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Today’s agriculture headlines and expert perspectives serving farmers, ranchers, crop consultants, livestock nutritionists and the entire U.S. ag community.
First cutting alfalfa harvest details make a positive difference.
As we enter this growing season, alfalfa fields are showing great potential for good tonnage production. Alfalfa can withstand temperatures as low as 20° F. However, several hours of 25 to 27° F or lower temperatures could damage leaf tissue and the alfalfa growing points.
Be careful how you answer that question. Cost and expense are two different things.
Proper storage methods can reduce losses and save forage and money.
Lawmakers last year submitted several bills seeking to regulate farm rides after a 2014 hayride crash in Mechanic Falls killed a 17-year-old girl and injured more than 20 others.
If you’re a hay farmer with an iPad, you can now use your Apple tablet as your in-cab display for your Harvest Tec 400T Automatic Applicator system.
Lower profit potential on irrigated ground will only look worse if La Niña comes calling this summer, dragging drought into the picture. Do any alternatives options for that land look lucrative?
The quality of hay can’t be judged by looking at it or touching it.
A new program aims to show livestock farmers in three states how to best graze their way to healthier animals, increased profits and cleaner waterways.
Krone announced Wednesday night that it would begin selling four lower horsepower models of their BigX Forage Harvesters in North America.
As crops come out of the field, manure application equipment typically begins going in.
The EasyCut TC 400 and EasyCut TC 500 are the newest models to join Krone’s lineup of mower conditioners.
The BiG Pack 870 High Speed (HS) HDP is the newest large square baler with Krone’s unique MultiBale technology.
Felling Dairy, Sauk Centre, Minn., took Grand Champion honors and was awarded a $2,500 check for its BMR corn silage entry in the World Forage Analysis Superbowl.
The Vermeer BW5500 bale wrapper is designed to give large volume hay operations and custom operators faster wrapping times and more operational control.
Designed with productivity, flexibility and convenience in mind, the MC4500 has a 15-foot (4.5-m) cutting width to meet the needs of large volume operators.
Added cow longevity makes it pay to graze for a New Zealand family transplanted to Missouri.
To bale or not to bale? That’s a question farmers face every year about wheat straw, which can be seen stacked in large quantities throughout Washington’s wheat country as harvest season ends.
Kubota expands Its prominence in the hay market with four new models.
Three new 8000 Series SPFHs utilize latest technology to reduce crop losses and boost performance.
The new Kuhn triple mower conditioner combination, FC 3525 D F front mount and FC 10030 D rear mount, gives you the ability to cut and condition up to 32’6” of crop in a single pass.
The GLBH-2072 is designed for tractor front loaders that use the Euro/Global quick attach system.
It is important to ensure hay moisture levels are correct before baling to prevent hot hay quality loss and the chance of fire.
With all the moisture in the Midwest and Southern Plains it might be a good time to consider baleage.
Europe has some similarities and differences when it comes to row crop farming compared to the U.S.