Nov. 24, 2015
The average farm labor wage earned during the reference week of October 11 to 17, 2015, was $12.82 per hour, according to USDA's Farm Labor report released last week...

Nov. 24, 2015
In its 30th annual estimate of the cost for a Thanksgiving Day dinner, the American Farm Bureau Federation pegged this year's feast for 10 people at $50.11, up 70 cents from 2014...

Nov. 17, 2015
Below are examples of alfalfa and grass prices being paid FOB per ton (except for those noted as delivered, which is indicated by a "d" in the table below) for selected states at the end of th...

Nov. 17, 2015
Many of us in the North have already experienced consecutive November days of over 70°F. That really shouldn't happen. Though we can sarcastically point to El Niño, the National Oceanic and Atmosph...

Nov. 17, 2015
For the second consecutive year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) has allocated dollars for alfalfa research to the tune of $1.2 million...

Nov. 10, 2015
Researcher Russ Jessup has been working on the development of a dual-purpose, high-yielding grass that can be used for both forage and bioenergy. Jessup, a Texas A & M AgriLife Research grass bree...

Nov. 10, 2015
As the drought in California rolls through its fourth consecutive year, subsurface drip irrigation (SDI) of forage crops has garnered a lot of interest as a means to make more efficient us...

Nov. 10, 2015
Below are examples of alfalfa and grass prices being paid FOB per ton (except for those noted as delivered, which is indicated by a "d" in the table below) for selected states at the end of th...

Nov. 3, 2015
Stockpiling tall fescue in pastures for winter feeding is a common practice to help stretch stored forage inventories. Fescue forage quality can be very good, but John Jennings, University of Arkansas extension forage specialist, cautions that energy supplementation may be needed for lactating cows in late winter. He notes, however, that forage crude protein (CP) generally stays above cow requirements through the winter. Arkansas on-farm demonstration...

Nov. 3, 2015
The all hay price held steady for September at $145 per ton, while alfalfa hay dropped only $2 to $157 per ton from the previous month (see table). The prices were reported last week in USDA's Agricultural Prices report. For hay other than alfalfa, prices actually increased by $4 per ton to $119. The current value is only $6 per ton lower than September 2014 (data not shown). Alfalfa hay prices in most states showed minimal month-to-month changes. Exceptions were the...