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It’s hard to imagine winter is coming when fall is just beginning. However, preparing for the winter survival of your alfalfa stand begins now. Your late summer and fall alfalfa management strategy can have a large impact on spring regrowth and next year’s yield potential.
Humans are creatures of habit. We grow up believing and doing one thing without really giving it much thought. Take putting on pants for example: Do you put your right leg in first or your left? In many cases, it is the same with pasture management; it becomes a regular routine, and unfortunately, some practices shouldn’t.
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.
It’s a piece of equipment that probably isn’t on many Midwest farmers’ radars at this time, but could eventually be a new tool against the growing herbicide-resistant weed problem, says a University of Illinois crop scientist.
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.
Now is a good time to own farmland in most parts of the U.S., according to the latest cropland values report released by the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service on Aug. 5, 2015 – unless, of course, you want to farm in New Jersey, where cropland values hit a high of $13,500 average per acre.
Lori Bocher, agricultural information specialist with the U.S. Dairy Forage Research Center, announced the dairy forage seminar schedule for World Dairy Expo 2015 in Madison, Wisconsin.
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