Hybrid selection is a key step for profitable production of silage and milk.

Providing nutrients is essential for producing profitable alfalfa yields. Throughout its growth alfalfa continuously depletes soil nutrients.

I mixed business with pleasure one day way back when, and it turned into a rather long day.

It’s World Ag Expo time again. I know that my wife is most looking forward to this year’s show because I won’t have to be absent on Valentine’s Day. I’m sure that might be a benefit to other producers, vendors and attendees. Here’s the top 3 reasons I’m looking forward to attending this year’s show.

Wide-swath haylage to achieve “haylage-in-a-day” and improve forage quality is a management practice we are hearing more about.

Way back when, a handful of us were eating at one of the roadside park-the-truck-and-take-your-chances places on the east side of Oregon State.

I think it was the winter after the rabbit plague in the 80s. Leo and his nephew David were hauling fairly steady to the ranches south of Mountain City, Nevada. Lyle and I were doing our best to keep the closer-to-home dairymen happy and in feed.

Will hay production remain profitable against current input prices? “At least for now, it has gone hand in hand.

If 2008 wasn’t an interesting year for the forage industry I don’t know what would be.

Alfalfa hay and other forage producers often become complacent when they hear the term “risk management.” Most often this is attributed to the misunderstanding that risk management programs relate only to managing financial risk via future, options, hedging, forward contracting or crop insurance programs.