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Farm tests out smart-grid-like irrigation system

July 21, 2011

People are arriving home from work in the late afternoon, turning on their washers, dryers and ovens. Demand for power is peaking, so a utility puts in a call to a big farm: “Can you postpone irrigating your hay for a couple of hours?”

Lifting causes secondary back injuries for farmers

May 30, 2011

S. Dee Jepsen and Kent McGuire

In agriculture, farmers are always carrying objects from one location to another. The objects may range from a bag of seed corn to the planter, parts to a piece of equipment, buckets of feed to livestock, or to bales of hay.

Hydro power for gravity flow irrigation systems

May 16, 2011

Leif Kindberg

Roger and Shelley Barton own and operate Barton Farm in Ferron, Utah. The Bartons farm 120 acres of alfalfa and mixed grasses used for horse hay. They irrigate with a center-pivot irrigation system.

A sunny, hot day for making hay

May 15, 2011

Bruce Anderson

Some years it’s difficult to find decent haymaking weather. Sunny, hot, dry and breezy – that’s the prescription for good haymaking, along with using practices that can help the process.

Managing in difficult times by reducing production costs

April 12, 2011

As you prepare for the hay and forage harvesting season, there are many simple activities that you can do to reduce production costs according to Scott Sanford, University of Wisconsin-Extension senior outreach specialist.

Video: Savings Comparison from Inland Tarp

March 28, 2011

Inland Tarp provides a video describing savings comparison and return on investment over three years for small, mid-sized, and round bales. FG

Find more videos like this at the Inland Tarp YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/inlandtarp

Telling your story from the seat of a combine through social media

March 14, 2011

This presentation was made at the Vita Plus Custom Harvester Meeting, held Feb. 23-24, 2011 in Madison, Wisconsin. Click here to see all of the presentations from the meeting.

Alfalfa irrigation management

February 28, 2011

Steve Fransen

Mature, healthy and productive alfalfa stands have developed an extensive crown and root system, enabling the crop to withstand adverse climatic conditions such as drought.

Like labor and land, water should be managed

February 28, 2011

Water is a crop input that seems to fall free-of-charge from the sky. But specialists at Syngenta say there are definite costs associated with water, whether it comes directly from rainfall or through irrigation.

Cost of planting corn versus cutting first-crop alfalfa

February 28, 2011

Should you stop planting corn to get haylage in on time? First-crop alfalfa harvest is getting under way, yet there are still cornfields waiting to be planted.