Though hay stocks were whittled down from a winter of feeding and export shipments, it apparently wasn’t enough to prompt an upward January price trend. Just the opposite occurred. The recent USDA Agricultural Prices report pegged the January all-hay price at $137 per ton, $5 per ton less than the December average price and $12 lower than one year ago. January alfalfa hay prices retreated by $3 per ton from December to $147 per ton. This was $23 per ton less than...
Anyone who has grown and harvested alfalfa has seen the effects harvest machinery wheel traffic can have on a stand. Visually, it’s most noticeable a week to 10 days after harvest in the form...
Using livestock manure at appropriate rates on crop fields offers many advantages to the user, the soil and society. It makes all the sense in the world. Abusive overapplication of manure...
It’s no secret that alfalfa fixes significant amounts of nitrogen (N) that benefits a subsequent grass crop and reduces or eliminates the need to purchase N fertilizer. The amount of available...
“Accurately measuring pasture forage intake, whether warm or cool-season annuals, remains one of our greatest challenges,” says Nicolas DiLorenzo, beef specialist for the University of Florida...
Kay Ledbetter, Texas A&M AgriLife Communications Farmers in the South no longer can take for granted a healthy, productive sorghum crop — even for forage. While researchers and plant...
Forage testing is an ever-evolving industry. Whereas early forage testing results might only have had a half dozen tested parameters, today’s test is a plethora of metrics . . . and that’s j...
Across much of the Wheat Belt it is not uncommon to graze beef cattle on the vegetative growth through winter and then also harvest a grain crop from the same field...
The optimum time for frost seeding legumes and grasses into established pastures varies with region, and we’ve reached the point where that time line has started its migration north. Regardles...
In an apparent effort to save their own water, Saudi Arabia is buying farmland in the Southwest to grow alfalfa and ship it back to their country's dairies. According to the CNBC report...
