DuPont Pioneer will be sharing the latest innovations in products and services at World Dairy Expo in Madison, Wis., Sept. 29 to Oct. 3, 2015. Visitors to the Pioneer booth, EH 2407-2509, will have a

The author is a biological systems engineering professor with the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Large round bales can be made for less cost than large square bales

Advanta Seeds, a leading international supplier of proprietary agricultural crop genetics and seed, announces the hiring of Bryan Alldaffer as a sales account manager. He will be responsible for sales

On October 1, 2015 employees and partners of Fresno-based Stoughton Davidson Accountancy Corporation join K·Coe Isom, the nation’s leading business consultants and CPAs in food and agriculture.

The author is an associate professor and extension forage specialist at the University of Georgia.Dairy producers have to keep a sharp pencil to ensure the milk check covers all their costs, but there

The words “legislation” and “effective” are not often viewed as synonymous, especially between the political mules and elephants. Over the years, however, our national decision-makers

If climate change becomes a reality as nearly all scientists predict, how will predominantly cool-season grass pastures adapt to the potential changes in temperature and precipitation during future growing

Amidst the hoopla of the best dairy show cows in North America, World Dairy Expo will also offer plenty for forage producers to do, see and learn. The gigantic trade show will host a plethora of compa

The steady, low volume trend rolls on. Below are examples of alfalfa and grass prices being paid FOB per ton (except for those noted as delivered, which is indicated by a "d" in the table below)

With the dinner tent snuggled right up to the glass windows of the Hoard’s Dairyman Farm’s milking parlor, consumers who attended the “Wisconsin Farm to Table” culinary experience

by Marvin Hall Extension Forage Agronomist, Penn State University, Dry weather during much of August and September has been great for harvesting perennial forages and corn silage

Vermeer Corporation has added a new inline bale wrapper to its hay and forage equipment lineup. The Vermeer BW5500 bale wrapper is designed to give large volume hay operations and custom operators fas

Nutritionists and farm owners/managers look to energy density measures of forages, feeds and total rations as a quick prediction for how much energy is available within the feeds that complete the die

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reminds farmers and ranchers affected by the recent wildfires in Alaska, California, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington State that USDA has program

Fall is an ideal time to apply soil amendments that enhance soil chemistry and improve soil physical characteristics. Agricultural soils with ideal pH levels and good soil structure

Vermeer Corporation continues to expand its mower conditioner line with the addition of the MC4500 mower conditioner. Designed with productivity, flexibility and convenience in mind, the MC4500

For those who have been stomping around cornfields long enough, you’ll remember when corn silage processors first entered the scene. There was a flurry of discussion whether this new technology was

Many beef producers are in a position of having too much low-quality hay or, worse yet, reduced stocks of any type of hay. Patrick Gunn, Iowa State University extension cow-calf specialist

The El Niño discussion continues, but there are still few known or tangible impacts for the U.S. In a report released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) on September

Seth HoytAuthor of The Hoyt Report, providing hay market analysis and insight. In talking with a few alfalfa seed company representatives last week, they indicated that alfalfa seed sales for fa