After nearly 25 years of work, U.S. Custom Harvesters Inc. is welcoming a common-sense provision in the new highway bill. The Surface Transportation Reauthorization Act has been signed into law.

New information on www.section179.org reports the following: "The Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes (PATH) Act of 2015 has been passed by both the House and Senate and will be signed into law in the next few days – expanding the Section 179 deduction limit to $500,000.

According to Reuters, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has filed a motion, asking courts to withdraw registration of Dow Chemical Co.'s new herbicide, Enlist Duo, as the agency studies new information regarding the product's impact on non-target plants.

Deere & Co. today said it has informed approximately 220 employees at John Deere Seeding and Cylinder in Moline, Illinois, that they will be placed on indefinite layoff, effective Feb. 15, 2016.

The USDA Economic Research Service (ERS) expects a 38 percent drop in farm income in 2015. This would be the steepest year-on-year drop since 1983.

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.

1. How windrow width impacts hay quality

Published June 4 Follow-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?