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You likely have seen a seed sales pitch on high-sugar forages or high-sugar grass and legume mixes. Then follows the question: Why should you produce sweet forages? The simple reason is that cows prefer it, will eat more and thus produce more milk or gain with improved nitrogen use efficiency, which means reduced nitrogen loss to the environment.
Tampa, Florida, is known for a lot of things, like citrus, strawberries and prime real estate, but one doesn’t usually associate the peninsula’s agriculture with alfalfa.
Water is rapidly becoming a scarce item, particularly in the southwestern U.S. Fortunately, people are doing more than sitting and worrying about the dilemma. Water conservation project plans are being written and executed throughout the area.
Plastic-wrapped round bale silage (also know as baleage) is harvested forage preserved by anaerobic fermentation of sugar and starch in the forage-making acids that lowers pH levels and preserves the forage.
I just explained to Feather, our Lab/cow-dog cross, that if marshmallow “Peeps” are not the traditional Easter colors of yellow or pink, then you don’t have to wait until Easter to eat them.
If you’re looking to replace tires on your irrigation system, the decision can be daunting when balancing it with farm income. Whether your problem was flats, ruts or something else, there’s likely a tire solution that can alleviate those issues.
On a pleasant day in March, I arrived in Red Deer, Alberta, for the annual Western Canadian Dairy Seminars. It is always a week where I know I am going to learn something, but heading in I don’t usually know what exactly it will be.
Across Canada, women and girls from all walks of life, at all skill levels, enthusiastically reach for their goals through sport. To achieve. To improve. And for some, to simply have fun.
