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Summer annual forage grasses often are an important part of many hay, silage and pasture plans. Sudans and sorghums can produce much forage even under dry growing conditions. However, these forages tend to be more stemmy and less digestible than many cattle and cattle producers prefer.
The term relative forage quality (RFQ) has been around for about a decade, yet not everyone understands the difference between RFQ and relative feed value (RFV).
“Whenever RFV and RFQ are different, RFQ is the better value to use,” says Dr. Dan Undersander, extension and forage agronomist with the University of Wisconsin.
A majority of growers and other agricultural professionals turn to online sources first for general information about their industry, and over half of them use mobile or handheld devices 10 or more times per workday.
These are some of the key findings in a recent Syngenta survey, in which more than 300 readers of Thrive, the company’s production-focused magazine and website, responded to questions about their online habits and appetites.
Planting certain crops may help contain nitrogen, preventing it from contaminating drinking water. That’s what a group of researchers are studying in northwest Iowa, according to an Associated Press article.
Dr. Mark Boggess has been selected as the new director of the U.S. Dairy Forage Research Center in Madison, Wisconsin, beginning May 19. The center operates under the umbrella of the USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS). Boggess has been with ARS since 2009 as a national program leader in Beltsville, Maryland.
The 2014 Farm Bill has given farm owners the opportunity to re-allocate base acres. We asked our online readers if they will elect to make changes on their farm.
What Is the Issue? Farm businesses’ debt-use decisions can affect their growth and survival, as well as the economic vitality of farm-dependent rural communities. Thus policymakers, agricultural lenders and other farm-sector participants closely follow trends in farm debt.
Alfalfa stands thin out over time, often slowly but sometimes suddenly. And as stands decline, tonnage and economic returns decline with them. When yield gets too low, the usual suggestion is to plant new fields to alfalfa, but sometimes factors like the immediate forage need, the cropping plans or field location make this suggestion undesirable.
Farmers and ranchers need tax certainty to thrive in a modern economy, and making permanent deductions that expired in 2013 is a good first step, the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) recently told the House Ways and Means Committee.
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