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It’s rearing its ugly head again – the public perception that the only thing alfalfa exports are good for is shipping water to Saudi Arabia or other countries.
Published June 4Follow-up question for author Jordan Milewski (New Holland): With wide weather swings and short hay-drying windows, conditioning and windrow width are playing a bigger part in successful hay harvests. What is perhaps the next most overlooked production practice that could help producers get hay up faster with better quality?
This is a monumental week at our house. Yes, basketball practice starts, but that is not it. We should have everything buttoned down and in place for the winter, and while that makes me happy, that is not it either. This week, Wednesday to be exact, Jennifer and I celebrate 20 years of wedded bliss. OK, so it has been 20 years of wedded bliss farmer-style.
You have probably played that children’s game where the first person tells a short story and one by one it is shared down the line until the last person hears a completely different story than the original. This is the issue with production agriculture.
When I was 6 years old, we got a pair of lambs. My dad built them a special shelter. I petted them, bottle fed them, put on little collars and broke them to lead. I would have slept with them if I could have snuck them past my mother and into the bedroom.
“Don’t cross your eyes. They’ll get stuck that way.” Your mother said it; my mother said it; every mother everywhere said it. The premise was that one action, repeated over time, could have dire consequences.
A theme is well-established from the equipment innovations found at Mt. Pony Farms in Culpeper, Virginia. Doing more with less labor is a big motivator for the Inskeep family when it comes to farm equipment modifications.
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