The start of corn silage harvest for 2016 is just around the corner. Most corn silage is harvested from late August through early November
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For more than a decade, Talbert Manufacturing, a North American leader in specialized heavy-haul solutions, has manufactured its 55CC close-coupled lowbed trailer
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Butterflies in alfalfa fields may be free and make for a good photo opportunity, but they also can indicate future alfalfa worm-feeding issues. That’s the warning coming out of Central California
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Due to reduced yield and disease susceptibility, growing meadow fescue in the U.S. ceased decades ago. However, the grass has noteworthy potential as a companion grass in alfalfa-grass mixtures
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Through the years, farmers have devised any number of methods to estimate the moisture of cut forage in an attempt to hit the optimum harvest mark

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Steve OrloffFarm Advisor/Siskiyou CountyUniversity of California-Extension The haymaking season is marching along without anything too remarkable. Conditions are fairly "normal" for this time of year.
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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 th
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Seth HoytAuthor of The Hoyt Report, providing hay market analysis and insight Alfalfa hay exports from West Coast ports to China in June 2016 totaled a record 101,591 metric tons (MT)
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TipsNotebook.com is a great resource that gives property owners the information to take on new projects with their John Deere and Frontier equipment
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A gentle rainfall is nearly always welcomed by crop producers, including those who rely on irrigation to produce a profitable yield

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The new Excelerator® 8005 builds on the superior vertical tillage performance growers have come to expect from Kuhn Krause products
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A Forage Technology Field Day is being presented by Harvest Tec, Inc. and Utah State University Extension on Wednesday, August 24
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Calibrate® Technologies announces an agreement with Dairyland Laboratories, Inc., to offer Calibrate® forage quality tests test for starch and fiber digestibility as well as Calibrate® RFQ
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If there’s a need to extend the grazing season or bolster stored forage inventories, oats may be your answer. Late summer-seeded oats thrive in cool conditions, have high feed value, and can
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The question of whether to have a specific ratio of calcium (Ca) and magnesium (Mg) in the soil has been tossed around amongst agronomists for years. But does the ratio really matter? And will

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“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” ― Abraham Lincoln If you’re in the business of harvesting forage with machines of the h
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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
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Rocky Lemus, Extension forage specialist, Mississippi State University Producers across the state have been battling excessive heat and variable rain
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The new 1870 Air Hoe Seeder from John Deere features the latest in precision placement and depth and pressure control to make it one of the most rugged, dynamic air seeders on the market today