The last time you bought a bag of lawn seed, did you examine the small print that lists the forage species and cultivars? Or when you purchased perennial seed to renovate a pasture, did you carefully note the species listed for each commercial seed mix?

Finances in a farm family are a revolving battle between using the money to replace the rickety old washing machine you’ve had since the ’90s or replace what’s soon to become a one-wire fence.

As forage growers continue to search for animal feed alternatives that are affordable and healthy, many are turning to grazing livestock on cover crops.

In the near future, the infrastructure of the power companies will not be able to handle the load. As we all know, it seems we are all at the end of the line when it comes to power.

I have often wondered, and have been asked several times, about the dollar value of poultry litter products as they relate to the cost of traditional rock fertilizers. I myself have used poultry litter in the past, with mixed results.

In the first article of this series (Picking apples off the grazing tree: When grazing isn't profitable), we went over extended-season grazing at a conceptual level to help understand that as we push extended-season grazing further into the winter,

“More advertising in agriculture should be directed at women. They’re making a lot of the financial decisions on farms.”

Healthy soil is the foundation for all successful agriculture and is made up of an aggregate of four primary components – minerals, organic matter, air and water.