Dealing with rain is just part of the deal if you’re a haymaker in the humid East. Even in an average year, working around raindrops is a challenge, but in a wet year, the frustration can exceed intense...

Warm, sunny days after a long dose of winter weather can make it tempting to turn cattle out on the greening new grass. However, cattle turned out too early in the spring can lead to several issues...

It was a long run of soft commodity prices, but the stagnant situation of recent years came to an abrupt halt during the back half of 2020 as corn and soybean prices skyrocketed to levels not seen sin...

It’s been known for a long time that seeding alfalfa into or immediately after a terminated alfalfa stand doesn’t often yield good results. But that’s about all we know...

There are about 200,000 alfalfa seeds in a pound. That’s also the number of opinions there are for successfully establishing alfalfa or grasses...

Making quality hay is not for the weak of heart. In the arid West, there’s the challenge of baling with enough moisture in the final product...

Forage quality test results can tell us a lot about a forage. However, we also need to consider aspects that could impact hay during storage...

Restricting the amount of water that a crop needs is not an ideal strategy to produce forages. Sometimes, however, it’s necessary...

Alfalfa hay has long been a premier forage for dairy cattle...

Similar to that 30-year-old tattoo of an ex-girlfriend’s name that seemed like a good idea at the time, some things just hang around beyond their useful life.The forage industry has several of these...