Reinventing a person is hard work – and that’s just one person.

A long time back in 1620, a Baptist minister with the last name of Holmes moved away from England to find religious freedom. He and his sons ended up on a 900-acre, land-grant farm at Cream Ridge, New Jersey.

Sorghum has been referred to as the lazy man’s crop. That isn’t a reflection on anyone’s work ethic, but rather refers to the fact that there are multiple ways to harvest or feed sorghum and any one of them will wait in the field without detriment to the crop at the expense of (or while possibly losing) another crop.

Triticale is the result of crossing wheat and rye, combining the nutritional value of the wheat and the rapid growth, heat tolerance and hardiness of rye. It was originally discovered back in the late 1800s, although it wasn’t until the 1960s that it was available commercially.

Alfalfa isn’t always an obvious choice for hay growers, particularly in areas where other forages like fescue grow cheaply and easily. In cases like that, the value of growing alfalfa isn’t always an obvious choice, but after investigation, it easily becomes an economic choice.

Finding new customers is an issue many business owners struggle with – and hay buyers and sellers are no exception. So how do you find new customers?

Alfalfa is one of those animal foods that are kind of taken for granted as it is so plentiful – it seems to be used everywhere, for all types of animals. But believe it or not, there are actually a lot of uses for alfalfa that have nothing to do with cows.

Neils Haslam is an innovator who works with Delmhorst and Idaho Instrument in Twin Falls, Idaho.