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I can’t drive through any county in rural America without seeing a worn roadside “hay for sale” sign, likely near other signs advertising the virtues of high-speed Internet and working from home.
Four U.S. senators are asking the U.S. Department of the Treasury to review ChemChina’s proposed purchase of Syngenta as it relates to U.S. national security and the American food system.
Throughout the past few years, drip and subsurface drip irrigation (SDI) have emerged as new opportunities for alfalfa growers looking to conserve water and other resources.
The number of times a parent says the word “no” in a day can feel almost endless. But as any parent or grown child knows, those “nos” are merely words of wisdom from someone who has, in a sense, “been there, done that.”
The quality of alfalfa hay is determined by its maturity at cutting, environmental conditions prior to and during harvest, and by handling and storage processes post-harvest. Environmental conditions vary from year to year and day to day, so calendar date is not a good predictor.
As we approach the spring and summer, producers tend to prepare for the hay production and grazing season of summer forage crops such as bermudagrass and bahiagrass. Due to the growing conditions in Mississippi, with average rainfall ranging from 50 to 60 inches annually, we do not pay much attention to water use by perennial summer forage crops.
In this political season, it is worth remembering that policies do matter. In the 2004 presidential campaign season, the most frequent discussion was about energy policy. In the years that have followed, the game has changed. A shift occurred in energy policies in the U.S. in several momentous ways, and because fertilizer prices are intimately linked to energy prices, this has had major impacts on fertilizer prices in the 12 years since.
Bob Barker, from Waverly, Iowa, says, “Leonard Rayhons told me way back when I was in high school, ‘Bob, make sure you marry a two-bucket girl.’ I looked at him puzzled and said, ‘What's a two bucket girl?’ Leonard, who was 80-plus years old, said, ‘A two-bucket girl is a girl that can do two or more things at once – helping on the farm, no matter what the job, wash your hog clothes without complaining, have lunches for the tractor, manage the house and be the glue of the family.’”
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