Growing alfalfa isn’t as easy as it looks, says Glenn Obermann of Monet, Missouri. “I don’t want anybody to go out and think they can just plant it and be successful.” He ought to know – he’s won the Missouri state hay competition three out of the last five years, and was runner-up the rest of the time.

Which mechanic are you? • You watch the calendar almost as religiously as the Super Bowl countdown – just XXX days before you haul that equipment to the field again, and by darn, you’re not about to get it ready until you absolutely have to.

It’s prediction time, when ag analysts and economists will try to predict what will happen this year. So it’s a good time to remind you that they have no idea what will happen. None.

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.

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.

“Don’t cross your eyes. They’ll get stuck that way.” Your mother said it; my mother said it; every mother everywhere said it. The premise was that one action, repeated over time, could have dire consequences.