A Hawaii federal judge recently ruled that a Maui County law banning GMO crops is invalid because it is preempted by federal and state law.

As summertime starts to heat up and the first (or in some cases second) cutting of hay is nearing completion, I know there are many farmers looking ahead to harvest season.

Hay is one of the most complex and challenging commodities when it comes to pricing. Unlike other feedstuffs such as grains or byproducts, hay may come from various plant sources, each with a different feeding value.

Numbers. Nearly everybody hates them, but everybody needs them. This is becoming particularly true in a competitive agriculture industry where crop prices have steadily declined over the past few years.

Silage avalanches are real, and there is no way to predict when and where they will occur. It only takes a fraction of a second for part of a silage face to silently break off and fall, and the result can be deadly for anyone located beneath it.

Andy Schuepbach, a Hereford breeder in southern Alberta, has been utilizing two varieties of ryegrass to provide fall and winter feed. High protein content eliminates the need for any other protein source.

At the 2015 California World Ag Expo, there was a “house” built out of every variety of straw grown in Oregon’s Willamette Valley. A sign boasted, “The house that straw built.”

Bermudagrass is the most persistent and dependable warm-season forage crop grown throughout the southern U.S., found from eastern Texas and Oklahoma across the region to the Atlantic Ocean, with nearly 28 million acres currently estimated to be utilized for both hay and grazing.

Why interseed alfalfa into bermudagrass?

1. Grow your own nitrogen. 2. Increase the quality of your forage (+30 or more RFQ points).

Fermentation of whole plants or plant parts has been around for thousands of years, but there is still this mystical fog among most people about the whole process.