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The Idaho Farm and Ranch Museum holds a Live History Day every September. At this event they showcase the history of rural Idaho, complete with their replica “provin’ up” shed and enough cream separators to supply butter to all of Jerome County.
Deere & Company announced a joint development agreement with Scherer Design Engineering Inc. to develop and commercialize kernel processing solutions for self-propelled forage harvesters.
The Midwest, blessed with rich soils and abundant precipitation, leads the country and the world in corn and soybean production. It also contributes the majority of the nitrate load in the Gulf of Mexico, leading to its large low-oxygen “dead zone.”
A U.S. district judge granted class action status in a lawsuit with Syngenta. The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration is told to go back to the drawing board on fertilizer facility safety rules. Crop inputs are being pressured lower by commodity prices. Read more on these and other news updates impacting forage production below.
Great Plains introduces new five-section chisel plow
To accommodate the needs of today’s large acreage farmers, Great Plains is expanding its line of heavy-duty chisel plows with a new Ultra-Chisel model. Ranging from 39 to 45 feet wide, the new five-section Ultra-Chisel offers wider working widths than the original models, which were released in 2015.
The unsavory truth is that the 21st century may be marked in history as the advertising age. Marketing has not always been unsavory, and it’s certainly not new. Christopher Columbus (Italian by birth) got Spain to finance his sailing explorations, and even though he missed his target destination, he has a national holiday designation and is mentioned in every history book.
Back in May, we had an excellent first cutting of hay, and farmers in our area of southeast Ohio had well above average yields. Many of us commented that when we have good yields, we usually need it, so many were preparing for the likelihood of a drought.
Optimum efficiency in hay production is important for profit generation, regardless of whether it is grown for ranch consumption or for sale. Hay harvest can become very inefficient if the wrong equipment and an inadequate number of people are used in the process.
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