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By slashing planting time from weeks to just five days, Clayton Griffith’s switch to no-till aims to ensure sustainability while navigating the challenges of Alaska’s short growing season.
Farm machinery manufacturers are releasing details on Model Year 2026 balers and hay tools that feature increased automation, data integration and enhanced designs to help cover more acres in a single day.
Missouri Extension State forage specialist Carson Roberts suggests four alternatives that could be more economical than growing hay for your animals.
Obsessing over rain, or the lack of it, is a skill every farmer has mastered. Here are 20 phrases you’ve likely muttered more than once.
Hear from the likes of AGCO, Claas, John Deere and others about what each farm equipment manufacturer is planning to invest in its U.S. manufacturing footprint.
Two new tech-packed forage harvesters are coming to the North American market, and a group of specialty crop-focused tech companies announce new capabilities and development partners.
About 45% of U.S. corn production acres and 36% of the soybean ground are dry. The western Corn Belt needs moisture, in particular. A big, wet snowstorm could help, says Eric Snodgrass.
These steel and rubber Swiss Army knives offer many of the features of higher horsepower machines in a smaller, easier-to-use tractor.
The addition of weave automation allows less reliance on operator skill to make a uniformed bale and streamlines the baling process.
As teenagers, Dave and Jean Gottenborg dreamed of owning a cattle ranch. After decades of delay, they finally achieved their dream. Today, they raise cattle and sell award-winning beef and hay at Eagle Rock Ranch.
New Holland Agriculture has announced an expansion of its implement product lines by way of its acquisition of the Grass and Soil business of Kongskilde Industries, part of the Danish Group Dansk Landbrugs Grovvareselskab. This business develops, manufactures and sells tillage, hay and forage implements under various brand names.
The companies issued reports on the first quarter of 2013 this morning, including projections about Tier 4 Final expenses.
As drought plagued the West and Plains in 2021, grasshoppers took over many pastures and crops, which demolished grasses and hayfields. In the South and Midwest, fall armyworms were a costly battle for farmers.
Hay that has been cut and then rained on can lose quality in four ways.
If pasture, rangeland or forage is important to your farm’s success, insurance could be a valuable risk-management tool.
Weeds can reduce the quantity and the stand life of desirable forage plants in pastures and hayfields.
Freshly baled hay with more than 20% moisture will heat up and actually reduce the energy level of the hay.
Supply is currently outpacing demand. If that continues hay prices will remain relatively the same.
With portions of the U.S. experiencing severe, extreme and exceptional drought conditions, farmers are posting photos showcasing just how much of an impact the lack of rain is having on their fields.
With the start of spring comes the start of allergy season, but not for some farm kids, researchers say.
A farm aid nonprofit is launching an effort to deliver donated hay to ranchers in flood-stricken Nebraska, resurrecting a program first used nearly two years ago to help cattle producers facing drought conditions.
Although spotty, there are signs of stabilization underway in portions of the Corn Belt farmland market.
The North Dakota Department of Agriculture looking for trucking donations to move hay for their hay lottery.
We need to be cognizant at all times of the potential for fires to start while baling hay or straw and take measures to minimize the potential of a fire occurring.
A punishing drought that stretches across much of the U.S. Northern Plains could cause farmers to lose 64 million bushels of wheat production this year, according to federal officials.
Crops and pastures continue to suffer in North Dakota as drought persists.