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Farmers recently received welcome tax relief for machinery and equipment purchases, according to Roger McEowen, director, Iowa State University Center for Agricultural Law and Taxation...More

Custom operators harvesting snaplage for clients should “err on the wet side rather than on the dry,” says Bill Mahanna, nutritional sciences manager at Pioneer...More

From 1986 to 2010, North Dakota haying rates about doubled, from $5.28 to $9.73/acre for mowing and conditioning, $4.11 to $9.13/acre for swathing, and from $2.28/acre to $4.18 for raking....More

Custom forage harvesting rates rose slightly across the country from 2009 to 2010. Here’s a rundown of what several states are reporting for average baling and silage harvest rates, assuming fuel prices ranging from $2.25 to $2.73/gallon....More

As the trend toward custom harvesting continues, it gets harder for harvesters to find data current enough to help them figure what rates they should be charging...More

Half of the 4.7 million tractors in the U S. today aren’t equipped with rollover protection structures (ROPS). If they were, injuries and fatalities could be prevented and millions of dollars saved...More

Fires in upright silos can range from being a nuisance to a financial burden to deadly if not handled correctly, says Dave Hill, director of Penn State University’s Managing Agricultural Emergencies program...More

They’re expensive and require an extra trip through the field. But pull-type machines that condition hay intensively can speed drying, potentially increasing the amount of high-quality hay harvested, Cornell University research has shown...More

Ernest Bruha was tired of looking back while moving big round bales off his fields, so he and an old college friend, a design engineer, decided to move forward – literally. They came up with the Two Banger Bale Accumulator...More

More sophisticated, efficient and powerful. That, in a nutshell, is what forage equipment has evolved to compared with what was on dealer lots 25 years ago...More

Vermeer’s high-capacity VR1224 carted wheel rake; The RD3 Series headers from Case IH; Harper Industries has introduced the 600 and 700 Series DewEze Bale Beds; The Krogmann Feeder Trailer from Krogmann Manufacturing; New Holland’s Guardian sprayers; HitchDoc has introduced a new line of industrial-grade two-stage snow blowers...More

Vermeer’s Rancher 664 round baler makes high-density bales that are 47” wide and up to 66” in diameter, weighing up to 1,450 lbs. Heavy-built and designed for user-friendly operation, its minimum power requirement is 50 hp...More