When you look at two neighboring alfalfa fields it is easy to think that all alfalfa varieties are created equal and that the differences are not very significant.

 More than just a few years ago a sugar factory was built at Moses Lake, Washington.

Just when you thought the dairy economic situation was getting some relief, at least with somewhat lower feed costs, thanks in part to some decent corn silage yields, Mother Nature stepped in.

Winter can be hard on alfalfa.

The DewPoint 6110 hooks up between a tractor and a large baler.

“I would like to see higher digestibility in our forages. We have always used a high-forage diet with our cows and any time we can get better digestibility, we can get more money without changing anything else.

 ‘What to grow?’ has been a questions producers have faced for thousands of years. For each one, the answer hinges on a mixture of variables that must be heavily considered each growing season.

I received instructions the other day to be available by 6:00 Saturday evening for a birthday party for now six-year-old Ashton. There were four generations at the party. Charlie and Lois did the honors as the great-grandparents. Also present were Grandpa Troy, the boom loader, and Grandpa Brad, the old hay hauler, and their respective spouses, to whom the grandchildren are the neatest thing ever to happen.