Making strategic decisions around moisture content, weather conditions and equipment performance not only helps protect forage value and animal performance but also supports better outcomes across the entire operation.

McGraw decided to pivot and instead “do what the farm wants to do.”

Farmers in different western U.S. regions grow different types of alfalfa seeds to meet the needs of those regions and climates.

Sainfoin presents a compelling alternative for forage producers seeking to thicken old alfalfa stands or diversify their forage systems.

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By virtue of a leadership scholarship I’d inexplicably earned, I’d been invited to attend a special three-day preorientation function for a few hundred of the university’s “future leaders.”

Three of us were able to make it to Florida for the funeral after our brother-in-law, Ray Pivec, had passed away. Our sister had married late, and they had no children. I remember teasing her when she was at college, asking her if she was having trouble finding a boy she liked.