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Wheat stubble provides an excellent seedbed to plant forages into using no-till, according to Bruce Anderson, University of Nebraska extension forage specialist
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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
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A National Forage Week is being officially recognized for the first time in 2015 from June 21 to 27
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The availability and price of urea have made it a popular fertilizer choice for many different crops, including forage grasses

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,
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The World Forage Analysis Superbowl, held annually in conjunction with World Dairy Expo, provides forage producers the opportunity to showcase their high-quality forages from across North America
Farmers and landowners can get help identifying the price of hay, and/or negotiate the sale or purchase of standing hay through a new smartphone app that can quickly find hay price information
Hay stored on United States farms May 1, 2015, totaled 24.5 million tons, a significant 28 percent increase from one year ago
The sugarcane aphid is a new and widespread pest of both grain and forage sorghums in the southern U.S. In 2014, its presence was confirmed in 12 states

A lot of time,money and labor are invested in the production of a hay crop. Though mostfarmers feel a sense of relief once the last bale is ejected from the baler,there is unfortunately still plenty o