Have you ever wondered which summer annual species and variety is best for your forage system? Often, varieties of forage sorghum, sorghum x sudangrass and pearl millet are chosen based on convenience and affordability, with less emphasis on quality and quantity.

What do you think about new ideas to grow and sell high-quality forage? Do you like to have new things soon after they are available? Or do you wait until a new concept is well proven and tested before you adopt it?

When I’m asked to speak to groups, one of the first topic areas selected is often “managing conflict.” I surmise that could be due to one of two things: Either they want to be prepared to handle conflict when it arises or they have a large amount of conflict that has already arisen.

Agricultural production faces a monumental challenge to meet the food demand of a world population of more than 9 billion people expected by 2050.

The engine ran with a miss, but the truck was cheap, so I bought it. It was a Ford C-600, the old tilt-cab version, 1962 model, I think. It was two-tone yellow and black. I thought the engine was Ford’s venerable 292 C.I. Y-block V-8, but when we went for parts, we found out that it was the larger 332 C.I. engine.

Because of the heavy loads forage growers handle, selecting the right tires for equipment is especially important. Insufficient tire capacity can result in tire damage or even tire failure.

‘Everything has its limit – iron ore cannot be educated into gold.’ —Mark Twain Everything has boundaries. While some limitations can be stretched, there are points beyond which no amount of training, adjusting, modifying or educating can reasonably alter a boundary.

When I was a kid, one of my favorite treats was a chunk of sugar and sour something-or-other with a Sweet-Tart label, if I remember right. It was the exact size and shape of a big old sulfa bolus.