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One of the services offered by the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) is grazing management plans. These plans can be developed by a technical service provider (TSP).
Hinz Farms’ nutrient application system has been a work in progress. Year by year, co-owners Mike and Ben Hinz have tried new tools to increase the efficiency of spreading manure to fertilize the next year’s corn crop. This year, they are using an automated system that varies the ground speed of application based on the weight of the manure as it is spread.
In 2005, Kevin Spafford founded Legacy by Design, a succession planning firm dedicated to serving the succession planning needs of farmers, ranchers and agribusiness owners. You may recognize Kevin as the architect of the Farm Journal Legacy Project.
California dairy farmers are now in their fourth year of drought, and this has led to more forage sorghums being planted in the state. Forage sorghums can tolerate drought stress better than most other forage crops and respond well to limited- or deficit-irrigation strategies farmers can employ to save some water.
The 2015 growing season presented some challenges to hay making, and now livestock owners need to develop a management plan of how to best use that feed source. Here in Ohio, we had a window of opportunity to make some dry hay the week of May 18 and then possibly again in some parts of the state the week of June 1.
The Bighorn Basin of Wyoming is known for the three “B’s” – beans, beets and barley. Kevin Lewis and his wife, Renee, have been farming on the family farm since 1990, but they don’t follow the three B’s rule.
In alfalfa genetics, agronomy meets nutrition. Forage quality can significantly affect the value of the plant for animal nutrition. Crop management, protection from pests and seed genetics are vital for producers who want to maximize both yield and quality.
The winning forage at World Forage Analysis Superbowl in Madison, Wisconsin, in the Quality Counts Award (hay/haylage category) was a new low-lignin variety of alfalfa grown by Joe and Alice Berney of Berney Ranch Inc. from Okanogan, Washington.
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