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A low-lignin alfalfa variety, Hi-Gest by Alforex, topped the Quality Counts Hay/Haylage category at the World Forage Analysis Superbowl, held in conjunction with World Dairy Expo in Madison, Wisconsin.
About 35 years ago, Jack Hudson of Dafter, Michigan, decided he wanted to farm. He chose to grow birdsfoot trefoil and raised as much as 1,000 acres at one point.
For many forage producers in the Northeast, the weather has finally given a window to mow late-planted peas and oats for baleage. In fact, a lot of hay has been made into baleage this year all over the country, and some of that was put up just a bit too wet.
Monitoring the amount of bare ground, plant diversity, worms in times of moisture and the smell and feel of the soil will give quick indicators of a ranch’s below-ground health. But Kate Vogel, an agronomist with North 40 Ag consulting in Ballentine, Montana, says digging a little deeper will provide more meaningful measurements of soil health.
What lengths would you go to for a new baler? To have a little fun, I posted this question on an ag online forum. Assuming cash was not involved, and tongue-in-cheek, one Missouri producer said, “My wife, my kids and the dogs – well, maybe not the dogs.
A key to profitable forage livestock production is to provide adequate nutrients for good forage growth. Fertility requirements for a hay or silage crop are vastly different than for grazed forages, even if the pasture and hay crops are the same species.
I’m sitting here looking at my “smartphone.” I’ve heard it said there is more technology and computing power in that phone than went to the moon on Apollo 13. But some days it doesn’t make me feel so smart.
In many areas of North America’s farm country, today’s farmers are contending with drought, depleted aquifers or demands on water from other forms of use.
A man of sincere beliefs, Neal Fehringer is not a fundamentalist. However, when it comes to producing forage crops, it is the fundamentals that have built and sustained his professional agronomy business in south-central Montana.
At some point, everyone wonders about the current state of technology in his life, and some conclude that mankind has peaked and will go no further. Charles H. Duell, who was the commissioner of the U.S. Patent Office in 1899, is famously credited with the following quote: “Everything that can be invented has been invented,” which, it turns out, he did not actually say – but the point is well taken.
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