Writer Amber Friedrichsen, Managing Editor

Amber Friedrichsen

The author is the managing editor for Hay & Forage Grower. Amber Friedrichsen joined the Hay & Forage Grower staff as an associate editor in May 2023. As of July 2024, she has assumed the role of managing editor. Friedrichsen also served as the editorial intern in 2021 and 2022. She graduated from Iowa State University in May 2023 with a double major in agricultural communication and agronomy. Friedrichsen grew up and worked on her family’s diversified crop and livestock farm in eastern Iowa near Clinton.

Get a sneak peek of corn silage quality

Forage Flash

Sept. 17 2024 In the order of operations of feeding dairy cattle, forage quality analysis tends to be the step in between storage and feedout

Soybean forage isn’t a fail-safe option

Forage Flash

Sept. 10 2024 Making soybean hay or silage is one way to combat drought conditions that thwarted a good grain harvest and limited the production of other forages

Four tips for fall horse pastures

Forage Flash

Sept. 10 2024 As cooler temperatures pump the brakes on plant growth in perennial pastures, grazing management must shift to accommodate the change of pace

Don’t let corn silage call in sick

Corn Silage

Sept. 3 2024 This spring, I seeded some container varieties of lettuce in planter boxes near a shaded area of my makeshift home garden. My harvest was far from fruitful and only afforded enough leaves to put

Nip forage nitrates in the bud

Forage Flash

Will it pay to play the late-cutting game?

Alfalfa

Aug. 27 2024 To cut, or not to cut. That is the question Hamlet would ask if only he were a forage producer and not a Shakespeare character. More specifically, the question would be to give alfalfa a longer rest a

Watch your asphalt

Forage Flash

Aug. 27 2024 The next few weeks will be a busy time for farmers and forage choppers who are harvesting corn for silage and taking final cuttings of alfalfa. Targeting moisture and maturity levels for these feed cr

Sound the fall armyworm alarm

Alfalfa

Aug. 20 2024 What comes to mind when you think about the fall of 2021? Is it the incredibly high fertilizer prices that more than doubled year-over-year? Or maybe it’s extremely sluggish supply chains for parts

Up your pasture quality game

Forage Flash

Aug. 20 2024 Nutritive value and forage quality are often used interchangeably, but they are not synonymous. If the terms were Russian nesting dolls, the former would fit inside the latter, representing one piece

Connecting the dots

First Cut

Aug. 19 2024 I’m not so much a fanatic of maps themselves, but rather the notion of travel and sense of place they represent

Bet on the right winter cereal

Forage Flash

Aug. 13 2024 Olympic athletes train and compete in the events for which they were built for. That’s why a long-distance runner likely wouldn’t medal in the 100-meter dash, and a sprinter probably couldn’t...

Highs and lows of the hay season

Hay

Aug. 6 2024 Producers play many roles during the hay season, and meteorologist is often one of them

A gritty issue in flooded fields

Forage Flash

Aug. 6 2024 Some of the same farmers who felt the death grip of a historic drought last year have faced torrential rainfall and excessive flooding this summer. Saturated soils and prolonged standing water have am

A push for grazing flexibility on public land

Grazing

July 30 2024 Grazing cattle can be easier and more effective when there is a plan to follow, but as most ranchers know, things don’t always go to plan. It can be even harder to adapt to ecological, environmental

Hay buyers beware of wire fraud

Forage Flash

July 30 2024 A Logan, Kansas, farmer was charged with wire fraud after scamming Montana and Wyoming cattle ranchers out of online hay sales. Jory Parks pleaded guilty to the arraignment and faces a maximum of 20 y

Root out compaction issues

Forage Flash

July 30 2024 A phone call to my dad went straight to voicemail the other day, only to be followed up a few hours later with a text that said, “Sorry I missed your call. The agronomist was here digging up corn...

Haytech takes bale storage to new heights

Alfalfa

July 25 2024 Technology is evolving faster than ever before, and farming technology is no exception

Deficit irrigation won’t be a silver bullet

Alfalfa

July 23 2024 Weighing the costs and benefits of an opportunity can be the first step in the decision-making process. Farmers know both sides of this scale hang heavy when that decision pertains to agricultur

How to harvest hail-damaged alfalfa

Forage Flash

July 23 2024 Much of the excess precipitation that has plagued the Midwest so far this summer has come in the form of severe weather. In addition to heavy rains, high winds, thunder, and lightening, these storm ce

Summer annuals buffer rain delays

Forage Flash

July 9 2024 So far this summer, many Midwesterners have had to sit on the sidelines of saturated crop fields. An abundance of rainfall has delayed hay cuttings, and without a solid stretch of dry days, some farme

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