Labor Day has come and gone. Though most farmers focus on harvest this time of year, it's also a time to be thinking more specifically about potassium from several forage crop fronts. Alfalfa
Major prizes await southeastern U.S. hay and baleage producers in this year's Southeastern Hay Contest at the Sunbelt Ag Expo, which will be held in Moultrie, Ga., from October 20 to 22
Blister beetles, dead or alive, can be a major problem when they infest alfalfa fields. It's not because of what they eat, but rather what eats them. The insect is toxic to sheep and cattle
Drought impacts areas in many ways, but when an agriculturally rich state like California experiences what is their fourth consecutive year of severe drought, the losses begin to mount exponentionally
We live in a world of plastic. If something isn’t made of plastic, chances are good it’s packaged in plastic. Agriculture, specifically livestock farms, use and generate tons of plastic each
The 2015 Grassfed Exchange Conference expects to attract hundreds of farmers, ranchers and industry supporters to Mount Pleasant, Mich., during September 16 to 18
Drill Calibration from David McIntosh on Vimeo.These days, no-till drills are no big deal in terms of their frequency of use. As with most equipment, proper maintenance and calibration become critical
Though corn silage has never been front and center as a high-protein source in dairy rations, some consultants and dairy farmers are questioning why an increasing number of silage samples are well below
Stockpiling pasture forage is a tried and true method to provide forage deep into the late fall or early winter. In the most recent edition of the Ohio BEEF Cattle Letter, Chris Penrose
Time is fast approaching for the seventh annual Deep South Stocker Conference that is headed to Alabama in 2015. This year's conference will be held August 6 to 7 in Montgomery
As the summer months begin to wind down, it’s time to begin thinking about winter cereal planting. One option for planting is winter triticale. Tom Kilcer, former extension educator for Cornell University
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), there is a greater than 90 percent chance that El Niño will continue through the Northern Hemisphere winter in 2015 to 2016
"Benefits to storing forages by cutting date or hybrid type include better forage quality through improved fermentation and the option to target peak lactation cow groups to receive the highest
Wheat stubble provides an excellent seedbed to plant forages into using no-till, according to Bruce Anderson, University of Nebraska extension forage specialist
Many hay producers are frustrated by the rainy weather, acknowledges Mark Sulc, extension forage agronomist at The Ohio State University. They know that forage quality is declining with each day that
Iowa lost 21 percent of its pasture base from 2007 to 2012, according to an Iowa Beef Center (IBC) publication released last fall and reported by Dan Loy, the center's director, in their most recent
Average feeding rates of dry alfalfa hay declined in California during 2014 as the average cost of hay pushed over $300 per ton. This trend was documented in the California Cost of Production Annual 2014,
