Aug. 30, 2017
CLAAS of America announced new product updates to their JAGUAR forage harvesters, LEXION combines, and balers and hay tools today at the 2017 Farm Progress Show in Decatur, Illinois...


Aug. 29, 2017
With the introduction of the 0 Series Round Balers for the 2018 haying season, John Deere is offering its first North American-built round baler precutter and the industry’s first 5-foot precutter baler...


Aug. 29, 2017
Regardless of the tillage practice, creating a high-efficiency seedbed is critical for planting success...


Aug. 29, 2017
The new Dominator® 4860 meets the product requests voiced by customers searching for optimal tilled width productivity...


Aug. 29, 2017
Hesston by Massey Ferguson®, the industry-leading hay equipment brand from AGCO Corporation (NYSE:AGCO), introduced the company’s next generation of self-propelled windrowers during Farm Progress S...


Aug. 29, 2017
August 1, 2017· In USDA’s recent cattle inventory report, the number of calves totaled 36.3 million head. That’s a jump of 3.5 percent from last year and signals larger slaughter cattle supp...


Aug. 29, 2017
According to USDA’s 2014 Census of Agriculture, 97 percent of the 2.1 million farms in the United States are family owned and operated. Unfortunately, the trend for the last few years ha...


Aug. 29, 2017
For those who haven’t traveled to Kansas and Oklahoma in the fall or spring, you probably don’t have an appreciation for the dominance of wheat as a forage crop in that part of the United States...


Aug. 29, 2017
It seems that 2017 has brought more discussion about whether a beef cattle operation should buy or bale hay than what I recall seeing in the past. The beauty of such a discussion is that there is no c...


Aug. 29, 2017
Annual ryegrasses are a mainstay in many forage-grazing systems throughout the United States; however, not all annual ryegrasses are created equal.“Annual ryegrasses are grouped in two different typ...