Aug. 22, 2016
S&W Seed Company (Nasdaq: SANW) today announced the promotion of Dan Gardner to the newly created position of Chief Marketing and Technology Officer...


Aug. 22, 2016
In April, CLAAS of America and BayWa AG announced a partnership to grow the business for CLAAS products in the province of Alberta...


Aug. 22, 2016
Northern New York. Hot, dry summer conditions can lead to insufficient hay and pasture forage for dairy farms. Could late summer planted oats be an option to fill that forage gap?...


Aug. 21, 2016
The start of corn silage harvest for 2016 is just around the corner. Most corn silage is harvested from late August through early November...


Aug. 16, 2016
For more than a decade, Talbert Manufacturing, a North American leader in specialized heavy-haul solutions, has manufactured its 55CC close-coupled lowbed trailer...


Aug. 16, 2016
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 wh...


Aug. 16, 2016
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...


Aug. 16, 2016
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...


Aug. 16, 2016
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. Fortunately, haymaking conditions have been very good, and we have not had many summer thunderstorms that result in rain-damaged hay. As noted in an earlier report, many growers started cutting earlier this year because of market conditions and the demand for high-quality...


Aug. 16, 2016
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...