Nov. 7, 2015
In honor of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, AGCO (NYSE: AGCO), a global leader in the design, manufacture and distribut...


Nov. 7, 2015
Rock River Laboratory, Inc. announces the launch of Visual Reports, a revolutionary new results report format. Offered as a compliment to traditional numbers-driven laboratory results reports, t...


Nov. 7, 2015
Deere & Company (NYSE: DE) and The Climate Corporation, a subsidiary of Monsanto Company (NYSE: MON), have signed definitive agreements for Deere to acquire the Precision Planting LLC equipm...


Nov. 7, 2015
More than 70 of the nation’s leading food and agriculture associations – including the American Farm Bureau, American Fruit and Vegetable Processors and Growers Coalition, American Soybean Association...


Nov. 7, 2015
Dr. Larry Redmon, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service state forage specialist, has been named the associate department head and AgriLife Extension program leader of soil and crop sciences a...


Nov. 7, 2015
In the brief, post-harvest, fall season before daylight grows short and the first frost prevents cattle from grazing in the pasture, farmers and ranchers running cow-calf operations finally have the t...


Nov. 7, 2015
Darren Wallis joined Bayer today as the new North American vice president and head of communications for the CropScience division...


Nov. 3, 2015
Stockpiling tall fescue in pastures for winter feeding is a common practice to help stretch stored forage inventories. Fescue forage quality can be very good, but John Jennings, University of Arkansas extension forage specialist, cautions that energy supplementation may be needed for lactating cows in late winter. He notes, however, that forage crude protein (CP) generally stays above cow requirements through the winter. Arkansas on-farm demonstration...


Nov. 3, 2015
The all hay price held steady for September at $145 per ton, while alfalfa hay dropped only $2 to $157 per ton from the previous month (see table). The prices were reported last week in USDA's Agricultural Prices report. For hay other than alfalfa, prices actually increased by $4 per ton to $119. The current value is only $6 per ton lower than September 2014 (data not shown). Alfalfa hay prices in most states showed minimal month-to-month changes. Exceptions were the...


Nov. 3, 2015
By Glenn Shewmaker Extension Forage Specialist University of Idaho Meadow voles are wreaking havoc in southern Idaho! Large acreages are set up for a potential 25 to 50 percent...