Management
As crops come out of the field, manure application equipment typically begins going in.
Putting up hay can be expensive. Make sure you factor it in when pricing hay.
A hay fire is imminent if you detect these signs in your hay storage area
•Because most fires occur within six weeks of hay baling, be sure to monitor your bales daily during that time.
The radish serves as one of many cover crop options for a no-till operation.
During harvest, time is a valuable commodity for retailers and farmers. If your grain-truck driver can’t keep up, it might be necessary to hire more drivers.
Don’t let those fields sit idle. Use harvest as an excuse to improve your land for future use.
In addition to tillage and herbicides, other basic practices can help farmers manage weed seeds.
The run of near-record crop prices might be about to end, if not this fall then by harvest 2014, analysts say.