The author is an extension agricultural economist with the University of Kentucky and a grass-finishing cattle farmer in central Kentucky.
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April 14 2025 Annual lespedeza is a warm-season legume that has been largely forgotten about in the past half-century
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Jan. 29 2025 Drought can be a debilitating experience for any farmer but is particularly difficult for livestock farmers
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Dec. 29 2023 Bale grazing in the eastern U.S. has its challenges compared to traditional, more Northern regions where the system is used
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Feb. 1 2023 When I was about 5 years old, I desperately wanted to become a farmer like my grandfather and uncle. At that time, my family was living in the suburbs outside a large metropolitan area
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Feb. 7 2022 Central Kentucky farmers Dave Burge, Dorris Bruce, and Beth and Brad Hodges have made major changes to their winter-feeding systems in recent years
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Dec. 31 2021 Imagine a hay feeding system where you do not have to use a tractor for months at a time while you also build up pasture fertility without applying commercial fertilizer
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Aug. 19 2021 In the April/May 2021 issue of Hay & Forage Grower, I wrote an article titled “How hay became a four-letter word.”
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April 15 2021 I’ve been waiting patiently for the inevitable to happen — for the word “hay” to morph into the word “haye,” or something similar
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Feb. 19 2021 As an extension economist for the College of Agriculture at the University of Kentucky and also someone who has been finishing cattle for the past nine years on my own farm, I have had the opportunity...