfalfa and grass prices being paid FOB barn/stack (except for those noted as delivered, which are indicated by a "d" in the table below) for selected states at the end of the...
Dry cows on a dairy farm remind me of Larry. They have no real obligations in life except to eat, drink, and take a nap. They are on a vacation from their normal vocation...
In the Field to Feedbunk column of the September 10, 2024, issue of Hoard’s Dairyman, Ev Thomas correctly pointed out that management is as important — if not more important — as forage variety in affecting forage quality...
Preliminary analysis of corn silage samples in the U.S. reveals a high increase in mycotoxin contamination compared to 2023, with all samples containing two or more mycotoxins...
