With winter resulting in substantial winterkill and a wet spring delaying harvests, a lot of high-quality forage has been turned into, at best, heifer feed. There is justified concern about forage inv...

It was nearly 10 years ago when I attended an agronomy field day in Arlington, Wis., and heard John Grabber speak about some initial research he was doing that entailed establishing alfalfa under sila...

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...

This item has been supplied by a forage marketer and has not been edited, verified or endorsed by Hay & Forage Grower.The World Forage Analysis Superbowl is now accepting entries for its 36th annu...

This item has been supplied by a forage marketer and has not been edited, verified or endorsed by Hay & Forage Grower. Regularly updated satellite imagery is a valuable tool in a farmer’...

This item has been supplied by a forage marketer and has not been edited, verified or endorsed by Hay & Forage Grower. Northern N.Y. Alfalfa is an excellent source of protein in the d...

This item has been supplied by a forage marketer and has not been edited, verified or endorsed by Hay & Forage Grower.Bazooka Farmstar, a manufacturer in the manure and ag industry for 44 years, h...

Remember dust? That’s the stuff that develops when soils are dry. It has been missing in action this spring across a good chunk of the U.S. Last week, I had the chance to travel across several Mid...

Transitioning some of your grazing acres to native, warm-season perennials can pose a utilization challenge. Pat Keyser, director of the Center of Native Grasslands Management at the University of Tennessee, recommends a goal of seeding about 30 percent of pastures into natives for a typical Fescue Belt beef cattle operation. He does not suggest seeding this acreage all at once, but rather to use an incremental approach, seeding only a few acres at a time...

Warm-season perennial grasses are the most used forages in the South but require nitrogen fertilization to maintain productivity and nutritive value. For this reason, warm-season forage legumes are be...