Every year at the end of the harvest season, we hear, “Next year we are going to (fill in the blank); we just didn’t have time this year.” Now is the time to fill in that blank for corn silage. Here are five of the “blanks” that need to be filled in before harvest starts.

Market conditions for the week of July 31, 2015

A wet spring delayed first-cut haying in many areas of the country, and in many areas, farmers report they haven’t been able to catch up, many saying they’re still waiting to get the second cutting put up.

If you really want to know what people think, ask a child. Children have a unique way of being brutally frank because they haven’t been schooled in the art of filtering their thoughts. Ask any fourth grader and they will tell you that farmers are older, male, Caucasian, poor, dirty and uneducated.

Digi-Star has introduced the NT 8000i rate control system for manure spreaders. The product is a weight-based system that improves application efficiency by varying the unloading rate in proportion to ground speed.