Editor’s note: Kevin Shinners has been an influential voice, inventor, and researcher during his 40-year career at the University of Wisconsin-Madison...

Preventive equipment maintenance is a frame of mind that can go a long way in impacting the year’s bottom line...

Custom rate guides are welcomed resources in those states that continue to do the survey legwork; unfortunately, many do not...

It may not seem like it, but first cutting is right around the corner. In fact, we’ve already started down here in the South with winter annuals...

Time seems to go by more quickly with each passing year. We are already halfway through winter, and it seems like just yesterday we were wrapping up last year’s harvest...

Now that cold weather has arrived, it offers plenty of time to work in the farm shop.Winter is the time to go over equipment from top-to-bottom and make sure it is ready for spring...

As harvest starts to wrap up, it’s time to get equipment cleaned and put away for winter. It’s also a time to make those dreaded phone calls to your certified public accountant (CPA)...

WHAT a year 2021 is shaping up to be. Commodities were “limit up” for a week straight, then two weeks later, “limit down” each day...

Large round bales are the preferred form of haymaking in many parts of the U.S., but they are difficult to load and process in mixer wagons unless the bales are first put through a grinder...

Every year, there is a lot of lodged forage due to delayed harvests caused by heavy winds and rain associated with severe storms...