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Wisconsin dairy producers are increasingly adopting a practice that makes economic and environmental sense: They plant oats in early to mid-August and either allow cattle to graze them through late November or harvest the crop in early November for later use.
A number of universities and other organizations compile yield data from annual crop variety field trials. Crops tested varies by state. Data may be useful for seed and crop selection for the coming year. Check these websites for results in your area.
What’s a two-bucket gal? A two-bucket gal is a woman who can do two or more things at once: helping on the farm, no matter what the job; wash the family’s greasy clothes; have lunches ready; run the tractor, grain cart or whatever needs running; manage the house; and be the glue of the family.
Rock River Laboratory Inc. has released a breakdown report of lab results for mycotoxins in the 2016 harvest (Table 1), and it isn’t pretty. The breakdown includes percentages of mycotoxin breakdowns including aflatoxin, fumonisin, ochratoxin, vomitoxin, zearalenone, mold and yeast.
To look at any hay market price today is worth only that – today’s price. It’s like sitting in a car in a parking lot in that it doesn’t tell you anything about the road ahead.
Cash rent as a percent of farmland price sometimes is used as a benchmark for determining the appropriateness of a cash rent level. Over time, cash rents as percentages of land prices have declined, with declines corresponding to decreases in returns of interest-bearing financial assets. Until interest rates increase, cash as a percent of land price likely will remain at historically low levels.
The factors with potential to restrict global hay marketing that hatched last September came home to roost in USDA’s latest export report. Despite declining volumes and values, however, U.S. hay exports were still stronger than a year ago.
Like many areas, pasture productivity in Virginia is inconsistent. More often than not, we have a glut of grass in spring which is hayed from pasture only to be fed out later in the year – as early as September in dry years.
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