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The USDA reported sales from U.S. organic farms up 72 percent. According to the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) survey, however, organic acres are shrinking.
Welcome to the random ramblings and humble thoughts from an addled producer and agricultural advocate. I am a farmer and rancher from the northern Flint Hills in Pottawatomie County, Kansas, and a former county extension agent.
When producers think of managing soil nutrients in corn production, they likely think first of nitrogen and rightly so as it is the most common yield-limiting nutrient. But nitrogen is just the beginning of the story. Corn silage growers need to also test for and manage potassium, phosphorus and micronutrients to maximize yields and keep the soil productive over the long term.
Non-farming landlords, according to a recently released 2014 survey, own 80 percent of U.S. rented farmland. The report states, “In 2014, all of the landlords combined received $31.2 billion in rental income while incurring $9.2 billion in total expenses.”
Data can be a dangerous thing. Once you put numbers to a situation, it’s easy to misinterpret or misrepresent them so they say something quite different from what they originally meant.
Each producer has a method of choosing a hay rake based on several factors – hay quality, size of operation and desired ground speed. Hay production styles for a farmer with a mixed operation west of the Mississippi will most likely be different from that of a dairy farmer in the Eastern states. Producers must choose the rake type that provides the greatest value and hay quality.
A few weeks ago, an Ohio producer commented that this was a year like no other. He lamented that he finally took his first cutting of alfalfa July 4 and his second growth, after 30 days, was only 6 inches high and discolored.
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