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This has been a nice fall. Abundant moisture and moderate temperatures have blessed many areas. Alfalfa has winterized well, and pasture growth has finished for this season.
And so it begins. On Monday, the U.S. Transportation Department announced the creation of a task force to develop recommendations for a registration process for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), commonly referred to as drones.
John Szczepanski, director of the U.S. Forage Export Council, told the National Hay Association members at their annual convention, “The new normal is bad. I wish I could paint a rosier picture.”
The children of Israel marked time and set their calendars based upon one defining event – the exodus from Egypt. Later, Christians tracked events and set their calendars based on the birth of Christ. Civilizations throughout history have marked time from one defining event or another. For David and Carolyn Carrier, the defining event upon which they compare everything else in their lives was the economy crash of the 1980s.
Meeting the nutrient requirements of a very high-producing dairy cow (more than 130 pounds of milk per day) requires high-quality forages as a foundation of the ration. Corn silage is playing a more important role in most dairy rations because of its high-energy content, high yield per acre and the consistency of feed quality coming out of the silo.
Commercial bale stackers can save valuable time during the busy hay-harvesting season, but the cost associated with retail equipment can often be prohibitive to many farmers. Faced with this dilemma, Washington farmer Rick Berens came up with a novel solution – he built his own bale stacker from scratch.
“Other hay” is moving down across all regions of the U.S., according to the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) for August reported prices.
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