You may have thought that planting a cover crop and leaving it alone until termination and planting of the cash crop is the best way to get all the soil benefits of the ground cover...
The strongest cool-season grass pastures come from varieties of tall fescue infected with a fungus. This infection can be good–or bad. It took decades to discover those internal fungi...
Anyone who has spent a considerable amount of time around livestock or forages knows tall fescue is a double-edged sword. Forage specialists from the University of Kentucky, University of Missou...
After a year of prognosticating what might be the case, we now know what is the case ... or at least as close to knowing as we can be.The USDA’s Crop Production and Crop Production Annual Summary re...
Water shortages in the West have prompted farmers and researchers to explore strategies that will cut water usage while at the same time maintaining profitable alfalfa yields. According to Dan Putnam...
Some years things just don’ t go according to how they get drawn up in the pasture playbook.That was the case in Arkansas where the fall was not favorable for generating fall and winter pasture grow...
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...
Seth HoytAuthor of The Hoyt Report, providing hay market analysis and insight. USDA’s December 1, 2016, hay stocks report showed the amount of hay in California down 5 percent from December...
KUHN, celebrating the 50th anniversary of pioneering the disc mower, is announcing the start of its promotional KUHN Model GMD 280 Golden Giveaway, or just “Golden Giveaway”!...
