Exceptional cattlemen are not always exceptional forage managers. But when the two enterprises do come together and are firing on all cylinders, it’s a marriage that yields remarkable results...
The annual release of hay and forage data that defines the previous year’s hay production and year-ending inventories arrived in email inboxes last week. The USDA’s Crop Production and Crop...
In an effort to beef up the productivity of existing pastures, one approach is to broadcast a mixture of fertilizer and seed in the same pass over the field. At the American Forage and Grassland...
Prudent farm managers generally don’t blindly cut expenses during challenging economic times; rather, they look for those places where eliminating costs will have little or no impact on crop yield...
Hay markets have been pretty boring for about the past year and a half. That’s not to say there haven’t been events that impacted markets locally or regionally, it’s just that the big picture ha...
There are many reasons why new forage seedings sometimes fail. Too much or too little moisture is always a concern, but moisture is beyond our control unless irrigation is in play...
The average price of U.S. alfalfa hay in November was pegged at $167 per ton, $4 per ton lower than October and $2 per ton below one year ago. The latest USDA Agricultural Prices report pegged other h...
