Oct. 8, 2024
A total of 207 entries from 12 states made up the playing field for the 40th annual World Forage Analysis Superbowl. Winners were announced and awards were presented last week at World Dairy Expo in M...

Oct. 8, 2024
World Dairy Expo is known as the meeting place for the global dairy industry. It’s also an event for haymakers from across the country to come together and learn about the latest equipment, test out...

Oct. 1, 2024
How does your brain work? Are you of the analytical ilk or are you more of a creative thinker? Do you articulate your thoughts in words or would you rather work with numbers? Temple Grandin, for...

Oct. 1, 2024
The end of the line for alfalfa growth is usually when plants experience a hard freeze. This weather event can be defined by temperatures dropping below 25ºF for more than four hours, and some region...

Oct. 1, 2024
Rye is a staple forage in Southern pastures. Well, ryegrass, that is — not cereal rye. More specifically, annual ryegrass is the crop in question, not the perennial kind. And just to be clear, we ar...

Sept. 24, 2024
One of the favorite parts of my job is getting to visit farms all over the country. Having boots-on-the-ground experience in hay and pasture systems across the U.S. is the best way to acquire un...

Sept. 24, 2024
Wabasha, Minn., may ring a bell as the setting of the 1993 comedy film “Grumpy Old Men.”...

Sept. 17, 2024
December 1 is the deadline to sign up for pasture, rangeland, and forage (PRF) insurance for the 2025 calendar year. This subsidized program can help mitigate forage production losses due to low...

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...

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...