It’s no secret that forages play a key role in dairy rations. Coincidentally, one way to reduce the cost of a ration is to include more forage

In what has proven to be a common annual phenomenon for the hay market, the average market price of hay declined in June, based on USDA’s most recent Agricultural Prices report released last week

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

Anyone who knows me will tell you that I like baseball. Perhaps that’s not entirely true; my wife would say I’m obsessed with baseball.I don’t deny it

Rock River Laboratory, Inc. has launched InField Updates, a new crowdsourced in-app tool that helps growers dial in the harvest timeline of corn intended for silage

Opening up new silage is commonly associated with a dip in milk production, but the transition can be smoother — and less costly for producers — with a few easy fixes

Barenbrug USA is introducing its newest product PastureRX which features Yellow Jacket seed coating technology

The California Alfalfa and Forage Research Foundation (Foundation), formed in 2015, is pleased to announce that it has awarded its first round of research grants

Even with the uncertainty of West Coast alfalfa hay exports to China and very light demand from dairies due to low milk prices, second-cutting alfalfa hay in Washington was finding good demand from ex

July 3, 2018 • Harvested dry hay acres in the U.S. are expected to increase by 1.3 million (2.4 percent) in 2018, according to last week’s USDA Acreage report. Alfalfa harvested hay acres

It’s a scenario that many are all too familiar with. You get a cutting of hay down and Mother Nature decides to grace the earth with rain

We are in the midst of haying season. Hay is cut, bales are made, and now it’s time to store them for future use

Sometimes it’s good to stop looking at the vegetation in the road ditch and adjoining fields and direct your eyes toward the larger landscape

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 d

On Wednesday, September 12, 2018, Virginia Cooperative Extension and the Virginia Tech College of Agriculture and Life Sciences will host the Kentland Beef & Forage Day

Farmers are invited to trek through a new heifer barn with state-of-the-art technology as well as tour alfalfa fields and learn the latest in feeding forages during the Thursday, Aug. 2

Dairy, crop and vegetable farmers looking to enhance their use of cover crop mixes will see side-by-side trials of new options at the August 7-9, 2018 Empire Farm Days at Rodman Lott and Son Farms

You’ve done the cutting, raking, and baling, and now you have a field of round bales ready to be stored for future use. You’ve put in the time, money, and effort; why not do your best to preserve

The end of July always marks a crucial time for forage producers, especially those with livestock mouths to feed and less than desirable forage inventories. But then again, even if forage inventories

Ask any producer what accounts for most of the costs of production for their operation and they will answer, “It’s the feed.” Because of that, livestock producers are always on the lookout