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Voting opens Dec. 1 for our fifth annual photo contest! This year's contest includes dozens of entries in three categories:
1) Decorated hay bales
2) People or animals and hay
3) Hay equipment
Click here to visit the voting page.You can re-submit your vote daily, so come back again soon!
“Grass grows grass. Write that down in big bold letters,” said Dennis Hancock, at the recent Georgia Grazing School and Mid-Atlantic Dairy Grazing Conference in Moultrie, Georgia.
There isn’t a much more sickening feeling than to watch a group of hungry cows start falling over dead after feeding them a fresh bale of hay. Yet, that’s exactly what can happen when hay containing a high concentration of nitrates is fed incorrectly.
Due to the growing popularity of its 6R Series tractors to handle many farm, ranch and commercial chores and right-of-way maintenance, John Deere introduces three small-frame 6R models for 2015.
On Oct. 22, the USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) announced nearly $1.25 million in grants for research and extension to improve alfalfa and forage yield and seed yield of crops grown for propagation; improve persistence of plantings; reduce pest pressure for both forage and seed production; improve genetic quality of commercial cultivars; and reduce losses during harvest and storage.
If there were a snake in the truck, many readers would take advantage of the situation and let it eat the mice.
But there were plenty of other reactions to Progressive Forage Grower’s comical poll question: “If you find a snake in your truck cab, what do you do?”
There were 229,237 farms with 55.3 million irrigated acres in the U.S., according to the 2013 Farm and Ranch Irrigation Survey results, published on Nov. 13 by the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). The report also showed that the number of farms with irrigation declined from the 235,715 published in the 2008 irrigation survey.
According to the Terrace Standard, the Chinese plan to build an alfalfa protein extraction plant on the land they just purchased at the Skeena Industrial Development Park from the City of Terrace, British Columbia. The facility will employ 170 workers.
An award and a scholarship were presented at the Missouri Forage and Grassland Council / Grazing Lands Conservation Initiative (MFGC/GLCI) Annual Conference on Nov. 3.
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